At spring conference, Fraser Graham organised trans pride coloured stall mascots for most stalls in the exhibition hall. This ...

As a Liberal, I think it is always important to know where we stand on matters and, just as important, to know why we stand there. After ‘do no harm’, a very basic tenet of liberalism is that all ...

Scottish Liberal Democrats have announced that charity chief executive Duncan Dunlop and environmental campaigner Ray Georgeson will top the party's list for the South of Scotland region at the ...

On Wednesday, 16 July, I attended my first Full Council meeting as a Deputy Mayor. I sat quietly next to the Mayor of Welwyn Hatfield. It did feel different. Did it feel strange? Yes, it did. Sitting ...

On a recent summer evening, members of the Liberal Democrat European Group were able to join an online webinar, chaired by David Chalmers of our Federal International Relations Committee, to hear ...

Lsst week, the BBC reported that the Met Police had radical plans to close half its public front desks due to budget cuts. There were further revelations about entrenched misogyny and racism, leading ...

With autumn conference (taking place in Bournemouth from 20-23 September) approaching, I’ve been looking back and thinking about what I might’ve found useful to know as a first timer. The directory ...

Liberator 430 is out and you can download it for free here: and sign up to be emailed when each issue comes out here: In addition to Radical Bulletin, Commentary, Letters and Lord Bonkers’ Diary, this ...

Replacing first-past-the-post (FPTP) with a fairer voting system has been Liberal Democrat policy for as long as I can remember, but the increasing number of political parties making this urgent. We ...

The wild rollercoaster of the 1920s The 1920s are rather the forgotten decade of British politics. The ‘long 1920s’, from the ...

The highlight of any Saturday night at Federal Conference is the ALDC's Campaigner Awards which highlight the wonderful things our councillors and campaigners have been doing over the past year and ...

Dick Newby has served us very well as Lib Dem Leader in the Lords since September 2016. He has now stood down and there was ...