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The past, the present, the future: what Liberal Democrats told WinkBall
In the run-up to the Liberal Democrat autumn federal conference, WinkBall is carrying out a series of short video interviews with different Liberal Democrats about the past year, the current political situation and what the future holds. There are three video interviews up so far: Mark Thompson Maelo Manning Mark Pack Watch out for more [...]
How complicated is the Alternative Vote?
This graphic is from Anthony Smith via Mark Thompson:
Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Daisy Benson
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Daisy Benson who blogs at www.daisyscampaigndiary.blogspot.com. 1. What’s your formative political memory? The morning after the 1992 election – remembering my parents’ disappointment that Labour hadn’t won [...]
David Cameron claims ignorance and getting online content: posts of the week
Welcome to my weekly round-up of two blogging highlights from the past week: the post that I found most interesting or enjoyable to write and the post from someone else that I found most interesting or entertaining. A post from me… Online politics: get your content by following the ‘little and often’ rule Whether it’s [...]
Mark Thompson is back blogging… sort of
Excellent news from Mark Thompson: I have been largely silent on this blog since mid-August when I announced that I would no longer be blogging. There was one exception earlier this month when I blogged about tuition fees (I felt like I *had* to say something!) and I have done a couple of guest posts [...]
Role reversal for the Liberal Democrats
Hopi Sen has blogged thoughtfully several times recently about the risk to Labour of slipping into focusing on the tactics without getting the strategy right. In Labour’s case that means, for example, an undue focus on how to next best shout – “those cuts are awful!” rather than working out how to deal with the [...]
Thank you for your votes
Thank you to everyone who voted for this blog in the Total Politics blog poll, propelling it up from 36 last year to number 5 this year in the list of Liberal Democrat blogs. Thanks too for those who voted for Liberal Democrat Voice, which I co-edit and moved up from number 2 to number [...]
Mark Reckons is Mark Thompson who is not Mark Thompson nor Mark Pack
A couple of days ago I was (again) wrongly given credit by someone for an astute blog post. After bluffing for a little while, thinking “Did I really write something about that?”, I realised it was another case of mistaken identity – someone had read a post on Mark Reckons and thought it was by me. [...]
Orange's digital election analysis
Or rather more accurately, Anthony Painter’s digital election analysis conducted for Orange can be read below. The launch of the report included handing out a set of prizes, as Mark Thompson has reported. Particular congratulations to Lynne Featherstone (Lib Dem MP for Hornsey & Wood Green and now a Home Office minister) who scooped the [...]
Welcome to Lib Dem TV
Liberal Democrat blogger Mark Thompson has launched a new site, Lib Dem TV:
On it I intend to put up any interviews or other sorts of footage involving Lib Dem members and candidates that I can generate. I am also happy to post any relevant footage from other Lib Dem activists that might be of interest [...]
