How would you make the positive case for Europe?
The countdown to elections to the European Parliament – to be held in tandem with local government elections on 10th June – is now on. Last week, here on LDV, the Lib Dems’ vice-chair of our Euro...
View ArticleNEW POLL: was the BBC right to ban Carol Thatcher from The One Show?
I’ve avoided for as long as possible the uber-hyped ‘nowtrage’ over Carol Thatcher’s off-air-but-in-the-studio comment that a still-to-be-identified tennis player looks like a ‘golliwog’. It does of...
View ArticleWas Chris Huhne right to say Geert Wilders should be banned from the UK?
As the BBC reports: A Dutch MP who called the Koran a “fascist book” has been sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK. Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders had been...
View ArticleDoes anyone really think the Tories have changed?
There’s been much Westminster Village debate today surrounding Jenni Russell’s article in the Guardian arguing that there are only 10 genuine ‘Cameron progressives’ in the Tory party (Tim Montgomerie...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 26 May 2009
As we all return to work after the Bank Holiday weekend, the big issues I’ve picked for today’s Daily View are about governance: specifically, how the British state should relate to its citizens or how...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 8 June 2009
2 Big Stories This morning’s two big stories are being combined by most of the newspapers: the European election results and what they mean for Gordon Brown’s leadership of the Labour party. From the...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 11 June 2009
Ah, another day, another daily view. Suddenly in the blink of an eye, polling day is a whole week behind us. Lives are being lived, new councillors swearing the oath of office and new groups working...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 15 June 2009
2 Big Stories Further outbreaks of violence in Tehran last night as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed victory crushes reform hopes in Iran. Hossein Mousavi, the opposition candidate, is appealing against...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 18 June 2009
Welcome to Daily View. Happy birthday to Delia Smith CBE. Today is also Autistic Pride Day. 2 Big Stories And it’s good news for Burnley Liberal Democrats as sub-editors across the spectrum studiously...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 1 July 2009
2 Big Stories British economy in worst state in over half a century Perhaps it’s the sweltering weather, perhaps recession fatigue has set in, but there is little reaction to yesterday’s startling news...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 3 July 2009
2 Big Stories Is homphobia still rife on the Tory benches? That’s the allegation from Labour cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw: Ben Bradshaw has said “a deep strain of homophobia still exists on the...
View ArticleLib Dem bloggers’ summer reading (Part I)
For me, it’s the most difficult decision of the year – which books to take with me on holiday. So, I thought, what could be better than to pick the brains of my fellow Lib Dem bloggers, and ask them to...
View ArticleOpen primaries: should the Lib Dems adopt the ‘Totnes model’?
The announcement today from Totnes of the winner of the Tories’ first ‘open primary’ – in which the party’s Parliamentary candidate has been chosen not by party members, but by over 16,000 voters in...
View ArticleNick launches ‘In The Know’ to save taxpayers’ money
Nick Clegg has today launched the Lib Dems’ ‘Ask the People in the Know’ project inviting public sector workers to help identify ways in which government can cut out waste while protecting services in...
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Blog of the Year Awards 2009: The Shortlists
Nominations for the Liberal Democrats’ Blog of the Year Awards 2009 closed on 4 September. Since then, the judges (Tom Brake MP, Ryan Cullen, me, Meral Ece OBE, Lynne Featherstone MP, Alix Mortimer,...
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Blog of the Year Awards 2009: The Winners
What’s loosely termed the awards “ceremony” for the 2009 Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year Awards has just drawn to a glittering close. As the last firework fades in Bournemouth’s night sky, I’m...
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#ldconf podcast: The BOTY recording
Whilst the LDV team is out tonight enjoying, in our various abstemious ways, the Liberal Drinks event at Bournemouth’s Goat and Tricycle tonight, we thought we’d bring you the tape of last night’s BOTY...
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Lib Dem Blog of the Year Awards 2010 – nominations now open
The Liberal Democrat Blog of the Year Awards, run by Lib Dem Voice, are back for their fifth year. As usual, they’ll be awarded in a budget lavish ceremony at the party’s autumn conference in...
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