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Ashdown, Glover and Williams on the party’s history

By Mark Pack | Published 25th January 2012 - 10:25 am

The latest edition of the Journal of Liberal History caries this account from me of the conference meeting which launched the new history of the party, Peace, Reform and Liberation. You can watch the meeting in full here.

It would be a brave person who walked up to Paddy Ashdown or Shirley Williams and told them to their face that they are history, or even old, but they are two of the most charismatic, interesting and thoughtful members of the living history class – people who have been around in politics long enough to be able to talk at first …

Posted in News | Also tagged duncan brack, history, paddy ashdown, shirley williams | 2 Comments

VIDEO: Paddy Ashdown, Shirley Williams and Julian Glover on the Liberal Democrats, recession and The Guardian

By Mark Pack | Published 23rd December 2011 - 10:55 am

You can now watch again in full one of the best fringe meetings from the party conference, which saw Paddy Ashdown, Shirley Williams and the then Guardian editorial writer Julian Glover launch a new history of the party and its predecessors, Peace, Reform and Liberation.*

Julian Glover gave a very funny speech about his newspaper’s love/hate relationship with the party – “So there you have it, 150 years from The Guardian and the Manchester Guardian calling on the Liberal Party and the Liberal Democrats to be brave, radical; praising the party’s policies and then writing it off as irrelevant”.

Shirley Williams …

Posted in News | Also tagged featured, history, liberal democrat history group, paddy ashdown, shirley williams, the guardian | Leave a comment

Redrawing the Parliamentary boundaries: busting some myths

By Mark Pack | Published 7th September 2011 - 8:45 am

With the Boundary Commission for England set to publish its provisional proposals for England’s Parliamentary constituencies next week, expect plenty of talk about how the process will then work with the initial consultation period, the public hearings and then the post-Christmas period for further written submissions. However, on past form there is likely to be quite a lot of mistakes or misinformation about how the review process works. The Guardian, for example, has been particularly poor when it has not been Julian Glover writing pieces.

So in an attempt to guide you through the information, here are some of the myths …

Posted in Election law | Also tagged lewis baston, parliamentary boundaries, parliamentary boundary review | 6 Comments

Paul Tyler writes… Radicals and reactionaries on the red benches

By Paul Tyler | Published 2nd February 2011 - 1:00 pm

Julian Glover, writing on the Guardian website, has called the situation in the House of Lords well today. “This is a ceasefire not an armistice,” he says.

As of midday today (Wednesday), Lord “Charlie” Falconer appears to have retreated from the undertakings he was giving earlier in the week to expedite the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies (PVSC) Bill. Labour Peers are apparently determined both delay and elongate the Report Stage, so making it impossible for the AV referendum to take place on May 5th. As Julian Glover says, “the behaviour of a gang of timeserving Labour …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged av referendum, chris rennard, electoral reform, Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill | 8 Comments

LibLink: Julian Glover – Ten tips for the Liberal Democrats

By NewsHound | Published 4th November 2010 - 10:15 am

The Guardian’s Julian Glover is one of the very few commentators to emerge as a True Believer in the Coalition, and a champion of the Lib Dems’ role within it… much to the undisguised fury of regular inhabitants of the paper’s Comment is Free website. He’s popped up again to offer the party 10 tips to prove the Coalition-sceptics wrong, preserve our identity, and try to establish a distinctive message. It’s well worth reading in full, but here’s three…

1) Don’t panic. There is no crisis. Don’t believe people who tell you that there is. The polls are poor, not catastrophic

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Posted in LibLink | 67 Comments

“Loathe this government if you will…” – 4 points following on from Julian Glover’s must-read Guardian article

By Stephen Tall | Published 18th October 2010 - 7:45 pm

Julian Glover, writing for The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, puts forward a trenchantly pro-Coalition, pro-Clegg line — one that’s guaranteed to attract the ire both of Guardianistas, and of some Voice readers, too. This excerpt offers the substnance of his argument:

Loathe this government if you will, but at least acknowledge that neither side in it got all it wanted at the election and that neither has sold out all of its principles. The strangeness of co-operation exposes its component parts to the easiest of attacks: of promising one thing before an election and doing another after it. But as

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged featured, mark thompson | 100 Comments

Ten questions for conference

By Mark Pack | Published 17th September 2010 - 9:26 am

It’s a fair bet that much of the media coverage of Liberal Democrat conference will be of the form ‘THEY’RE DOOMED!’, with the more subtle coverage for the more discerning journalists being ‘Are they doomed?’.

That has, after all, been the standard media fare since long before the Coalition, since before Nick Clegg became an MP, since before David Cameron became an MP, since before Tony Blair become Labour leader and since before John Major became Prime Minister. My money isn’t on the old standard formula changing this time round for …

Posted in Conference, Op-eds | Also tagged alan travis, electoral reform society, greg hurst, mike hancock, nick clegg, trident | 14 Comments

A polite round of applause directed towards The Times

By Mark Pack | Published 8th February 2010 - 11:18 pm

I wasn’t expecting that.

The Times has reported its latest opinion poll. It has reported the changes in party share of the vote.

And then Peter Riddell has said,

These shifts are within the margin of error

Why’s that impressive? Because nearly every opinion poll only shows changes within the margin of error (you’ve usually got to look over a wider pattern to see statistically significant changes), but that doesn’t stop newspapers writing up their stories as if the changes in support are significant and therefore ones we can be sure actually happened.

It’s as if the newspapers think, “Look, we know the poll doesn’t …

Posted in Polls | Also tagged journalism, peter riddell, the times | 4 Comments

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