political archive
Highlights from this category
- The perils of political canvassing 3 Jan
- It’s the Euro’s fate, not Britain’s fate, which is the key post-summit question 11 Dec
- The best political news and blogs: all on one page 24 Oct
- Election timetable: May 2012 22 Oct
- Campaigning In Your Community: new book out 24 Aug
- Our lost phrase: community politics 11 Jun
- Please send the deregulation hit squad: all I want is some double-glazing 9 Jun
- The politics of windmills 30 Nov
- 22 Days in May by David Laws – book review 29 Nov
- A lesson from history in tackling terrorism 25 Nov
- Camp Victory, Afghanistan 23 Nov
- News may travel quickly but it sometimes takes quite a while to start 22 Oct
- Windmills, patriotism and making the green case 14 Oct
Treading in the footsteps of royalty, aka what happens after a Parliamentary by-election
This morning it was off to south west London to join campaigners from around and outside London for some campaigning to follow up the Feltham & Heston by-election. Roger Crouch and his team did a great job holding on to third place and the deposit in the by-election. Now the election is over, the area [...]
Boundary Commission for England publishes details of stage two consultation
Boundary Commission for England Newsletter 2012 #1
VIDEO: Ed Davey takes up post at Department of Energy and Climate Change
From the Department of Energy and Climate Change:
Tax cuts for millions or for millionaires? Newsletter #16 is out
The 16th edition of my monthly newsletter about the Liberal Democrats came out this week. If you’re not on the list to get it via email, you can instead read it online here: Tax cuts for millions or for millionaires If you would like to receive future editions of the newsletter direct to your own [...]
Lib Dem achievements, communicating peers and election timetables
A trio of resources for your weekend’s delectation: Electoral timetable for May’s elections: I’ve recently updated my May 2012 election timetable post with extra details Liberal Democrat peers on Twitter: having commented adversely in the past on the lack of communications from many of them, I’ve been hunting out how many are using Twitter. You [...]
Paddy Ashdown’s eight steps to winning a Parliamentary constituency
In December 1976 Paddy Ashdown put to the local party in Yeovil a plan for winning the constituency for which he had been recently selected and where the party was third at almost every election. Thirty-five and a bit years on, it still reads as a pretty good plan. 1. We should adopt a three-election strategy [...]
Call on Russia to support a strong UN resolution on Syria
Good to see Amnesty International putting pressure on the Russian government over its threats to block a meaningful UN Security Council resolution on Syria. Amnesty is calling on Russian to support a resolution that at the very least would: impose an arms embargo on Syria freeze the assets of President al-Assad and other individuals suspected [...]
Why I (still) read the Daily Mail
Four years on, I’m still a Daily Mail reader (even if they think I’m a foreigner). Here’s an updated explanation. I once rang the Daily Mail to mildly complain about a story I had a connection with. The journalist I spoke to put me on hold while he conferred with a colleague. At least, he thought he [...]
Richard Macmillan – Lib Dem candidate for City & London East
Richard Macmillan, the Liberal Democrat candidate for the City & London East constituency, has launched a new website for his campaign. It’s at richardmacmillan.co.uk and you can also find him on Facebook.
Southwark Council lets £50,000 get washed away
£50,000: that’s what Southwark Council has wasted by failing to keep its salt stocks safe and dry. Cllr James Barber has the details: Southwark Council proudly announced they’ve 1,400 tonnes of salt and grit in stock for this Winter. We’ve not had snow so they’ve not needed to use that grit or salt. At £30-40 [...]
