Our March meeting is on Thursday 6th. Peter Garbutt will be leading a discussion on Direct Democracy, Citizens Assemblies and […]

Who governs Britain? Politics in Pubs Manchester welcomed Benjamin Page from the TaxPayers' Alliance to examine the rise of QUANGOs - 'arms-length' bodies funded by taxpayers but not controlled directly by central government.

What is the role of government?  What should it do?  And what should it not do?

For better or worse – with a hostile mainstream media rendered largely impotent – MAGA is back. And how! Why […]

A missed flight, snow and an extra overnight stay meant our original plans for our November event went astray.  Rapidly […]

Many of our town centres are in crisis. Will Labour make things better and are they already attacking free speech? […]

With turnout at elections dwindling, and a growing divide between the public and our leaders, the Newcastle group met to […]

It was interesting to discuss in detail what is going on in America (on the 4th July!) and Europe. However, […]

Who represents us and in what capacity; what is the nature of the democratic deficit; what system of elections and […]

Professor Peter Ramsay joined the Manchester group to talk about how Brexit exposed the chasm between rulers and the ruled, and the void where representative politics used to be.

The news is full of items about climate change and the climate 'emergency'. We are told the science behind these topics is 'settled' and there is no need for debate.  Is this true?

Tim O'Rourke, chair of the North West region of the Social Democratic Party joined us to explain what the SDP stands for.