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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #211

By The Voice | Sun 6th March 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 211th 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 (27 February -5 March, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 6th March 2011 - 11:55 am

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are four simple ways:

1. Let us have your tips for stories. Perhaps there’s something outrageous going on in your local council? Or you’re an expert in a particular area and have spotted a story other people have missed? Or you’ve seen …

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The LDV Friday Five: 4 March 2011

By The Voice | Fri 4th March 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Opinion: Why Nick Clegg is probably right not to meet Gary McKinnon’s mother (49 comments) by Caron Lindsay
  2. Economic statistic of the week: how the cuts compare (29 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Opinion: Baroness Williams shows how to disagree with coalition policy with grace (10 comments) by Lisa Harding
  4. Charles Kennedy MP: No2AV ads “shocking and outrageous” (17 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Opinion: Why I will be making trouble for the census (8 comments) by Simon Beard

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. On AV
  2. Deputy PMQs
  3. MPs and tithing
  4. Photo passes – Sheffield
  5. A series of Free Speech suggestions for the Freedom Bill

5 from the LDV archive

(4th March, 2007-10)

  1. Web blocking and the Lords (4 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
  2. LDV readers say: no bonuses for bankers (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. Scottish Lib Dems call for end to “chatter about the constitution” (2 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. Future party policies – your chance to shape them (2 comments) by Jeremy Hargreaves, from 2008
  5. Opinion: Coalition questions are premature (3 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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Barnsley Central result: Labour win, Lib Dems sixth

By The Voice | Fri 4th March 2011 - 7:34 am

Dan Jarvis (Lab) 14,724
Jane Collins (UKIP) 2,953
James Hockney (C) 1,999
Enis Dalton (BNP) 1,463
Tony Devoy (Ind) 1,266
Dominic Carman (LD) 1,012
Kevin Riddiough (Eng Dem) 544
Howling Laud Hope (Loony) 198
Michael Val Davies (Ind) 60

Turnout 36.5%

Party president Tim Farron said: “It was a poor result for us. It was a poor result for the Tories. The coalition parties didn’t do very well here. Surprise, surprise.”

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Coalition drops plans to allow Ministers to scrap quangos without consulting Parliament

By The Voice | Wed 2nd March 2011 - 5:53 pm

The Government has abandoned plans to give ministers sweeping powers to scrap quangos without consulting MPs.

From the Telegraph:

The Public Bodies Bill has been proposed by the Coalition to allow ministers to abolish almost 200 public bodies including the Audit Commission and the Film Council.

It would also give ministers extensive new legal powers to order changes to another 150 public bodies using secondary legislation, meaning they could be abolished without further parliamentary approval.

Such powers are often called “Henry VIII” powers in reference to the Tudor monarch’s autocratic rule.

After a report by the Lords Constitution Committee, which said they would …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #210

By The Voice | Sun 27th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 210th 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 (20th – 26th February, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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

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LibLink: Danny Alexander… We’re not giving nice cover to nasty Tory cuts

By The Voice | Sat 26th February 2011 - 11:53 am

Today’s Times (£) features an interview with Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, which touches on Coalition cuts, the Budget, banks, Nick Clegg, electoral pact rumours – and even red squirrels.

Here’s a taster:

“One of the things about a coalition is it’s two different parties, with different policies and different thinking. The only way you can deal with things is through discussion based on evidence and it does mean that you have a bit more formality about the processes of government than perhaps existed before.”

When he took over at the Treasury, his predecessor left him a note saying

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The LDV Friday Five: 25 February 2011

By The Voice | Fri 25th February 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Opinion: Economic liberalism and public service reform (58 comments) by Alex Marsh
  2. Clegg shows Sheffield he’s up for the fight (31 comments) by Helen Duffett
  3. Clegg and Miliband both campaign for a Yes vote in referendum (60 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. Conservative Councillor: Those opposing AV should stop their “misleading statements” (27 comments) by Nick Thornsby
  5. Opinion: Taxing stuff – what George Monbiot got wrong (41 comments) by Max Teuerman

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Radio 4 Analysis: the Orange Book
  2. Cameron and Clegg disagree on public service reform
  3. Mid East/North african protest movements
  4. Campaign Update
  5. Liberal Democrats – Party of the Middle 80%

5 from the LDV archive

(25th February, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: Kill puffins and paint horizontally to save millions (1 comment) by Chris White, from 2010
  2. Cable leads Lib Dem sympathies for the Camerons (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  3. The mysterious case of Mr Clegg, a piece of string and a banana (3 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
  4. Oldham East and Saddleworth looking for a constituency organiser (0 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007
  5. Introducing ‘Top of the Blogs: the Golden Dozen’ (1 comment) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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Mike Hancock MP “horrified” by paedophile slur leaflet

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 9:50 pm

The BBC reports from Southampton Magistrates Court:

A Liberal Democrat MP has described allegations he was a paedophile as “absolutely untrue and offensive”.

