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Are we fiddling while Australia (and Derbyshire) burns?
The good news for Australia is that temperatures have fallen and rain is forecast. I was born and brought up in Australia, so can imagine all too vividly what it is like to live through the horror of…
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There are more elections than many people realise coming up in May
This year's round of local council elections are only in England and are the smallest round of that cycle of elections. Which may make you think that it's a small set of elections and one in which…
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My last ever week in Strasbourg, probably, was dominated by Brexit, but not entirely.
The EP debated and voted on one of the unfinished parts of the Withdrawal Agreement - which is Citizens Rights. Three and a half million EU citizens live in the UK but are not being given the…
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Probation Service
This Conservative Government is failing in its most important duty: keeping people safe. Staff shortages in the Probation Service mean that high-risk individuals in our communities are not being…
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After Trump's silence over the Soleimani assassination, the UK faces a dilemma over its special relationship
It was embarrassing, even humiliating, that the British prime minister was not given notice of the American assassination of the Iranian general
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Lib Dem leadership election timetable and other issues for the Federal Board
Next Saturday is the first meeting of the new Liberal Democrat Federal Board (FB), which will see a mix of old and new faces either around the table or joining via video conference. It'll also be my…
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This is Boris Johnson’s biggest foreign policy test yet – and succeeding means directly standing up to Trump
In the face of the bully-boy president, the prime minister's Brexit experiment must not override open and honest cooperation with our European allies
