Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #379

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 379th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (8-,14 June 2014), together with a hand-picked quintet, you might otherwise have missed.

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As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

1. 8 quick points about today’s speech by Nick Clegg by Mark Pack on Mark Pack.
Mark analyses Nick’s Bloomberg speech and would like to see a bit more respect for the party’s policy making processes.

2. South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats select a candidate by Mark Valladares on The View from Creeting St Peter.
A Count and Tell exclusive from the Returning Officer.

3. New picture of Ed standing up to Rupert Murdoch by Carl Minns on A liberal view from Hull.
At least Nick didn’t actually appear to read it…

4. Scottish charity Twitter account calls J K Rowlng a “bitch” by me on Caron’s Musings.
They did later say they were hacked. It was a febrile day in the Independence Referemdum though.

5. Nick Clegg will be making a mistake if he appoints Danny Alexander as our economic spokesperson for 2015 by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England.
We have a radically different economic policy, but the public associate Danny with George Osborne, says Jonathan.

6. Clegg’s “Perfect Storm” poster by Dan Falchikov on Living on Words Alone.
Dan delivers his verdict on Clegg’s skills.

7. No new coalition at any cost by Peter Black on Peter Black.
Some technological hissy fit means I can’t access Peter’s blog means I can’t tell you what this is about, but go read it anyway.

And now to the five blog-posts that come highly recommended, regardless of the number of Aggregator click-throughs they attracted. To nominate a Lib Dem blog article published in the past seven days – your own, or someone else’s, all you have to do is drop a line to [email protected]. You can also contact us via Twitter, where we’re @libdemvoice

8. Would I have been as brave? by Richard Kemp on But what does Richard Kemp think?
An old letter from his father to his mother makes Richard reflect on what war asks of people and how they get through it.

9. On political positioning (and why my wife is over 35) by Jennie Rigg on The Nightmare world of cake and pie and tarts and buns.
Jennie says we need to behave like liberals to avoid becoming an asterisk

10. On fighting for what you believe in and leaving things behind by Tim Oliver on Armour Plated Liberalism.
Tim fears this will be his last year in the Liberal Democrats. (Submitted by Matt Downey via Twitter)

11. In defence of the Social Liberal Forum by Joshua Dixon on Liberal Insight.
Joshua responds to Tim’s post above by saying that people need to treat each other with respect within the party.

12. Helping others – 10 years as a Ceredigion County Councillor by Mark Cole on A life inside and outside of politics.
Reflections on a decade of public service.

And that’s it for another week. Happy blogging ‘n’ reading ‘n’ nominating.

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