Mike Hancock told Southampton Magistrates’ Court he was “horrified” by a leaflet published during last year’s general election.

The court heard Les Cummings, who was standing against the MP, had written: “Mike Hancock is a paedophile”.

He denies making a false statement with the purpose of affecting the result of the election in Portsmouth South.

Mr Cummings, 66, from Portsmouth, is accused of publishing the leaflet last April, while he was standing against Mr Hancock as an independent for the Justice

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Clegg shows Sheffield he’s up for the fight

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 4:28 pm

Nick Clegg’s visit to Sheffield yesterday included the first in a new series of town hall meetings – this one in partnership with local newspaper the Sheffield Star:

THEY say the best form of defence is attack, which is exactly what Sheffield Hallam MP and the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg decided to do by launching a new wave of meet the people sessions, here in his home city.

Mr Clegg is the first to admit he is under fire at the moment. He faces a barrage of criticism about his decision to renege on his promise not to vote for

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LibLink… Paddy Ashdown: Defence cuts? Why, they’ve barely started

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 2:43 pm

In today’s Times (£) Paddy Ashdown argues that the Ministry of Defence is “no longer fit for purpose.”

Ashdown says that the current government are not making enough progress with addressing the Ministry’s problems: the large annual deficit, bureaucratic blunders and project overruns and puts them down to a lack of political direction.

Here’s an excerpt:

The dust is now settling on the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published last October. And what it reveals is that the deeply painful cuts already announced are not going to be enough to balance the books. There will have to be more — there may

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Senior police regular met privately with News of the World staff whilst paper was under investigation

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 12:55 pm

Diary details released by the Metropolitan Police show that senior police officers met personally with senior editorial staff from the News of the World eight times in the last two years alone and a further five times in the previous three years. The tally excludes any general crime briefings or encounters at social events put on by third parties.

Dee Doocey, Liberal Democrat London Assembly Policing Spokesperson, has reacted to this revelation saying,

I find it quite extraordinary that when allegations about illegal phone hacking relating to the News of the World were still unresolved that the Met Commissioner thought it

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LDVideo: A fairer, more democratic, greener, liberal country

By The Voice | Tue 22nd February 2011 - 9:43 am

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #209

By The Voice | Sun 20th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 209th 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 (13th-19th February, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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Lib Dems gain a seat from the Tories in Shropshire

By The Voice | Fri 18th February 2011 - 7:15 pm

New Shropshire Councillor Andrew Bannerrman
Photo also available on Flickr here.

From the Independent:

Liberal Democrats celebrated a gain in the latest council by-elections from Tories who, however, defended two other marginal seats and control of South Cambridgeshire District.

Andrew Bannerman triumphed for Lib Dems at Quarry and Coton Hill, Shropshire despite a strong intervention by Labour which did not fight last time.

The result in Quarry and Coton Hill:

LD Andrew Bannerman 356 (41.8; +5.7)
Con 268 (31.5; -12.1)
Lab 197 (23.1; +23.1)
Ind 30 (3.5; -2.3)

Majority 88
Turnout 30.47%
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The LDV Friday Five: 18 February 2011

By The Voice | Fri 18th February 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Lib Dem council leaders attack Pickles over speed and scale of cuts (42 comments) by Sara Bedford
  2. Eight former Liberal Democrat candidates take part in Labour’s policy-making process (47 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Jeremy Browne writes: Why liberals should support the Big Society (42 comments) by Jeremy Browne MP
  4. Opinion: Taxing stuff – what George Monbiot got wrong (35 comments) by Max Teuerman
  5. Paul Scriven writes: we cannot let Labour off the hook on Council cuts (52 comments) by Paul Scriven

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. NUS leaked memo says tuition fees system “progressive”
  2. A good week for social liberals …
  3. Changing education paradigms
  4. Time to reduce tax on fags
  5. Some funny pictures

5 from the LDV archive

(18th February, 2008-10)

  1. What will the impact be of MPs’ expenses on turnout? (1 comment) by Mark Pack, from 2010
  2. BBC issues usual Question Time non-response (14 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Opinion: Why we should be learning lessons from Howard Dean (1 comment) by Lynne Featherstone MP, from 2009
  4. Kennedy up for election (3 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
  5. Opinion: non-domiciles and tax (17 comments) by Vince Cable MP, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

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Labour councils cut more jobs than Tory or Lib Dem areas

By The Voice | Tue 15th February 2011 - 5:22 pm

Labour councils are cutting far more jobs than their Conservative and Liberal Democrat neighbours – on average 50% more than Tory councils, according to figures revealed by the Guardian:

Labour authorities have issued on average 745 job “at-risk” notifications, compared with 498 and 414 respectively from Tory and Lib Dem councils.

