Mark Pack

You can now watch Nick Clegg's speech to the Liberal Democrat spring conference here: (In advance of the speech I wrote this setting out what the speech needed to achieve, and afterwards Stephen Tall wrote this assessing the speech.)  »

The Liberal Democrat Conference Special House of Comments podcast features three of us from the Lib Dem Voice team: myself, Alex Foster and Sara Bedford. Listen or download it here.  »

After an excellent debate at Liberal Democrat conference this morning, the motion on 'Freedom, creativity and the internet' was passed. You can read the full text here, but key points included: Conference supports a)the principle of net neutrality, through which all content, sites and platforms are treated equally by user access networks participating in the Internet b)the rights [...] »

Not perhaps the most likely of allegations - I'm sure MI5 can commission its own research and ISPs don't need MI5's money to do their own market research either - but then that's what the music industry lobbyists have been suggesting may be the case. In a leaked circular about the Digital Economy Bill sent to music [...] »

During the week I did this guest post for Left Foot Forward: You judge a set of tax proposals by who gets what money. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? Who could possibly object to that? Well, for a start – me. The reason is highlighted by Will Straw’s analysis of the key policy goals laid down by Nick [...] »

If you’ve read Iain’s post about Anna Arrowsmith “The LibDem Candidate Who Supports Labour” there’s one little detail you won’t have seen. The shocking piece of text saying that Anna Arrrowsmith supports Labour is … six years old. Yes verily, it’s shocking news that the party has selected as a candidate someone who was a [...] »

Although the public frequently says it likes politicians who are positive and who get on with each other, up beat and consensual only gets you so far with online political campaigning. In that arena, it's the unofficial, humorous knocking material that frequently gets the larger audience. So it was with My David Cameron and now [...] »

We’ve twice covered the question of gender balance in (Westminster) politics in recent days with the challenge from the Fawcett Society What about women? and Dinti Batstone’s call to Make politics fit women’s lives, not vice-versa. With party conference in Birmingham about to start, we now have the latest figures on how the party is doing at getting [...] »

Do you really think that, were the opportunity to arise, it would be wrong for this man to appear in a debate next to Nick Griffin?  »

There was a little flurry of interest last year as to whether MPs with “MP” in their Twitter name would face a problem after Parliament is officially dissolved for the general election. That’s because after that point technically no-one is an MP and you’re not allowed to call yourself an MP if you aren’t one. That [...] »