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Tim Farron: good speech, but wrong message
Sometimes the toughest speaking gigs for MPs is when they are talking to a friendly audience – but something interesting is happening behind them. So it was a few months ago with Julian Huppert talking to Putney Liberal Democrats. Very thoughtful speech, well received by the members and supporters present – but Julian had to [...]
How do the university application figures match up against my five questions?
On Sunday, ahead of the publication of the first tranche of university application figures, I posed five questions for judging what they meant. Now the full figures are out, how to do they compare to those five tests? Let’s see… When comparing figures, how do they look when counted not in simple numbers but as [...]
Local liberal heroes: Tracy Ismail
Earlier in the year, I penned a series of posts profiling forgotten liberal heroes (to which a couple of other people also kindly contributed), looking at some of those who achieved great things for liberalism in their time but have been unjustly forgotten – such as Margaret Wintringham, the very first female Liberal MP. There is also [...]
After the Coalition: A Conservative agenda for Britain
Collections of policy essays from new or junior MPs rarely have much of an impact or shelf-life in British politics, but however fallible their predictions for the future they can be illuminating about the current state of the authors’ party and its broad ideological direction. So it is with After the Coalition which is very different [...]
Ten tips for running a better local party AGM
Despite the weather’s recent best efforts to pretend we are currently in June and in the south of France, the encroaching nights mean that local party AGM season is nearly upon us. To help local parties get the most out of them, I’ve written in conjunction with London Liberal Democrats a simple factsheet giving 10 [...]
MOO giveaway with Liberal Democrat Voice
We’re pleased to be working alongside the team at MOO in offering a competition to win some great MOO products for our readers. The grand prize winner will get 100 of MOO’s business cards (a product which I’ve been a happy user of for many years) and a ShowCase business card holder. Two runners up [...]
Local liberal heroes: Ruth Dombey
Earlier in the year, I penned a series of posts profiling forgotten liberal heroes (to which a couple of other people also kindly contributed), looking at some of those who achieved great things for liberalism in their time but have been unjustly forgotten – such as Margaret Wintringham, the very first female Liberal MP. There is also [...]
