Opinion: A radical approach to welfare – forget changing benefits
The word ‘radical’ is to welfare reform what a pot of paint is to a wall full of cracks. The less you really know what to do to fix things, the more you slap it about all over the place in the hope...
View ArticleAn open letter to Jeremy Browne MP on civil liberties… Part 1: The failed...
Dear Jeremy I doubt that in amongst all the ludicrously large number of issues that pass across the desk of a minister, and a Home Office one no less, you will have noticed a small victory I scored...
View ArticleAn open letter to Jeremy Browne MP…Part 2: Problems at the Home Office
Dear Jeremy, In part 1 I explained why the Interception of Communications Commissioner is a failed regulator and one the Home Office should be fixing, yet your civil servants have been reluctant to do...
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Opinion: Adonis’s complaint – Ashdown was not mind-numbingly stupid with the...
Andrew Adonis’s account of the days after the public voted in a hung Parliament in 2010 have already received a rightful savaging by Andrew Stunell. Given that we already know the Mandelson/Balls...
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Opinion: The best government team you’ve not heard of
The best performing team in government is also one you’ve probably not heard of. It’s the Government Digital Service, who have been revolutionising central government’s use of the internet – providing...
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Typing – an important skill that we neither teach nor require
Recently I was sat in a GP’s surgery waiting for him to type out a prescription for me. Until that point I had been nothing but impressed with his patience and knowledge. Then I saw how painfully...
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Opinion: Syria – I know what’s wrong; working out what’s right is rather harder
It is easy to work out what I disagree with on Syria. The absurd politics of those on the left who have never lifted the smallest placard in protest again Assad’s wide scale murders but break out a...
View ArticleOpinion: California Governor’s success is a promising sign for Nick Clegg’s...
Jerry Brown, American pioneer of small-donor funded, technologically innovative, grassroots Presidential campaigns (see 1992 and his use of freephone numbers), three times failed Presidential candidate...
View ArticleE-voting coming back to life?
The announcement last month by House of Commons Speaker John Bercow of a commission on digital democracy has kicked the debate over e-voting back to life in the UK. For many years it has been a rather...
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Eliminating the structural deficit is aiming for the wrong target
There is an appealing simplicity behind the idea of having a zero structural deficit. It is the policy the government is committed to, including the Liberal Democrats. And it’s also wrong. But the...
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What the Liberal Democrats believe
“Tell me more about what the Liberal Democrats believe”. Whether it’s a possible new member, a potential council candidate or a new office volunteer asking, I’ve always found over the years that one of...
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