Mark Pack

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 [...] »

It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for photographs of bollards, but first the news. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: The Mood at Lib Dem Conference: Nick Thornsby takes the pulse The Saturday List: Lib Dem Constituency Songs: Will [...] »

The story so far: Emergency motion on the Digital Economy Bill submitted (see full text on Bridget Fox’s blog) Federal Conference Committee treat it fairly generously – as emergency motions do not normally get into the territory of drawing up significant new party policy (because, by their nature, the wording is only published at the last moment [...] »

Federal Executive (FE) report moved by Ros Scott – “I hope it is a sign that you are all fairly happy with the party that the room is emptying so rapidly.” Explains FE meetings always start with a session with Nick Clegg and also gets regular updates on the general and local election campaigns. Explains how [...] »

Party business sessions are usually fairly thinly attended at party conference, except back in the days of disaster and near bankrupcy immiediately after the merger which formed the Liberal Democrats. They can however play an important role, particularly where well chosen questions tease out information or get commitments on the record. James Graham’s question this morning about [...] »

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 [...] »

That was the message of Danny Alexander’s speech to the Liberal Democrat spring conference this morning. Change – but not just any sort of change: Two ideas will dominate this election campaign: change and fairness. Only one party is arguing at this election for both fairness and change: the Liberal Democrats. Change: because business as usual is [...] »

It’s been a while since we last reminded readers about this, so now seems a good time to publish the information again. You may have noticed that next to some people’s comments is a small picture of themselves, such as: If you want a picture to appear [...] »

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 [...] »