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Is Nick Clegg resorting to Megaphone Diplomacy?
June 24, 2013 9:31 AM
Nick Clegg’s speech to the ALDC Conference in Manchester this weekend was trailed - these things rarely happen by accident – as ‘taking on his internal party critics’. In it, Clegg seems to set out a choice: ‘to become a firm party of Government... striving to govern at every level in order to make Britain a better pla -
Conference motion on Race Equality
June 24, 2013 8:44 AM
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Low pay, tied pubs and the need for reform
June 18, 2013 9:07 AM
SLF backs the Fair Deal for your Local campaign and publishes research showing reform will save Government money by lifting licensees out of poverty pay. The plight of publicans in the tied pub sector has been increasingly regularly documented in recent years, thanks largely to the single-minded determination of Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland and the All-Party Parliamentary Save The Pub Group. The facts, in a nutshell:- Around half of Britain’s 55,000 pubs are owned by big property compan
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Social Liberal Forum Scotland Conference
June 14, 2013 3:04 PM
The Social Liberal Forum (Scotland) is holding a Conference in Glasgow on Saturday June 29. Our speakers this year include Craig Harrow the Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrats The sessions will include:- Skivers or Strivers: the causes of poverty in Scotland
- Independence, the debate we aren’t having?
- The Coalition, the record and the future
- Building the Party through 2017
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Liberalism and the Free Market
June 14, 2013 9:58 AM
Reflecting on the departure of Baroness Margaret Thatcher and on her ideology (often described as “neo-liberalism”), it is a paradox that an individualist should put so much faith in an institution – the market. To paraphrase her much quoted remark that there is “no such thing as society ... there are individuals and families”, might we use the same logic in our approach to economic thinking? There is no such thing as “the market” in a sense that it has a personality of its own: what we call a -
On fear, preemptive withdrawal symptoms and a sense of perspective
June 12, 2013 9:09 AM
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On wages, income and employment – would stronger unions solve our economic crisis?
June 04, 2013 3:00 PM
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Liberal Democrat MPs should vote on June 4th to support new investment in clean energy
June 02, 2013 1:00 AM
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SLF/EMLD race equality conference - live
June 01, 2013 12:19 PM
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