Archive for Iain Dale
Eastleigh by-election: 16 February round-up – Dale vs Tall, my visit and other stories
Maria Hutchings, the Conservative candidate, has continued her record of stirring up controversy on the relatively rare occasions when she switches from dodging the media to making public comments.
The Mid-Term Review, with a surprising bonus for Lib Dems
Alongside today’s launch by Nick Clegg and David Cameron of the government’s Mid-Term Review (Slimmed Down Edition) was the launch of six new policies from the government. Or rather the outlines of six new policies, as the details will each get their own day in the media sun in the next few weeks. The surprising [...]
The Blogfather: The best of Iain Dale’s Diary
A selection of Iain Dale’s blog posts from 2004-2012, The Blogfather is a potted history of one of the pioneering political blogs in the UK which helped take blogging from idiosyncratic niche into a mainstream format for covering politics. To his credit, Iain Dale has included several posts where subsequent events showed up his political judgement and he [...]
Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened
Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened, edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale, is the third in a series of collections of ‘what if’ histories (one of which I contributed to myself). This time it is 22 counter-factuals all by different authors, taking events that really happened, adding a little twist and [...]
Telegraph’s annual list of 50 most influential Liberal Democrats is out…
It’s Liberal Democrat conference, so it’s time for the latest Iain Dale / Daily Telegraph list of the 50 most influential Liberal Democrats. Of course our interest in covering the story on Lib Dem Voice is in no way related to two of the team appearing in the list… In less than shocking news, Nick [...]
And the winner is … Samuel Watkin
Congratulations to Samuel Watkin who was the winner of my prize draw for new people signing up to my monthly email newsletter about the Liberal Democrats. A copy of Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened (edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale) is in the post to Samuel and if you’re one of those who missed out, [...]
Win a copy of Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened
Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened (edited by Duncan Brack and Iain Dale) is about to come out in paperback edition and I have a copy to give away as a prize. It’s simple enough: sign up to get my monthly email newsletter before the end of Tuesday and I’ll put your [...]
The Bigger Book of Boris: lots of jokes, not much politics
One of the questions that ambitious politicians often struggle to answer safely is, “Do you want to be leader of your party / Prime Minister?” Answer ‘yes’ in some form and journalists will line up to write stories about party splits, pending leadership challenges and the like. Answer ‘no’ and many will not believe you [...]
Someone likes Liberal Democrat conference…
Over on Dale & Co Gareth Knight writes: Any Conservative, including Iain Dale who attends the Liberal Democrat conference, remarks how impressed they are with the mere fact the conference is where party members openly and robustly confer on policy. The exhibition stands at the Liberal Democrat conference include dozens of party groups as well [...]
Top 50 most influential Lib Dems (according to Iain Dale)
In what has become a regular of party conference season, the Daily Telegraph has published a list of the 50 most influential Liberal Democrats assembled by “Iain Dale, Brian Brivati and a team of Liberal Democrat insiders”: As one MP put it, the year has been “about the rise of the left”. Confidence in the [...]
