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To Tackle Inequality, the Liberal Democrats must reach out to Working People
September 14, 2017 11:11 PM
Britain is deeply divided. The harsh economic realities of Brexit are beginning to be known. Years of austerity have weakened the public sector. Personal debt levels are out of control, while the financial sector appears to have failed to learn the lessons of the 2008 crisis. Even workers at...
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The Dangers of Learning from History
August 09, 2017 7:11 AM
Conventional wisdom tells us if we don't know our history we're doomed to repeat it. But in politics the risk of fighting yesterday's battles means we should treat historical lessons with caution - and remember that the “will of the people” can change quickly.
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2017 William Beveridge Lecture: Is a liberal and democratic society compatible with globalization?
July 23, 2017 12:03 AM
First delivered at the Social Liberal Forum Conference on 15 July 2017
Dani Rodrik, one of my favourite economists – a Turk teaching at Harvard – wrote some five years ago that we may be discovering that democracy is not compatible with unconditional globalization; and that if we have to...
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Northern Discomfort: SLF Chair, Helen Flynn, replies to Michael Mullaney 's article
June 25, 2017 7:51 AM
Having had something of a break over the General Election period, the SLF is back with its nose to the grindstone, publishing new content to stir the interests of liberals – in particular social liberals – everywhere.
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Jeremy Corbyn just won 40% of the vote on a Social Liberal Platform
June 14, 2017 8:32 AM
OK, not every part of the Labour manifesto was Social Liberalism, that’s true, but it’s worth pointing out that while Corbyn may talk the talk of Socialism the Labour manifesto didn’t walk the walk.
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A Progressive Alliance can stop the Tories at the next General Election
June 12, 2017 7:37 AM
The 2017 general election has delivered one of the biggest upsets in modern British electoral history. Far from winning a landslide majority, Theresa May just narrowly failed to get any majority at all. Now the Conservative Party is in hock to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Britain is now being...
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Strengthening a Progressive Alliance: what can social liberals bring to the party?
May 02, 2017 8:01 AM
Talk of progressive alliances is all around us. The fear of five years of right-wing Tory rule with the prospect of a hard Brexit, regressive environmental policies and growing inequality, and all the serious social and economic consequences that will bring has been the stimulus for the initiatives.
As the SLF statement asserts:
“We...
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Progressives in different parties must work together
April 25, 2017 12:12 PM
As the most important General Election for a generation approaches, the Social Liberal Forum are calling on people across the UK’s progressive parties to work together to stop a Conservative landslide victory and the hard Brexit that would follow.
We call on members of the Liberal Democrats, Labour, the Nationalist parties, the two...
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Five Radical Policies for the Liberal Democrats in the General Election
April 19, 2017 7:41 AM
With an early general election called for 8 June, it is vital that the Liberal Democrats offer a radical policy platform to the country. Europe will obviously be a central issue in the election campaign. However, it is not enough just to be an anti-Brexit party. The Lib Dems must...
