Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2026

Europe’s coffin-makers warn Chinese imports could be death knell for industry

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Embed from Getty Images Thanks to a sharp-eyed Liberal England reader, Politico wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Saturday, October 24, 2026

The Joy of Six 1596

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Chris Grey detects "an upsurge of discussion about whether and how the UK could join (or 'rejoin') the EU, whether that would ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes

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This review appears in the new Liberator – issue 435. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. The Shortest Hist...
Monday, May 04, 2026

The Joy of Six 1513

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"The taboo around the word 'membership' has been maintained not by principle but timidity. Farage built his project on lies. Th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The Joy of Six 1507

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"These settings are not registered – as they should be by law – with Ofsted. They are meant to be temporary, but a recent report by the...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Ed Davey flattens Nigel Farage on human rights

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On 29 October last year, Nigel Farage put forward his European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal) Bill. You can read his speech in Han...
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Thursday, February 05, 2026

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"Without doubt, information provided during the height of the global financial crisis by a senior Member of the British Government, wil...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

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"Sounding like a mob boss when speaking at Trump’s press conference at the weekend, secretary of state Marco Rubio told the world that ...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

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"At present the Tories are making the same mistakes as their continental cousins – aping the rhetoric and policies of the further right...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

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David Howarth says Liberal Democrats should attack Brexit, not just "the Tories' botched Brexit deal". "Many have had to...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Those Labour MPs who voted for (and against) the Lib Dem customs union bill in full

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Embed from Getty Images Labour List has helpfully printed the names of the 13 Labour MPs who voted for the Liberal Democrat customs union b...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Peter Kellner: The pro-Brexit majority of 2016 has literally died out

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Huffington Post had gone behind the New World (formerly New European) paywall and emerged with a story about the level of public support fo...
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Monday, December 08, 2025

The Joy of Six 1446

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Cicero's Songs , making a welcome return, has naught for your comfort: "The decadence of the American Empire is upon us, and the co...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Lord Bonkers' Diary: A phone number for the Overton-Window twins

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So that's what Lord Bonkers was up to on Bournemouth Beach! I did wonder. We all wish the Liberal Democrat team well, but having seen on...
Monday, October 20, 2025

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"By learning from Farage, the Greens risk becoming more like him in form, even if utterly different in content. And in politics, form m...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Ed Davey: Brexit has been a disaster and Starmer must find the courage to change course

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Ed Davey has a comment piece on the Guardian website this afternoon, which will presumably be in tomorrow's paper: Brexit isn’t working...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Manuela Perteghella: "Young people want closer ties with Europe - they know the rights they have lost"

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Manuela Perteghella believes Britain will one day rejoin the European Union.  Asked in an interview with the Europe Street news agency if s...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

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"What's happening in Gaza is a humanitarian and existential tragedy for the people living there, a moral and political disaster for...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Moderate Tory MPs are talking to Lib Dems MPs about joining us

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Some Conservative MPs could be tempted to defect to the Liberal Democrats over their leadership's opposition to the European Convention ...
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Monday, June 02, 2025

The Joy of Six 1366

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"Our shared values and security pacts with Europe may eventually lead to a different ‘special relationship’ than the one we believed we...