Mark Pack

Journalists seem to have got a thing about the triple lock today, talking about how they've dug it up or found it hard to find. So far be it from me to tell them what to read, but back in November last year I posted up the text on Liberal Democrat  Voice. [Insert cliche of [...] »

I've done a review of the new book, "Why Vote Liberal Democrat" (edited by Danny Alexander), over on Liberal Democrat Voice: Danny Alexander may be the main name on it, but he is the editor – and the book is a collection of twenty-six short essays plus a foreword from Nick Clegg. Many of the authors [...] »

That headline is of course completely unrelated to Iain's comment about the quality of the Liberal Democrat email campaigns made here (start listening around 16:20 to get the context)  »

I wrote the following piece from the Election 2010 edition of Behind The Spin, an online magazine for public relations students and young PR  practitioners, expanding on some of my previous posts: When it comes to numbers, coverage of politics in the UK tends to be rather mesmerised by opinion poll ratings and seat projections. However, there [...] »

I've been compiling a list of Liberal Democrat MPs on Twitter, which I've shared so you can conveniently follow them all in one place [insert joke of choice here]: http://twitter.com/#/list/markpack/libdem-mps PS Do let me know if you spot any errors or omissions.  »

Whether it is outsiders commenting on how parties and politicians use the internet, or people comparing their own party with others, or an individual looking to assess different website suppliers, reviews of political websites are a frequent occurrence. Across these reviews there are several very commonly made mistakes. Watch out for those explained below and [...] »

This review of The Decline of British Radicalism 1847-1860 by Miles Taylor (1995) first appeared in 1996 in the Journal of Liberal History Issue 11. Miles Taylor's book is an examination of the failure of British radicalism in the 1850s. For many the mere appearance of a book that concentrates on the 1850s in their own [...] »

Whilst I was in Canada, there was a Provincial election under way in British Columbia. I snapped a few photos of the election posters as some things struck me in particular about them: 1. Both the two main parties in the Provincial elections (Liberals and NDP) predominantly used blue on their posters, and it also featured [...] »

This review of The Liberal Democrats, edited by Don Maciver (1996) was published in 1996. The book is still a significant and interesting source of information for people wanting to know more about the history of the party. This book is the first major book-length study of the Liberal Democrats, comprising eleven chapters written by “a [...] »