Monthly Archives: January 2025

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1. Why Cromwell’s Statue at Westminster Should Come Down
2. We must stand together against anti-Jewish hatred
3. Why does cautious Starmer keep getting it wrong?
4. South Cambridgeshire proved it works. It should be Lib Dem policy
5. Time is ticking: Britain’s defences need urgent fixing

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• Why A&E must stay free. But funding must change. (Jean-François Burford)
• South Cambridgeshire proved it works. It should be Lib Dem policy (Tanya Park)
• A single point of failure: Why we need the NHS to remove Palantir. (Martin Wrigley, Rebecca Jones, Theo Brown)
• “Forthright, clear, determined, energetic” – a tribute to Councillor Jeanette Sunderland (Ed Fordham)
• We must stand together against anti-Jewish hatred (Gavin Stollar)

• The rise and fall and (slight) rise of Lionel Bart
• Council by-election results scorecard 2025-2026
• 2 down, 64 to go!
• Reform's BNP candidate kicked out
• My latest article for Central Bylines: Freda Jackson and Henry Bird
• W.H. Auden wrote a sonnet about Richard Jefferies
• The Joy of Six 1508

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• Tanya Park
  @Simon, thank you for making these great points. Yes, some of the recruitment and retention gains are positional and would diminish at scale. But as I noted ...
• Peter Davies
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• Mick Taylor
  This article goes totally against all the principles our party stands for. I have experience of what happens when private insurers are involved. I was involved...
• Kevin Hawkins
  When I was a councillor I was repeatedly told by (usually by Conservatives) that “you don’t fix a problem by throwing money at it.” My response was to sa...
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  Why on earth would it be better to pay extra for private insurance (with the insurance company's profit margin) than to just pay a bit more tax?...