Click here for details of my essay "Cohesive Communities", written with David Boyle, in Passports to Liberty 6.
Click here for details of my essay "Defending Families" in Passports to Liberty 5.
A weekly Commons sketch written for Liberal Democrat News. More recent columns will be posted shortly. In the mean time they can be found on my blog Liberal England.
2004
2003
2002
Choice words (An appeal for a more liberal Lib Dem education policy: April 2006)
The rules of attraction (How will the Lib Dems respond to David Cameron?)
Bare necessity (Network Rail’s environmental policies)
Master of the understatement (the October 2002 reshuffle)
Changing tack (looking ahead to the 2002 Liberal Democrat Conference)
Moving into the mainstream (the 14 new Lib Dem MPs after one year)
Why the drugs won't work for Lib Dems (Spring Conference 2002)
Looking to the right (the launch of the Peel Group: January 2002)
Lib Dems' galaxy of rising stars (a diary of the 2001 Liberal Democrat Conference)
Authenticity: Brands, fakes, spin and the lust for real life by David Boyle
Clement Davies: Liberal leader by Alun Wyburn-Powell
Wasted Rainforests: An essay on the policy-making process of the Liberal Democrats by Jeremy Hargreaves
A Little Chit of a Fellow: A biography of the Right Hon. Leslie Hore-Belisha by Ian R. Grimwood
Always on the go (ADHD and Ritalin: September/October 2003)
Out into the sunlight and the pure wind (Is contact with nature good for us? July/August 2004)
Orange blossom (a review of The Orange Book)
Review of if... by Mark Sinker (BFI Film Classics)
Review of David and Winston: How a friendship changed history by Robert Lloyd George (John Murray)
Bonfire fright (an account of 5 November in Lewes)
Why kids should miss the walking bus (“En gåbusmodstanders synspunkt” - www.mobiludenbil.dk)
Professor Strange (an occasional column)
The secret that never was (October
2003)
Victorians, modesty and tablelegs (February
2004)
Trainspotting, autism and what it means to be normal (July
2005)
Histories of abuse (paper presented at the Tavistock Clinic, June 2004)
A satirical account of the first London Mayoral election, written as the campaign developed. Whittington also wrote a less successful blog during the 2005 general election.
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