Slightly left field interview here with Carl Cashman, Leader of the Lib Dems on Liverpool City Council. Is he correct?
By-elections invite panic. Turnout drops, narratives harden fast, and parties start talking as if politics is a single emergency in which only one “responsible” outcome is acceptable. The coming ...
Three Politicians who walked into a bar? “Mine’s a pint of Red!” declaimed the Socialist.  “For Society, Fairness and Solidarity.  With Labour in charge, of course!” “Beg pardon” said the Liberal “but ...
Jim Wallace and his successor Liam McArthur. Liam worked for Jim as a Special Adviser when he was First Minister. You can see ...
Alex Cole-Hamilton also worked for Jim Wallace - in the Scottish Parliament Liberal Democrat staff pool. Here is his tribute ...
It is part of Jim Wallace's legacy that three of our MSPs worked for him in some capacity. Willie Rennie was the Chief Executive of the Scottish Lib Dems who helped us win 17 seats in the new Scottish ...
The House of Lords also paid tribute to Jim Wallace yesterday. Our leader in the House of Lords, Jeremy Purvis led the speeches. You can watch here. My Lords, many of us aspire to be a good politician ...
It has been said many times over the past few days that Jim Wallace was a kind man. It speaks volumes that almost everyone you might ask has an example of this kindness. Here is my own. It is a doubly ...
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living”. These were the words of John Dewey, from his 1916 book, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the ...
As we watch Donald Trump knock down the checks and balances built into the US constitution to constrain the powers of ...
One of the highlights of the Edinburgh Lib Dems social calendar is the South Edinburgh Burns Supper which I've been going to ...
In her Scotsman column this week, Christine Jardine has made many of us in Scotland cry. She wrote about Jim Wallace, about meeting him as a young reporter and then as a fellow parliamentarian. I ...