The RSA City Growth Commission's Devo Met report is an insightful contribution to the rapidly-moving issue of devolution to English city-regions. Liberal Democrats in the North East will be…
A decision to move the Crown Post Office away from Gosforth High Street has been branded "appalling" and "incomprehensible" by local councillors.
Despite some alarming stories about serious crimes in the media, the overall trend since the Coalition was formed is down. The latest independent crime survey of England and Wales shows crime has…
An easier way to implement a fairer tax - Liberal Democrats show how a "mansion tax" in the form of "super council tax" on the richest 55,000 people would work. At the Liberal Democrat conference in…
Today, the member states of the European Union published the negotiating mandate for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. This mandate sets the parameters for the negotiations, which…
For too long the North of England has been neglected by central government. To close the north-south gap we need better transport infrastructure in the region. This means better motorways and better…
Paddy Ashdown: ""My pitch is: do you want a job? Do you want a future? Are you going to trust that to a Labour party that trashed the economy? Because they'll do so again.
The Journal uses its leader column (6/10/14) to argue, not entirely consistently, that the Lib Dems were right to go into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010, given the electoral arithmetic, but…
The Liberal Democrats have passed a new party policy which includes wide ranging plans to reduce crime against a backdrop of falling crime figures since the party entered government.