It’s time to focus not on parliamentary games, but on real life – Tim Farron speech at York conference
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Tony Greaves
Liberal Democrat peer Tony Greaves is best known for his contribution to the party’s local government work, starting with playing a key role in making the Liberal Party pay much more attention to its importance.
Imagine successfully running a coalition with both John Redwood and Tony Greaves in the Cabinet
Imagine not only putting together a Cabinet containing the equivalents of both John Redwood and Tony Greaves, but also… … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrat approach to campaigning: the history and debunking some myths
Fail to understand what happened in 1997 and why and you not only fail to understand British political campaigning but also, closer to home, fail to understand the roots of more recent events involving Chris Rennard. … Read the full post »
Five things the Federal Executive should learn from its mistakes
It would take the skills of Hercule Poirot combined with the phone and email database of GCHQ to definitively cast a verdict on individual responsibilities. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Newswire #28: Who won? Who lost? The Lib Dem committee election results
Liberal Democrat Newswire #28 reports on the results of an important set of internal Liberal Democrat elections for bodies such as the party’s Federal Policy Committee (FPC). … Read the full post »
1 in 4 of York’s litter bins to go in Labour council’s cuts
Having done my doctorate at York University, news from the city still sometimes catches my eye, especially as York is… … Read the full post »
Tony Greaves: From angry young man to simmering old guru
There is something a little incongruous about the notion of the Liberal Democrats’ oldest angry young man donning the ermine of a peer of the realm. … Read the full post »
Conference preview: party strategy
The prime author of this year’s strategy paper is one of the founding fathers of Community Politics and the author of the triple lock, Gordon Lishman. … Read the full post »
The flawed strategy of the SDP
Now available for free download is Journal of Liberal History 45 (winter 2004-05). … Read the full post »