Plan C: The Social Liberal Forum’s economic prognosis
Plan C’s strength is not in producing reams of new policy, but in pulling together many different ideas into a few clear strands. … Read the full post »
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Plan C’s strength is not in producing reams of new policy, but in pulling together many different ideas into a few clear strands. … Read the full post »
ALDC has just published a new collection I’ve edited: Top Tips for Local Campaigners, packed with 160 tips. Here is how my introduction starts: I don’t want you to read this book. That may seem an odd request for an editor to make at the start of a book. But if you just sit down, read … Read the full post »
The title of Tom Chatfield’s book ’50 digital ideas you really need to know’ is really rather a misnomer as this is not so much a book about important ideas as a dictionary defining 50 digital terms. … Read the full post »
John Scalzi’s science-fiction novel enters a competitive and distinguished field of sci-fi books that tell the story of someone enlisting in a future army to fight aliens. … Read the full post »
Gregory Benford’s The Wonderful Future That Never Was is a collection of some of the best, worst and strangest predictions for future technology. … Read the full post »
Flying Free, the newly revised and expanded autobiography of Nigel Farage, is timely not only for the party’s own fans but for anyone else interested in British politics. … Read the full post »
Christian Wolmar’s expertise lies in the railways rather than military history and he is refreshingly frank about the limitations of his knowledge of the latter. … Read the full post »
Lib Dem Voice has an affinity deal with Amazon, which means if you purchase goods from Amazon via LDV’s links, Lib Dem Voice earns a small commission. … Read the full post »
Thanks to Ian Fleming and James Bond, SMERSH is one of the best known foreign intelligence agencies in the world. … Read the full post »
Rachel Hewitt’s entrancing story of the birth of Britain’s Ordnance Survey is both a skilful piece of history and also a striking example of the limitations of the profession. It was a dedicated group of people who led the way in mapping, and for all their dedication they were also curiously unfocused, often being distracted … Read the full post »