A crucial by-election win in Wiltshire sees a Lib Dem/independent coalition retain its slim majority on the council.

Cllr Samantha Williamson (Horwich South and Blackrod ward, Bolton) has decided to join the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full ...

Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors on principal authorities elected ...

Each row shows the net gains or losses for that party, broken down by where those gains/losses have come from. Each cell shows the net gains/losses, followed by in brackets the total number of gains ...

Four principal authority council by-elections this week along with a Parliamentary one too. In the council contests, we say ...

Mark and Cory conclude their discussion of the classic TV series State of Play. Mark reports back on his correspondence with ...

Below is the list of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidates (formally Prospective Parliamentary Candidates, aka PPCs) for the next Westminster general election whose selection has been ...

Mark and Cory begin their two-part series on the classic BBC TV series State of Play by discussing episode one.

The combined agenda and directory for the forthcoming Lib Dem Spring Conference 2026 in York are now out. Taking a look through, I was glad to see that a change I introduced as President has stuck. We ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts is not really an episode of the podcast but rather a rerun of an interview I did for the YIMBY Pod with James O’Malley, talking about the problems with ...

Gloucestershire Live reports news of Heather McLain joining the Lib Dems in Tewkesbury: A Conservative councillor has defected to the Liberal Democrats after the “final straw” of the selection of an ...