Weekly catchup 18th-24th Feb

If you were reading last week, you’ll have seen we’ve decided to make life easier for our readers with a once-weekly post of all of the previous week’s highlights. For the best of LDV,  just click the “Catchup” category.

Guest writers this week included Lib Dem Shadow Defence Minister Nick Harvey MP writing about our overstretched armed forces, and Sunny Hindal took the opportunity of our Independent View slot to write a piece about the website Liberal Conspiracy. The man so popular Jonathan Calder founded a cult in his honour, Vince Cable MP, also found time this week to write about his thoughts on the non-dom issue.

Something for the Weekend, penned by the Voice’s own Will Howells from the fair shores of Llandudno, updated us on the happenings at the party’s Welsh conference, for which we can only say diolch before we run out of Welsh.  The position of LDV’s Welsh Correspondent is still up for grabs – if you’re interested.

Comments have been lower this week than previously but posts that have caught our readers’ attentions have included a piece on young people and town centres from London LDYS chair Benjamin Mathis and a speech from leader Nick Clegg about supermarkets under the atrocious pun “trolleygarchs“

The Campaign for Gender Balance announced their shortlist for three categories of excellence amongst women bloggers.  One of the awards is voted on by you, the blogreading public, so don’t miss your chance to influence the outcome.

And finally, it’s been a busy week in the contest for London Mayor again.  Ken’s been playing political tricks, Boris is making an impression on Youtube and Brian is outrunning both of them – one way or another.

Lib Dem Voice is always looking for new contributors on a regular basis or maybe as a one off on an issue you want to talk about.  We are currently also looking for people to contribute to our conference coverage, so if you are intending to come to Liverpool and would like to write for us, please drop me a line at