The recent elections that took place in Greece and France clearly demonstrated that the citizens of Europe do not agree with the austerity programme that has been mapped out for them by European political leaders, in particular the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Alongside this, it has become ap... [More]

If last week’s series of results from the local and European polls proved anything it was that sometimes democracy is overrated. The good people of Greece and France have decided that austerity is not for them. The French have elected a Socialist president who is determined to overturn his ... [More]

Downtown Liverpool celebrated its eighth anniversary last night – on the same day that the city unveiled its first elected mayor. When I established DLIB back in 2004, the primary campaigning objective was to have an elected mayor for Liverpool. Not only was it seen as a way of offering us ... [More]

Oh how we Brits scoffed at those eccentric Greeks when they took to the streets to protest at the austerity measures that were being demanded of them by their Eurozone partners. How we gasped in disbelief as we were told of the horrors that faced the far less sophisticated economies of Spain, Italy ... [More]

It was sixties Labour leader and Prime Minister Harold Wilson who famously said ‘a week is a long time in politics.’ If that is the case, then the past seven days must have seemed like an eternity to David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne. A huge uprising of Tory backbenchers o... [More]