Previous editors include Peter Hain in 1973–75, later a Labour MP.
Since 1982, the magazine has been edited by an editorial collective, whose former members include Liz Barker, now a Liberal Democrat peer.
The magazine merged with Radical Bulletin, mostly topical and distinctly off-message news, in 1983.
Regular features include a column by the fictional peer Lord Bonkers who "was Liberal MP for Rutland South-West between 1906 and 1910.
Since 1990 his diaries have appeared in Liberator magazine, giving a unique perspective on British politics.