Archive for mary reid
Community Politics: my speech at Lib Dem conference
There has been for quite a few years a big gap between talk of Community Politics in the Liberal Democrats when it comes to booklets or conference debates and the actual operation of the party and its members. That was the theme of my speech at the Community Politics debate at party conference, where I [...]
Community Politics motion – amendment is in
Thanks to the sterling work of Mary Reid, the amendment to the community politics motion at LibDem conference that I and others have been working on with Mary has been pulled together and submitted. The debate is on the Tuesday afternoon of party conference. Fingers crossed the amendment gets taken for debate, but in the [...]
Amendment to Community Politics motion – signatures wanted
Along with Mary Reid and Kingston Liberal Democrats, I’ve been putting together an amendment for the Community Politics motion set to be debated at the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham. The idea is to take the good ideas in the motion and take them a little further, especially into practical follow-up. The text is below [...]
What question would you like me to ask Vince Cable?
Mary Reid has done an excellent job organising a series of blogger interviews during the Social Liberal Forum conference on Saturday. She’s roped me in to facilitate the one with Vince Cable, which should mean I manage to slip in a question myself too. I’ll be blogging Vince’s answer but I’m a little spoilt for [...]
Who runs the internet? Wikileaks, piracy and censorship
With attempts to control the internet ranging from drastic actions of dictators in the Middle East to democratic debates in the US Congress over an internet ‘kill switch’, and not forgetting the continuing debate over the Digital Economy Act in Britain, The Voice’s fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat spring conference is looking at who has [...]
Yikes – the chances of me being overcharged with Oyster are rather too high for comfort
The two tube stations I use most frequently both feature in the list of stations where the most money has wrongly been taken from people using Oyster cards. The figures have been dug out by Liberal Democrat London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon and show that £862,000 was wrongly taken off passengers at Oxford Circus in [...]
Who runs the internet? Wikileaks, piracy and censorship
We’re once again running a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat spring conference. This time we’re looking at the internet and who is allowed to control whom: Who runs the internet? Wikileaks, piracy and censorship Libel law reform campaigner and former MP Evan Harris, website pioneer Mary Reid, James Blessing of the Internet Service Providers’ [...]
Who runs the internet? Wikileaks, piracy and censorship #ldconf
That’s the title for the fringe meeting the Liberal Democrat Voice team is putting on at the Lib Dem spring conference in Sheffield. Libel law reform campaigner and former MP Evan Harris, website pioneer Mary Reid and Jim Killock of the digital rights champions Open Rights Group will debate recent issues about free speech and [...]
Our Christmas presents guide
Wondering what to get people for Christmas presents? Here’s a selection of what various Liberal Democrat bloggers suggest: Jonathan Calder recommends Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music by Rob Young: “Anyone with an interest in folk music will find this book engrossing. Young traces the rise of the genre from Cecil Sharp and other Edwardian [...]
