Japanese Election: Opposition wins Landslide

After 54 years of conservative rule, it appears that Japan's opposition party, the left of centre, Democratic Party of Japan has won a landslide victory. The Liberal Democrats have ruled for all but 11 months...

Britain's Liberal Democrats Wants Photoshopped Ad Photos Banned

Britain's Liberal Democrats are proposing a policy to ban photos that have been "airbrushed", or manipulated to make the subject look thinner or free from blemishes. The new policy would require all images manipulated by tools like photoshop to bear a message indictating they...

AV, STV, FPTP? The only thing that will make MPs listen is fear

This story cross posted from my blog. I suppose we all could debate which is the best way to vote and to elect our representatives – and that debate is ongoing. Some say alternative vote, single transfer voting, first past the post. What is a common theme is that the...

Then shall we be brave…

[...] and elect a Liberal Democratic government? "Labour may deserve to lose – but the country doesn’t deserve the Tories " It seems to me that most commentators still believe that there is only two party’s that can govern – the Conservatives or New labour. This is,...

Is it Okay for Liberals to Call Blacks the ‘N’ Word?

By Lloyd Marcus Guest Blogger “Maybe this nigger should shut up and learn his place” is one of numerous racist hate-filled comments posted on YouTube attacking me, a black Conservative, for writing the American...

Ashdown: Have Scottish independence referendum to finish off SNP

Former leader of the UK political party the Liberal Democrat, Paddy Ashdown has said 'Scotland should back a referendum on independence to finish off the SNP as a political force once and for all'. He feels that...

Lib Dems want Expulsion for UK's House of Lords

After a series of scandals involving the UK's House of Lords, the upper house in the country's parliament, the Liberal Democrat party is calling for the body to enact new rules that would enable the body to expel numbers. A Lordship is a hereditary or nominated position that...

Healthy school meals drive 'failing', say Lib Dems

"The Liberal Democrats have today attacked the government's failure to get more children eating healthy school meals. According to figures obtained in response to a Lib Dem parliamentary question, almost two-thirds of secondary, and around 60% of primary school pupils, are...

Royal Journalist Awaits His Fate At The Old Bailey

"The Old Bailey has heard how the News of The World's Royal Editor and an associate tapped into several hundred private phone messages of royal aides and that the motive was solely for "profit and personal gain"."

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