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Debt and Security - A social liberal response to the spending review
November 28, 2015 10:00 AM
The central claim of the Chancellor’s much-anticipated spending review was that it would deliver economic security. Much of the debate since those opening remarks has focussed on his u-turn over tax credit changes, and on the dire response by John McDonnell that saw Mao's Little Red Book racing towards...
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Tory obsession with Budget surplus harmful to most vulnerable… and the economy
November 26, 2015 10:20 AM
After George Osborne’s Autumn statement, Prateek Buch gives the Social Liberal Forum’s response.
The Chancellor’s Autumn statement made this Tory government’s priorities clear: achieving a budget surplus matters far more than avoiding a crisis in social care and further education. Osborne's obsession with rolling back the state is weakening the very foundations...
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Waiting for Godot: or anticipated reform?
October 21, 2015 11:55 AM
The General election of 2015 in the UK has variously been described as ‘the death of liberalism’ or ‘the death of the Labour party’ and so on. Might it not be better, more accurate too, simply to refer to it as The Death of Politics – certainly for a...
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What kind of Keynesianism? Some reflections on Liberal history
October 01, 2015 12:16 PM
This is a guest post from Peter Sloman who is a lecturer in British politics at the University of Cambridge.
I read Simon Radford’s series of articles on liberal economics after the crash with a mixture of agreement and frustration, so I am grateful for the opportunity to respond with...
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A Progressive Alliance
September 29, 2015 9:55 PM
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A social liberal's response to overtures to the 'left'
September 18, 2015 8:02 PM
Rejoice! After nine long years as one of those formerly derided as a 'trot' at federal party conference by a Special Advisor to Nick Clegg, I awake today ahead of conference to find I can come in from the cold. No longer are we progressive, lefty lib dems to...
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How The Liberal Democrats Should Respond to Jeremy Corbyn
September 15, 2015 7:15 AM
The almost impossible has happened. The left wing rebel MP, Jeremy Corbyn, has been elected to lead the Labour Party. From being an absolute outsider, Corbyn has seen a huge surge in support over recent weeks that has been so great, that he won Labour’s leadership election in the first...
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Liberalism
September 10, 2015 8:31 AM
By Nigel Dower
The following essay forms part of the book “Unlocking Liberalism”, edited by Robert Brown, Gillian Gloyer and Nigel Lindsay. The author has kindly given permission for the Social Liberal Forum to reproduce it here.
Introduction
In the chapter I defend a version of liberalism which...
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Congratulations, Tim!
July 16, 2015 9:01 PM
The Social Liberal Forum warmly welcomes the new Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron MP.
Throughout the leadership race, Tim showed his concern for social justice and for ours to be a campaigning Party. We are looking forward to working with him as the head of a progressive movement...
