'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

Language usage always has a political context.

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.

As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision.

Increased usage should mean more ad revenue.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.