Back in the 1990s I worked for H. Samuel and for three years of that time I was based in the store (no longer within the group) that was positioned at the Piccadilly Circus end of Shaftesbury A...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-time-i-met-paul-ogrady-and-lily.html
So Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has broken the ministerial silence since the BBC asked Gary Lineker to step back from presenting Match of the Day. In doing so he says that Linker "was a great foo...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/03/is-government-asylum-policy-fair-and.html
So the outrage over Gary Lineker's comments that some of the language used by the Home Secretary to launch and defend her asylum policy has wreaked havoc to this weekend's football schedule on ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/03/not-just-close-to-language-of-1930s.html
So Kate Forbes, who at the time of writing this, is running in the leadership election of the Scottish National Party has said she would have voted against same-sex marriage legislation at the ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/02/kate-forbes-misses-out-liberalism-of.html
The full name of the party that is in Government in Westminster is the Conservative and Unionist Party. However, today that took a shocking step that may well rock or even split up that union. ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/01/conservative-and-unionist-party.html
So Rishi Sunak thinks that maths should be taught to all young people up to the age of 18. Now I do have an O'level in Maths, plus one in Additional Maths, an A'Level in Maths, plus as part ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2023/01/maths-post-16-years-old.html
Gender Critics are taking exception to Drag Queens interacting with children. While this may be a cultural issue that sparks fear in the USA when they try to import it to the UK they forget a ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/12/tis-season-for-dragoh-no-it-isnt.html
Support LGBT+ fans may not be seeing this World Cup My first memory of World Cup was Argentina 1978 as the UK was on the March with Allie's Army. There was the first wall chart in Glenn ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/11/my-footballess-world-cup.html
Once upon a time, not too long ago, a political party could think what it wanted, propose ideas it espoused and work to make the world a better place. But sadly those days are now the things of...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-fable-of-critical-control-of.html
In a note on chapter 7 of his 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper wrote the following. > Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: > Unlimited tolerance mus...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-paradox-of-tolerance.html
As I did say at the end of my post of my resignation letter from the LDCF (Liberal Democrat Christian Forum) I did say I would publish a follow up about some of the context before and to answe...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/08/follow-up-to-my-resignation-letter-from.html
Dear , In light of the recent statement that you have posted in the LDCF website and on twitter I cannot in good conscience as a gay, liberal, Christian remain a member of Lib Dem Christian F...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/08/my-resignation-letter-from-ldcf-liberal.html
So let's say that someone uses the argument that they want to give a transphobic organisation access to a space where are large number of LGBT+ members assembly biannually. Let us also assume t...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/08/is-giving-transphobes-access-freedom-of.html
Not from from the little terraced house that my father grew up you will see Hands Across the Divide (pictured right). It is a statue that somes up the hope of peace not just in Londonderry/Derr...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/07/lord-trimble-1944-2022.html
I see that this morning John Redwood has tweeted: There are a number of issue with this that many of us here in Northern Ireland take umbridge with. Firstly John is assuming that those con...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/05/northern-ireland-protocol-101-from.html
The latest trend I'm seeing from Conservative representatives is that if poor people knew how to cook properly they wouldn't be facing the cost of living crisis. The Tories that are saying this...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/05/cooking-with-tories.html
(with apologies to Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel) There's a grief that can't be spoken There's a pain goes on and on Empty chair at empty RIsos Now our frien...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2022/01/empty-chair-at-empty-risos-trubute-to.html
As I start to write this I realise it has been an age since I posted anything here. I apologise, but even me before last year happened I lost a bit of my blogging mojo. Since I last posted ther...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2021/06/whitehead-minister-to-step-down-over.html
The key thing that made me jump out of my seat during Jo Swinson's leader's speech was when she questioned why we measure the state of our country by GDP (Gross Domestic Product). It took me bac...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2019/09/well-being-economics-first-reflections.html
The resignations of my friends Jennie Rigg and Sarah Brown resigned from the Liberal Democrats over the joyful acceptance of Philip Lee into the party it gave me pause for reflection. It wasn'...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2019/09/stigmatising-hiv-and-hepatitis-isnt.html
Yesterday one of the quotes from Lyra McKee that really struck home was this: > “We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never > witness the horrors of war bu...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-good-friday-generation-lyramckee.html
At 4:44pm on this day 60 years ago the Unionist MP for North Belfast H. Montgomery Hyde rose to speak in the debate on the Homosexual Offences and Prostitution Report (aka the Wolfenden report). ...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2018/11/60-years-ago-unionist-spoke-out-for.html
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Marine One was able to fly through wind and rain. It wasn't even a Democrat plot even Republican CinCs did it. Age was also no barrier as the eldest...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-sad-ballad-of-marine-one-and-rain.html
LAUNDERS EDWARD United Kingdom Signaller Royal Field Artillery "D" Bty. 162nd Bde. Age: 20 Date of Death: 07/11/1918 Service No: 262577 A.3. In four days time well be remember all those who fe...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2018/11/we-will-remember-them-edward-launders-d.html
It has been a tough few days for me at the end of the week. When the UK Supreme Court ruling was made, on International Day for Mental Health Awareness of all days, it was tough mentally to go al...
http://stephensliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-real-toll-of-battle-for-lgbt.html