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We’ve been blown away by the response to our forthcoming webinar: ‘What’s it like to be dsabled in Britain in 2021?’ with speakers Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Michelle Daley and Dan White. … Read the full post »
The deadline for sending in comments on the CPS consultation on its legal guidance on rape is coming up soon and, a few days in advance of that… … Read the full post »
“A very deserving congratulations to our first winners of today’s Pink News Awards – Layla Moran takes Politician of the Year for being an open and visible role model” – Pink News … Read the full post »
This year’s Black History Month has arrived at a time where the topics of identity, race, culture and equality rarely seem to be out of the national conversation. … Read the full post »
The diaries of Sasha Swire, wife of former Conservative MP Hugo Swire, have attracted a lot of attention and several lengthy book reviews. But… … Read the full post »
There is vanishingly small evidence that showing your ID when voting in Britain would reduce electoral fraud. … Read the full post »
Earlier today, Iain Dale hosted a head-to-head debate for LBC radio between Ed Davey and Layla Moran, safely socially distanced but in the same studio. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the government to back a new Bill to scrap suspicion-less stop and search in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, which have exposed ingrained institutional racism and discrimination in the UK. … Read the full post »
Back in the early days of the lockdown, I caught up on filing old election leaflets and found one of my own. Liberal Democrat Newswire #138, which came out last week, explains the lessons for politics in 2020 from it. … Read the full post »
I am a historian by training, so you might expect me to instinctively favour of arguments about how ‘we mustn’t airbrush history’ and ‘we mustn’t edit history to meet current values’. … Read the full post »