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2 Big Stories Brown apologises for mis-spellings in condolence letter Here’s a deeply uncomfortable story to start the week: Downing Street has defended the way the prime minister writes to bereaved families after a dead soldier’s mother said Gordon Brown misspelled his name. Gu...
A week today, starting at 10am on Monday 16th November, an act of political record keeping resurrection will commence as the lost marked register from the Glenrothes Westminster Parliamentary by-election is recreated...
A group of 44 academics is lobbying the Advertising Standards Authority to change the rules on ads featuring airbrushed models, following the publication of a research paper which says that such ads encourage eating disorders and self-harm...
It’s Sunday. It’s 7am. It’s time to find out how peanut butter is made. But first, the news. 2 Big Stories Gordon Brown floats idea of tax on financial transactions Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s idea of a financial transactions tax has received a lukewarm response from G20 countries. The pr...
What do we forget when we remember What are the stories left untold What do we think each November As we march down that glory road As we march down that gory road...
Three weeks ago, LDV posed the following question – How should the Lib Dems increase their number of female MPs? – in the wake of Nick Clegg’s frank admission to the Speaker’s Conference that the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party is “woefully unrepresentative of modern Britain”. Here’s wha...
Welcome to part five of our “Introduction to blogging” guide for Liberal Democrat bloggers or would-be bloggers. It’s appearing each Saturday between now and Christmas, with all the posts available viathis page. The ...
The headline recommendations from Sir Christopher Kelley’s review of MPs’ expenses have been widely covered. De...
Christopher Everett The last big progressive party in the UK.
2 Big Stories Tory trouble as Lisbon Treaty passes As the Czech President Vaclav Klaus ratified the EU’s Lisbon Treaty – now set to become law within a few weeks – the Conservative Party once again finds itself risking deep divisions over Europe rising to the surface. As t...
On 26th September 2007 David Cameron gave what he called a cast-iron guarantee. The guarantee appeared in a piece published under his name in Mr Murdoch’s Sun. ...
In a followup piece to his preview of US Elections ‘09, Paul Elgood updates us on the results of yesterdays voter ballots across America. Somewhat predictably President Obama got a wake-up call last night in the 3rd November elections. ...
Those concerned that the drive to lower the deficit by cutting government spending in the near term will stall recovery and lead to the so-called double dip recession have had their views strengthened by the publication of Slash and Grow...
… We’d say a big thank you to the 31,331 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in October. That’s a 10% uplift on last month’s readership, and a 38% increase on the same period a year ago, when just over 22,000 readers visited LDV. This bring...
On Saturday, LDV reported the news that the Scottish Lib Dems were uniting behind leader Tavish Scott’s opposition to the SNP referendum on independence, ahead of a special private conference for party members. ...
