Haggis, Neeps and Liberalism #7: The Megrahi Documents
The Megrahi case has ripped apart the peace of the Scottish Parliamentary recess, with even some former Lib Dem leaders taking a differing view to our leader in Holyrood. Today the UK Government and...
View ArticleOpinion: Cold comfort for the Lib Dems in the dawn of the new politics
On Thursday night we saw the dynamics of the New Politics unfold. For the first time, advocates of the Lib-Con pact came face to face with opponents and the general public in a very public forum. On...
View ArticleDear Lord Falconer…
Dear Lord Falconer, You have me confused with your claim that the Parliamentary Constituencies and Voting Systems Bill is a hybrid bill (and so should go through a different and slower Parliamentary...
View ArticleOpinion: Lords avoid falling into Labour’s “elephant trap” – just
The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituency Bill advanced to its second reading in the House of Lords earlier this month after narrowly avoiding a referral motion tabled by Labour peer Lord...
View ArticleLord Tyler writes: the mischief continues
The BBC’s excellent Westminster correspondent, Mark D’Arcy has got the measure of what’s going on in the House of Lords at the moment, and his update is as good as any. I only question the credit he...
View ArticleLord Falconer, wrong again
Having failed to derail the AV referendum with his highly implausible legal arguments, Labour peer Lord Falconer (who served in the previous Labour government, and was one of those who put the pressure...
View ArticleChris Davies MEP writes… Assisted dying is a liberal issue
It was a Liberal Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt (now the leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament) who ensured that legislation to permit medically assisted dying was brought forward in...
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Assisted dying in the news both north and south of the border – last day for...
The issue of assisted dying is in the news on both sides of the border this week. Yesterday, Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill received its first reading in the House of Lords. This is a formality...
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Opinion: Assisted suicide – why the Falconer Bill must be rejected
The issue of assisted suicide and euthanasia has been presented in the media in a highly emotionally charged way in recent years, with several ‘hard cases’ of non-terminally ill people wanting to die....
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The Times’ curious use of single quotation marks in headlines
Women ‘are not tough enough to lead Labour’ Such was the headline in the Times last Friday, above an article by Lord Falconer. You would be forgiven for tinking that Lord Falconer actually said that...
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