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Steve Bannon’s Plan to Save the World
I’m going to try something new here. I’m going to take a leaf from @alexandraerin’s book, sort of. Erin pointed out recently that Twitter threads get shared much more widely than blog posts, because...
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The Gorton By-Election: Winning Here?
As some of my readers are aware, I live in the Manchester Gorton constituency. After the sad death of its MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, last week, there will be a by-election. And I think it’s possible –...
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Why Gorton is Winnable
I wrote a few weeks ago, after Jackie Pearcey was selected for the Lib Dems in Manchester Gorton, that I think she stands a decent chance of winning the seat. Certainly the bookmakers seem to agree now...
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All I’m Going to Say on this Election Here
That title may surprise some of you, but I’m serious. I plan on having one post, and one post only, on here about the election, at least up until election day itself. I have already had an intense...
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Why You Should Vote on Thursday
This is, sort of, a post about the General Election, but it’s not going to be a partisan one, so I don’t think I’m breaking the spirit of my resolution not to write about it. It’s also more about local...
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On Progressive Alliances
I know, I know, I said I wasn’t going to write about the general election. Unfortunately, when you spend all day every day campaigning, as I have for the last few weeks, you end up with no thoughts in...
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Useful Tool for Lib Dems
I’m going to do a proper post tomorrow, but thought I’d signal-boost something Penny Goodman told me about just now. One of the things I’m most worried about this election is that while the Lib Dems...
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Lib Dem Manifesto Analysis
So I just received an email pointing me to some PDFs containing visions of how the world could be, discussions of positive social justice, and some material on obscure voting systems. But enough of the...
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Why Tim Needs to Stay as Leader After the Election
It’s fair to say that the Lib Dems haven’t had the best election campaign. And it hasn’t been helped by continual briefing from unnamed “Senior Lib Dem Figures” (whose names any Lib Dem could tell you)...
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On Empathy
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the neurotypicals are at it again. Tomorrow is Autism Pride Day, so of course today Twitter has been dominated by responses to a stupid tweet from a...
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