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Tag Archives: Liberal Democrats
Would the Liberal Democrats stand a chance in a U.K. election?
The surprise U.K. election has given Liberal Democrats new hope they can galvanize voters around Britain’s exit from the EU. Will it work?
Maajid Nawaz and the right to laugh at Jesus and Muhammad
Michael Petrou on the tweet landed a British politician in hot water
Tarnished Silver: Assessing the new king of stats
Nate Silver’s attackers don’t know what they’re talking about. (Nor do his defenders)
Will too much compromise split Britain’s coalition government?
Two years in, relations between Britain’s coalition partners Cameron and Clegg hit an all-time low
Music and politics make Nick Clegg cry
These are not the best of days for Britain’s beleaguered junior coalition leader
Did 2010’s man of the year die in 1897?
Marxism is dead; long live Georgism! With Britain in austerity mode, its government pre-emptively decommissioning aircraft carriers that haven’t been built yet and preparing to bounce a half-million public-sector employees, everybody is looking for policy solutions to make the state’s in-flow exceed its out-go with the least possible agony. That has some progressives, including the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable, looking at the notion of Land Value Taxation (LVT)—applying the new tax burdens not to capital and labour income, which would discourage work and investment, but to the unimproved value of land area, where, to a first approximation, it would merely encourage efficient land use and make it more affordable.
That UK election, in full: a guide for the perplexed
ANDREW COYNE’s quick guide to the leaders, the bargaining positions, and the stakes
UK election: Ottawa in Westminster?
COSH: ‘It looks like Britain will have not just a hung parliament, but one positively tied up in sadistic Japanese-style rope bondage’
Britvote ’10: anyone and anything
It’s almost as if Britain is more afraid of a ‘hanging’ than it is of having Random Niceguy MP take power