Liberal Democrats

QUIZ: The Ontario NDP is offering ‘change for the better’. They’re not the first. Match these campaign taglines to the leader and election.

The surprise U.K. election has given Liberal Democrats new hope they can galvanize voters around Britain’s exit from the EU. Will it work?

Michael Petrou on the tweet landed a British politician in hot water

Nate Silver’s attackers don’t know what they’re talking about. (Nor do his defenders)

Two years in, relations between Britain’s coalition partners Cameron and Clegg hit an all-time low

These are not the best of days for Britain’s beleaguered junior coalition leader

Marxism is dead; long live Georgism! With Britain in austerity mode, its government pre-emptively decommissioning aircraft carriers that haven’t been built yet and preparing to bounce a half-million public-sector employees, everybody is looking for policy solutions to make the state’s in-flow exceed its out-go with the least possible agony. That has some progressives, including the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable, looking at the notion of Land Value Taxation (LVT)—applying the new tax burdens not to capital and labour income, which would discourage work and investment, but to the unimproved value of land area, where, to a first approximation, it would merely encourage efficient land use and make it more affordable.

ANDREW COYNE’s quick guide to the leaders, the bargaining positions, and the stakes

COSH: ‘It looks like Britain will have not just a hung parliament, but one positively tied up in sadistic Japanese-style rope bondage’

It’s almost as if Britain is more afraid of a ‘hanging’ than it is of having Random Niceguy MP take power

Can the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats really beat Labour and the Tories?

A fiasco for first-past-the-post would be bad news for its future in Canada