Good news from the courts today:

A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their immigration test case at London’s High Court.
They were challenging immigration rules which said that those who retired from the British Army before 1997 did not have an automatic right to stay.
Prominent supporter actress Joanna [...]

All last week, Lib Dem Voice published the results of our survey of party members registered for the LDV private members’ forum asking for your views on the Lib Dem conference. For those who missed it, all the results of this and previous surveys are available here. But there was one question right at the [...]

A Twitter update from someone at a fringe meeting at Conservative Party conference addressed by Nadine Dorries MP:
#cons08 blogging mp nadine again comments about the number of times the chief whip has told her to remove a blog post (Source)
Hat-tip: Tim Ireland

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It’s rare for an internal Lib Dem party contest (other than for leader) to start making headlines on the BBC website, but the presence of Lembit Opik as a candidate for party president has achieved just that, with this report on his Facebook campaign page.
That is of course the Catch-22 of Lembit’s campaign for [...]

Internet users - myself included - have got used to relying on free online services which rely heavily on either online advertising or investors being willing to put up large pots of money even when there isn’t a clear way of turning users into income.
Many of the services have become such a key part of [...]

Good if very succinct analysis over at MyDD: overwhelmingly those in close races for their re-election voted against the bail out.

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Welcome to the 84th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (20-27th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.
How about starting with the most popular blog-posting, and we work our way down? Here goes:

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There’s been a double-dose of criticism from the Spectator today for Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft and his refusal to come clean on whether he has kept the promise he made at the time he was made a peer.
As I’ve blogged before (such as here), on being appointed to the House of Lords, Lord Ashcroft promised [...]

Society - broken or not? Looks like someone can’t make up their minds:

Cameron retreats from his claim that Britain has a ‘broken’ society (Independent)
BBC must help to heal the broken society, say Tories (Telegraph)

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On 27th September the latest “Inspiration Day” was held in London by the Campaign for Gender Balance. These are friendly and informal events, designed to give female members the opportunity to learn more about becoming more active in the Liberal Democrats.
More than fifty women attended Saturday’s session, which included advice on becoming an MP, [...]

From The Independent:
All the building societies that transformed themselves into banks quoted on the stock exchange between 1989, starting with the old Abbey National, and 2000, when Bradford & Bingley took the plunge, have either failed or had to be rescued. Following Bradford & Bingley’s demise, there is not one left.
Meanwhile the building societies which [...]

A quick follow-up to the questions over BPIX’s secrecy: the British Polling Council has confirmed that BPIX has never approached it with a view to joining.

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Previously, on Lib Dem Voice…
MP Lynne Featherstone penned us an article on the brittleness of British politics; Alisdair Murray fed back on how joint Lib/Lab meetings went at both our conference and theirs; Jeremy Hargreaves let us know about the Lib Dem Hospital Governor’s Network; Tom Papworth shared his views about tax; and Rob Blackie [...]

From the Sunday Mirror:
One of David Cameron’s Shadow Cabinet has been exposed for misleading the public after suggesting his London base is a leaky ex-council flat with faulty wiring.
In fact Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Chris Grayling is a wealthy landlord with FOUR homes worth at least £2million…
Mr Grayling said [in an interview published on [...]

From the Mail on Sunday:
David Cameron faced embarrassment on the eve of his party conference last night after members of a secretive club of Tory donors were linked to the ‘short-selling’ of the collapsing Bradford & Bingley.
As the bank was taken into the hands of the authorities ahead of its break-up or nationalisation, two members [...]

Keith Vaz is already facing an investigation over allegations that he interfered in a court case to help a Labour Party donor, and now is also facing allegations of secretly letting Gordon Brown influence the outcome of an independent inquiry into 28-days detention:
Keith Vaz, the chairman of the home affairs select committee, sought the private [...]

Haivng criticised the polling firm BPIX yesterday for - uniquely amongst those doing published political polling in the UK - not being a member of the British Polling Council and not even getting anywhere close to its standards for transparency, I thought I’d have another try at contacting them today.
They’ve never replied to any of [...]

The Sunday Telegraph is running an opinion poll tomorrow about the levels of support for each party, commissioned from the pollster firm BPIX. It’s a switch from their usual pollster, and only the second time since the 2005 general election that BPIX has been used by a paper other than the Mail on Sunday.
It’s therefore [...]