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A forgotten liberal hero: hear the talk
Last month I spoke at the National Liberal Club at an event marking forgotten Liberal heroes, with each of us picking our own person to remember. Thanks to the technical wizardry of Lib Dem Voice’s Alex Foster you can listen to the podcast of my 12 minute talk over on Lib Dem Voice (and you can read [...]
Alex Foster in the Pod Delusion
The Voice’s bursar and hashtag taxonomy expert, Alex Foster also has a sideline in guest appearances on the Pod Delusion podcast. As Alex puts it on his own blog: I’ve been talking on the Pod Delusion again this week, this time about some of the processes involved in standing for election to your local council. [...]
Yes to Fairer Votes: the historical case #yes2av
Earlier in the month I argued the ‘Yes’ case for the AV referendum in a debate at the Gladstone Club. Bearing in mind the host organisation and the venue – the National Liberal Club – I took a more historical approach than usual. Though regular readers may have heard my Winston Churchill quote on electoral [...]
How do the government’s political reforms measure up to the Great Reform Act?
Earlier this year I spoke in the National Liberal Club alongside the History of Parliament Trust’s Philip Salmon (and author of a very good book) about the historical context for the Coalition Government’s political reform program. Soon after becoming Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg promised “the most significant programmes of reform by a British government [...]
How to blog as a councillor: examples from Ealing and Nottingham
Earlier in the month I talked about how the “little and often” rule is a good approach for candidates and those elected to public office when using the internet to keep in touch with voters. There have been two good recent examples of blog posts from Liberal Democrat councillors that illustrate the different roles blog [...]
In other news…
As Alex Foster pointed out on Twitter, Europe is rather complicated – even when itemised in this helpful diagram. Sometimes a blog post that is nearly all just a long list of village names can be extremely effective, as Paul Walter demonstrated. Gary Hunt has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of [...]
Menu and turban design: two places worth a quick visit
Courtesy of Alex Foster, I now have a fab new way of wasting my time extensively researching headgear: http://www.ratemyturban.com Meanwhile if you’re after a reminder of why getting the details of leaflet design right matters, take a look at this piece on the design of restaurant menus.
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