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Opinion and commentary on UK politics and Liberal Democrat ideas.
Moving the Overton Window – and the Implications for Women
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Barbara Lindsay was an inspirational Liberal Party and Liberal Democrat activist who sadly died in 2024. This is her last article. Recent conversations on language have reminded me of the ‘Overton Window’ characteristics of the shifts in the language used by GC (gender critical – believers in biological reality) people. (For anyone not familiar with this, the concept was devised by American policy analyst Joseph Overton.) The width of the window encompasses the breadth of acceptable opinion within a group, or society at large. As its activist members promote an aim and seek to push the majority towards its adoption,…
Liberal Democrats and Nuclear Weapons
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For decades, Kevin White was the party’s leading peace campaigner. His death last year came as a shock to his friends and party colleagues. In the following article he sets out his view on the party’s defence stance. The LibDems have sadly turned from being a party of peace into one with a bellicose similarity to the Tory and Labour parties when it comes to defence and disarmament. In the time of the old Liberal Party we were committed to working with international institutions, but today we stand against signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and…
The LibDems in 2026 – A Progressive Force or a Forgotten Postscript?
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Strange times indeed. The Labour government is imploding with a leader who looks like a dead man walking and recent (January 23rd Politico Poll of Polls) support at 18%. The Conservatives are directionless and leaking influential members, with support equal to Labour at 18%. Reform is out in front on 29%, while the Greens and LibDems are on 14% and 13%, respectively.
