Scotland’s NHS is under immense pressure. In 2023–24, the service spent £358 million on agency and locum staff. A figure, while slightly down from its peak, remains 45% higher than it was ...

On March 10, 2022, Pope Francis said: ‘On the second day of the war I went to the Russian embassy at the Holy See to say that I was willing to go to Moscow if Putin would give me a window to ...

Trumpian chaos has dealt another blow to Ukraine. The American president said that he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. He would bring peace to the region even before he was inaugurated.

Imagine if you will that you are sitting quietly in your house when you hear the door open. A man comes in and starts helping himself to your possessions. You remonstrate with him and he pays no ...

Lib Dem Women and Equalities Spokesperson Christine Jardine has written to Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson to ask for an urgent meeting to address the implications for the LGBTQ+ ...

Following the horrendous and mortifyingly scary Supreme Court judgment on the Equality Act, after a couple of days to breathe, look after and protect our trans and non-binary friends and ...

Once the local elections are over, commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day on May 8th – the end of the second world war – will provide a focus for public attention and local celebrations.

“You have to wonder exactly how they would define “biological sex”. ” The Court said (at para 7 of the judgement) that its uses “the expression “biological sex” which is used widely ...

In its recent judgement on “biological sex”, the Supreme Court avoided defining what “biological sex” is. It says it is “commonly understood”, however the phrase does not appear in most leading ...

One thing I love about the LibDems is how we are willing to stand back and discuss changes to politics at this kind of wider philosophical level. I agree with some (not all) of Peter’s ...

Cometh the hour. Cometh the university. To be more specific, that bastion of American liberalism—Harvard. The defeated Democratic Party is worse than useless. The lawyers are frightened of ...

It was illegal for me to be gay as a teenager. That was wrong. The law was changed. It was illegal for me to marry my husband for 20 years. That was wrong. The law was changed. Liberal Democrats ...