The newly elected Federal Conference Committee (FCC) met on the evening 8 December, following the most recent round of Federal Elections.  I would like to begin by offering warm congratulations to all ...

An employment tribunal recently dismissed almost all claims in the closely-watched Peggie v Fife Health Board case. Sandie Peggie, a nurse with gender-critical beliefs, sued her employer over its ...

In case the message hasn’t quite got through to our European Leaders, you can’t voice it more starkly than in the new U.S. National Security Strategy. The new strategy shows the U.S. administration’s ...

I read a lot of posts and articles from people who try to dissect the reasoning behind Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine. Some conclude that it is simply a geopolitical squabble between two ...

The Additional Member System (AMS), otherwise known as Mixed Member Proportional (MMP), is one of the leading contenders as a Proportional Representation system for UK General Elections. However, as ...

I am just quickly posting this now in between appointments and I will do some commentary later. The Federal Returning Officer Crispin Allard sent this email out giving the results of the Federal ...

About a month ago I wrote a piece on my blog examining the rhetoric coming from Ed Davey about appealing to One-Nation Conservatives, and found that his words didn’t actually align with our current ...

There was much in Rachel Reeves’ Budget last week for Liberal Democrats to criticise. The freezing of the income tax bands is a stealth tax. It will gradually push many people over time into higher ...

All the debate in the press on the “right” to a jury trial in England (and Wales?) has been interesting from a Scottish perspective. In Scotland, the vast majority of criminal cases are tried in the ...

Most people who join a political party at some point or other seek to gain elected office. First to be elected as a ...

Just like so many people, I went through much of my life following the politics I grew up with. Growing up in Wales, this was nationally Labour. ​After years of following the Labour ideology without ...

I don’t think Federal Council ever fully found its feet. And I think one of the fundamental reasons for this is that we never really understood what it was for. Was it intended only as an emergency ...