David Owen was a Labour Foreign Secretary, then one of the founders of the SDP and subsequently party leader, before leading a rump of the SDP after opposing the party’s merger with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.
As Spitting Image is returning to our screens, it may be interesting to return to an old controversy over it: did its unflattering portrayal of David Steel damage the Liberal Party? … Read the full post »
Chris Radley, former cartoonist for the Social Democrat (the SDP’s weekly newspaper), was interviewed in 2003 about his work. … Read the full post »
Way back in the 1980s, one day I was watching David Owen being interviewed on television, responding to probing questions about the then Alliance’s opinion polls ratings… … Read the full post »
The lessons from 2012 are even more relevant in 2015 – and the Lib Dems need a core votes strategy to recover. … Read the full post »
A rather unlikely photo of former SDP party leader David Owen with Alvin Stardust, Donny Osmond and Paul Young. … Read the full post »
Sign of the Times is a new collection of acerbic, witty and moving cartoons from The Times’s political cartoonist Peter Brookes. … Read the full post »
Edition #37 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at how the new Liberal Democrat message is doing. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #32 looks at who the winners in the Liberal Democrats are from Mike Thornton’s Eastleigh by-election success. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #30 looks at the new political message being used by the Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
A combination of quick thinking, fast typing and a long standing ovation for Nick Clegg meant that Liberal Democrat Newswire #25 covering party conference started hitting people’s email inboxes this week just before the applause finished. … Read the full post »