Thank you. Thank you, and thank you. A lot of people said that what I have written is beautiful. What is beautiful for me is seeing that so many people liked to read this. Before my accident I was a writer. For the last year I thought that I might not be able to do this again. The amount of people who have read this, and responded to this is heart-warming. It means that I am back again, and that for me is beautiful.

The Lib Dems need to show they can demonstrate principled leadership on issues beyond Brexit. The motion being proposed on tax is a missed opportunity — The Lib Dems are debating a motion on the reform of business taxation at Autumn conference. With the widespread gaming of the system which currently goes on, this debate is timely. The premise of the motion, which is to replace corporation tax with a British Business Tax is absurd. The…

And why I am backing Sarah Lewis to be the next Lib Dem parliamentary candidate — The Liberal Democrats are currently selecting their candidate to fight the next General Election in Vauxhall. This time I will not be putting my name forward as a candidate. I am not going to lie. Losing an election to the hard right is hard. Sitting on the sidelines and watching…

Sir Vince Cable was absolutely right to call out the brexit elite for their xenophobic campaign. — For months now people have been asking me — where are the Lib Dems? Why do we hear nothing from them? Being a former parliamentary candidate, I am on the press office mailing list. I can tell you, they are sending out stuff several times a day. …

There is now an increasing amount of evidence demonstrating that the dramatic rise in house prices being seen in the UK and elsewhere is not caused by a lack of housing supply. This is a hugely important insight, because boosting supply has been the primary focus of government policy for…

how did we get here? — and how do we get out? — One of the reasons why I started this website was a growing frustration with the narrative around the housing crisis. Politicians, commentators and practitioners all have the same solution — we need to build more homes. If it were so easy, why, does the crisis still persist? …

What Lord Heseltine really told the Limehouse Podcast — The frothing mouths on the hard right of the Conservative Party have been spitting out their Christmas Pudding. Michael Heseltine’s head is being demanded on a plate. His crime? …

A plea to journalists covering the story — As the revelations from the Paradise Papers hit the news stands many journalists are asserting as fact that nothing illegal has taken place. The BBC in the UK are the most aggressive proponents of this line, but the issue has been raised in other countries too. …

Some thoughts from the Liberal Democrat campaign in Vauxhall in #GE2017. — If anywhere should have provided fertile ground for the Liberal Democrat’s unashamedly pro-European message in the 2017 General Election, it was Vauxhall. In the run up to the EU referendum, Kate Hoey rejected the mainstream leave campaign to join Nigel Farage. Labour Leave, the organisation she chaired was so close…