Baroness Shirley Williams will be speaking at a special Fabian Society event on 10 March to answer the question “How liberal is Labour?” in conversation with Newsnight’s Michael Crick.
Tickets are free for Fabian Society members and £10 for non-members. In addition, you can buy a six-month introductory membership for £9.95 which includes a free [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Feb 26
Shirley Williams: How Liberal is Labour? (Fabian Society)
Feb 23
Steve Webb this Wednesday
Steve Webb MP, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary (and Chair of the Social Liberal Forum’s Advisory Board), will be leading a policy discussion at Portcullis House, Westminster, on Wednesday 25 February.
To give people some food for thought, we have also republished Steve and Jo Holland’s article on Communicating Social Liberalism from Reinventing [...]
Feb 22
Expanding home delivery
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Feb 22
Communicating Social Liberalism
By Steve Webb and Jo Holland
This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Steve and Jo for allowing us to reproduce this article.
Liberal Democrats are good at coming up with policies. Probably the best policy decision of New Labour – independence for the [...]
Feb 20
In defence of broad church politics
There has been a bit of a debate waging over the past week about “classical (or economic) liberals versus social liberals,” partly due to the launch of the Social Liberal Forum and exacerbated by a recent editorial in Liberator Magazine.
For the record, while the Social Liberal Forum does indeed believe that social liberalism is the [...]
Feb 19
Give council tenants the right to move
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Feb 18
Ratification of Appointments
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Feb 14
The Ideas Factory
Got an idea you think should be in the Lib Dem manifesto? We want to hear it!
As part of the Social Liberal Forum’s contribution to the Liberal Democrat policy making process, we are inviting people (whether they are party members or not) to write a short article about their big idea, and invite a debate [...]
Feb 14
And we’re off!
As reported in the Liberal Democrat News yesterday, the Social Liberal Forum has now been launched. Our Director, Matthew Sowemimo, has also written a short article on Lib Dem Voice.
Our launch appears to have caused a bit of a stir – which is kind of the point. You can follow the debate by going to [...]
Feb 12
Welcome!
The Social Liberal Forum website is now live! We’ll be adding lots more to this website as it develops, but in the meantime, you might want to check out the following:
Our “about” section, including a brief rundown of what we stand for and who we are.
David Howarth’s excellent “What is Social Liberalism?” taken from Reinventing [...]
