COP 29 is in trouble. It was inevitable. This year’s climate change conference is in oil-producing Baku, Azerbaijan, and host president Ilham Aliyev is using the conference to push oil and gas as “a ...

One down. A lot more to go. The infamous and totally unsuitable Matt Gaetz on Friday withdrew his name for consideration as Donald Trump’s Attorney General. The world heaved a sigh of relief. Trump ...

This time last week we were all celebrating the news of a stonking by-election win in Colinton/Fairmilehead in Edinburgh. We jumped from fourth place to first to elect Louise Spence after an intense ...

The importance of next May A blessing and a curse of a democracy is that elections keep on coming around. So while this year ...

The UK’s image of its place in the world since the Second World War has rested on the claim to act as the ‘Atlantic bridge’, as Tony Blair used to put it. We were the USA’s closest ally within Europe, ...

The Scottish Liberal Democrats conference this past weekend was quite something. It was fantastic to be in a room full of likeminded people and to play a part in some truly compelling debates. We ...

The Liberal Democrats have marked Transgender Day of Remembrance, saying on social media: Today on Trans Day of Remembrance ...

A poll conducted by YouGov after the last general election revealed that the Liberal Democrats won 16% of the vote of those aged 18–24-year-olds. As good as this may seem (especially compared to 5% of ...

Last week I reported that many Lib Dems are migrating to Bluesky. And now Lib Dem Voice has taken up residence – you can find us at: https://bsky.app/profile ...

This BBC film came out in March to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first UK equal marriage. So I am catching up a bit. I started watching it because it was re-shown on BBC1 on Sunday. If you ...

As companion pieces to our recent series of maiden speeches by new Liberal Democrat MPs, we are carrying speeches from our ...