Jointly published by Soundings, Social Liberal Forum and Compass, After the Crash is a call to arms for a coalition of ideas and action on the centre left, working together to find common ground for change. It was jointly edited by Richard S. Grayson and Jonathan Rutherford
After the Crash (Final)
The challenges faced by [...]
Author Archives: James Graham
After the Crash: Re-inventing the Left in Britain
Spring Conference News
Inaugural General Meeting
Saturday 13th Early Evening 18.15 – 19.30
The ICC, Hall 6b
The Social Liberal Forum has been up and running for just over a year now. We always intended to make it a membership-based organisation and that time has come!
At this year’s Lib Dem Spring Conference in Birmingham, we will be holding our first general [...]
Robin Hood Tax? Beware the men in tights
I want to support the new campaign for a “Robin Hood Tax” – really I do. I understand the logic behind the Tobin Tax and have a lot of sympathy for the idea. But there’s something about this campaign… Actually, there are four problems I have with it:
Firstly, the name “Robin Hood [...]
The Tories’ boneheaded priorities
We can only speculate what the Tory campaigns department were thinkin when they launched the now much-spoofed “R.I.P. OFF” poster. In a nutshell it demonstrates all that is wrong with David Cameron’s Conservatives: naive and focused on the wrong priorities.
The campaign is rooted in the fact that the Labour government is considering a charge [...]
New Demos pamphlet makes the Lib Dem case for equality
In association with The Equality Trust, Demos have today published three pamphlets focusing on equality from the perspective of each of the main political parties. The Liberal Democrat one, A Wealth of Opportunity, is written by Julia Margo and William Bradley and has a foreword by David Laws MP.
A concern with inequality lies deep [...]
The Spirit Level in 3 minutes
A short film to promote The Spirit Level, the paperback edition of which came out this week:
Okay, it ever so slightly over-eggs the pudding, but it is good fun nonetheless.
The Social Liberal Forum will be running a joint fringe with the Equality Trust at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in March. More details soon.
News Roundup
Climate change science has been dealt another blow by the revelation that University of East Anglia professor Phil Jones knowingly used flawed evidence in one of his studies. How many more revelations like this will we have before the scientific community learn the lesson that transparency is the only way to ensure public trust?
Meanwhile, a [...]
News roundup
Labour is reported to be putting cooperative principles at the heart of its 2010 manifesto. Anyone remember the third way?
Nick Clegg is spelling out today how the Liberal Democrats propose to pay for its flagship ‘pupil premium‘ policy for education.
David Cameron is continuing to confuse over both the economy and human rights. Despite the Tory [...]
Social Liberal Forum Newsletter
Sorry we’ve been quiet for the last few weeks – for reasons that will become apparent below. We had a tremendously successful conference season and would like to welcome everyone who signed up to this newsletter at one or other of our fringe meetings.
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
The Social Liberal Forum executive has undergone some significant changes [...]
