How to meet the big challenges of our time: LDN #147
There is striking lesson from the efforts of different countries to tackle coronavirus, efforts that have varied remarkably and tragically in their effectiveness. … Read the full post »
Charles Kennedy
Read about Charles Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat MP and leader of the party 1999-2006. Greg Hurst has written an excellent biography of Charles Kennedy.
How does the electorate really think?
Knowing why people vote the way they do is tough. It’s not just because people may be reluctant to be honest to others about their motivations, but people are also often bad at understanding themselves. … Read the full post »
The Cook-Maclennan talks: lessons in cross-party cooperation
There were initial contacts between Labour leader Tony Blair and the Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown as early as 1993. … Read the full post »
The local government record of Liberal Democrat leaders
Now the wonderful results are all in, and with Vince Cable expected to stand down as Liberal Democrat leader very shortly… … Read the full post »
Wow, what a set of the Liberal Democrat local election results
After a stint of local election campaigning today, I’ll be covering the Liberal Democrat local election results in the next edition of Liberal Democrat Newswire. … Read the full post »
Lessons from the 2001 general election for the future of the Lib Dems
At the time, both inside the Liberal Democrats and outside the party, the 2001 general election appeared to be a good result. … Read the full post »
How they used to do party political broadcasts: the Liberal Democrats in 1988
A blast from the past with one of the 1988 local election broadcasts from the Social and Liberal Democrats (then in its brief post-merger phrase of trying to go by the short name of The Democrats). … Read the full post »
Weirdest poll finding of 2017: Liberal Democrat Newswire #106
It’s been another period of rapid growth for the readership of Lib Dem Newswire, with subscriber numbers nearly doubling already since January 1st. … Read the full post »
Lib Dem membership hits record high
Membership of the Liberal Democrats has now surpassed its previous 1992 peak and is at its highest level in the history of the party. … Read the full post »
How The Sun viewed Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy comes out of the Sun front page on Iraq rather better than The Sun. … Read the full post »