Author Archives: Stephen Tall

The last four months have gone so quickly… welcome to the 16th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (3rd – 9th June), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

(And my thanks, again, to my LDV and Oxford city council colleague, Richard Huzzey, for holding the fort last week while I was wandering round the Louvre.)

Without further frolicking, let’s get down to business:

1. ‘Returning officer reports into Leyton and Wanstead PPC contest leaked’ by Stephen Tall on Lib Dem Voice. …

Welcome to the 14th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (20th-26th May), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

(And my thanks, parenthetically, to my LDV and Oxford city council colleague, Richard Huzzey, for holding the fort last week with his customary aplomb.)

So, here we go on another roller-coaster ride:

1. ‘Checking out the local election results’ on Pink Dog’s blog
The usual in-depth analysis from the Lib Dems’ colourful canine psephologist.

2. ‘Liberal Democrats win Dudden Hill by-election’ by Pink …

Welcome to the twelfth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (6th-12th May), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Let’s get this party started…

1. ‘Iain Dale, Wales, and why blogs should never be trusted’ on Duncan Borrowman’s blog.
A trenchant refutation of Duncan’s role in the Lib Dems’ Welsh campaign.

2. ‘Oxford: Tory-free for much longer?’ on (ahem) Stephen Tall’s A Liberal Goes A Long Way blog.
Are the Tories about to land some hand-me-down representation in Oxford?

3. ‘Lies, damn lies, …

Welcome to the eleventh of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (29th April – 6th May), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Rather unsurprisingly, this week’s selection is dominated by Thursday’s local elections. So here is our ‘mixed bag’ analysing that ‘mixed bag’:

1. ‘Lessons to be learned for the Lib Dems’ on Nich Starling’s Norfolk Blogger blog.
Three reasons why the Lib Dems failed (at least in those areas where we did fail).

2. ‘Those Local Election Results: Get a Grip’ on …

And into double figures… Here is the tenth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (22nd-28th April), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Let the fun commence:

1. ‘Newsnight predict Labour meltdown’ on Paul Walter’s Liberal Burblings blog.
Let’s just hope that this year their prediction is accurate.

2. ‘Which PPC?’ on Justine McGuinness’s blog.
For 24 hours the blogosphere buzzed – order was soon restored.

3. ‘Peter Tatchell will help secure another famous Lib Dem win’ on Nich Starling’s Nofolk Blogger …

The ninth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere is back in its rightful Sunday afternoon position, and features the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (15th-21st April), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Without further ado:

1. ‘“It has been an absolute public relations disaster”’ by Mark Pack on Lib Dem Voice.
No, not David Cameron’s bizarre London mayoralty own goal… something completely different.

2. ‘One for all us political hacks…’ on Neil Woolcott’s blog.
Some bloggers, it seems, just can’t get enough of political leaflets.

3. ‘I Hereby Declare …

Some of you may have been wondering where the eighth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere – featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed – had got to.

Well, here’s your answer.

I’ve been away – hence the late posting, and lack of hand-picked quintet – but I did diligently check the Aggregator stats last Sunday (from the other side of the world), and what follows is the 10 most clicked-though items between 9th and 15th April.

Allegedly… Because I’ve a sneaking suspicion there …

The seventh of our weekly† round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Let’s kick-off, in time-honoured descending order of popularity:

1. ‘Richard Porter: “Why I defected to the Tories”’ on Jonny Wright’s Hug A Hoodie blog.
Does a Lib Dem PPC who defected last year really believe the Tory leopard has changed its spots?

2. ‘Nominations – what a disaster’ on Colin Ross’s website.
A tantalisingly doom-laden headline from our Midlands correspondent.

3. ‘Idiots banned from standing for election’ on Matt …

The sixth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

A rather eclectic mix this week, in descending order of popularity:

1. ‘Nick Clegg’s Leadership Plans’ on Linda Jack’s Lindyloo’s Muze blog.
Linda teases her readers with a promise of the inside-track on the Sheffield Hallam MP’s always-honourable intentions…

2. ‘Pics from the inside of the stately home of the Lord Rennard’ on Jonathan Wallace’s blog
Yes, it turns out Lib Dem blog readers are just as

…

The fifth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

Budgets and by-elections dominate this week’s selection. So, here we go, in descending order of popularity:

1. ‘Labour annihilated & Tory defection to Lib Dems’ on Matt Davies’s blog.
Highlighting this week’s sensational council by-election victory by the Lib Dems in Nottinghamshire, and a Tory defection to the party in Torbay.

2. ‘How David Laws scored one over the Tories’ by Mark Pack on Lib Dem Voice.
A gold …

The fourth of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

After last week’s post-Harrogate post mortem, this week’s list has a more eclectic feel. So, here we go, in descending order of popularity:

1. ‘Lembit’s played a blinder!’ from Nich Starling’s Norfolk Blogger blog.
Deserved praise for Mr Öpik’s barnstorming Question Time performance.

2. ‘BREAKING NEWS New Lib Dem candidate for London Mayor?’ from Pink Dog’s eponymous blog.
No, not Lembit despite the rumours. Ken must already be …

The third of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories as listed on the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

And there’s no doubt what’s been exercising our bloggers and their readers in the last seven days: that Harrogate speech by Ming Campbell, and the subsequent media reporting. So, here we go, in order of popularity:

1. ‘How to turn an average speech into a total disaster’ on Jonny Wright’s ‘Hug a Hoodie’ blog.
Impressed by Saturday’s Trident debate, depressed by Ming’s speech and the party’s spin machine on …

The second of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories as listed on the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.

So, here we go, in order of popularity:

1. ‘Ming: “Put up or shut up”’ from Jonathan Calder’s Liberal England blog.
A two-word put down from Lord Bonkers’ confidante.
2. ‘Lib Dems spinning out of control’, again from Jonathan Calder’s Liberal England blog.
Whose fault was the misleading post-match analysis of Ming Campbell’s spring conference speech?
3. ‘61 and stunning!’ from Duncan Borrowman’s eponymous blog.
Proving a picture really can be …

Welcome to this, the first Lib Dem ‘Top of the Blogs’. The idea is simple enough. Each week, we’ll list the top postings which have appeared on the Lib Dem Blogs Aggregator during the previous seven days. And then I’ll hand-pick another five you might have otherwise missed to showcase the diversity of talent within the Lib Dem blogosphere.

So, without further ado, and in order of popularity…

1. ‘Susanne Lamido’ from Rob Fenwick’s ‘Posh Sounding Northumbrian’ blog. I’m making no comment on this one.
2. ‘Liberal Surge in Polls’ from Alex Wilcock’s ‘Love and Liberty’ blog. I don’t think it …