The figures are the first to confirm that Labour councils are making bigger cuts and appear to bolster claims by David Cameron and Nick Clegg that Labour councils are cutting and then blaming the coalition for “politically motivated” reasons.

However, the Guardian’s analysis also reveals that Labour authorities are suffering the

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #208

By The Voice | Sun 13th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 208th 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 (6th-12th February, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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The LDV Friday Five: 11 February 2011

By The Voice | Fri 11th February 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Lord Oakeshott departs as a Lib Dem Treasury spokesman (44 comments) by Mark Pack
  2. What Labour’s manifesto actually said about electoral reform (64 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Lib Dem council leaders attack Pickles over speed and scale of cuts (31 comments) by Sara Bedford
  4. Opinion: there are better adjectives for the Labour Party than ‘progressive’ (55 comments) by Richard Morris
  5. What the think tanks are saying: The IPPR on “How much is Labour to blame?” (25 comments) by George Kendall

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. How do we get the achievements in coalition message across?
  2. Votes for Prisoners
  3. Egypt
  4. Tax evasion/avoidance
  5. PPCs for the next General Election

5 from the LDV archive

(11th February, 2007-10)

  1. LDV party members’ survey: Nick Clegg approval rating at +66% (0 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. How can we sell the Single Transferable Vote to the public? (40 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  3. Evan sticks up for drug adviser in ecstasy row (5 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  4. DLT: Community Politics (5 comments) by Sictionary of Liberal Thought, from 2008
  5. Lib Dem MPs flock to Facebook (3 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Peers who voted against AV will now use it in their own by-election

By The Voice | Wed 9th February 2011 - 11:11 am

Peers who are currently trying to block a referendum on the use of the Alternative Vote in General Elections are about to use AV to replace one of their own members in the House of Lords.

The BBC’s James Landale reports:

The cause of this absurdity is the late Lord Strabolgi, a legend in the House of Lords, who died last December, aged 96.

He was one of 92 hereditary peers who were allowed to remain in the Lords in 1999 when all the others were kicked out.

It was agreed then that when any of the 92 died, there would be a

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How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Tue 8th February 2011 - 8:55 am

The Voice is only a success because of the interest and support from our readers. For many people just lurking and reading the site is all they want to do – and that’s fine, we’re grateful for people taking the time to read the site.

You can though help us continue to produce interesting content for a growing audience. Here are three simple ways:

1. Let us have your tips for stories. Perhaps there’s something outrageous going on in your local council? Or you’re an expert in a particular area and have spotted a story other people have missed? Or you’ve seen …

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #207

By The Voice | Sun 6th February 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 207th 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 (30th January -5th February, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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Ed Miliband’s Director of Strategy tells MPs: lay off Rupert Murdoch

By The Voice | Wed 2nd February 2011 - 6:40 pm

Via the New Statesman website:

An email, forwarded on behalf of Ed Miliband’s director of strategy, Tom Baldwin, to all shadow cabinet teams warns Labour spokespeople to avoid linking hacking with the BSkyB bid, to accept ministerial assurances that meetings with Rupert Murdoch are not influencing that process, and to ensure that complaints about tapping are made in a personal, not shadow ministerial, capacity…

It goes on: “Downing Street says that Cameron’s dinners with Murdoch will not affect Hunt’s judgement. We have to take them at their word.” …

The guidance concludes with the warning, “We must guard against anything which appears

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“Lost” emails found in News International phone-hacking case

By The Voice | Mon 31st January 2011 - 1:07 pm

Via The Independent:

A “lost” hoard of emails sent by senior executives in Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire at the height of the phone-hacking scandal has been found, The Independent has learnt.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police are now expected to examine the database of emails in their renewed search for News of the World journalists who may have hacked into mobile phone messages or hired private detectives to do so in breach of privacy laws…

The claim that emails had been lost was made by the News of the World’s Scotland editor Bob Bird during the perjury trial of the former Scottish

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #206

By The Voice | Sun 30th January 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 206th 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 (23rd -29th January, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

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

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The LDV Friday Five: 28 January 2011

By The Voice | Fri 28th January 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. ID cards to be scrapped at midnight tonight (8 comments) by Helen Duffett
  2. Economy shrinks by 0.5% (67 comments) by Iain Roberts
  3. Labour’s plan to scrap the EMA (71 comments) by Iain Roberts
  4. Lib Dems GAIN Marl, Conwy (and other by-election results from Jan 20) (29 comments) by Helen Duffett
  5. Anti-terrorism review: 6 questions to judge the government by (38 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Of mergers, pacts, alliances and secret deals
  2. Equalising constituency sizes
  3. Tax evasion/avoidance
  4. Which Hat do you wear normally?
  5. Anyone for the EU?

5 from the LDV archive

(28th January, 2006-2010)

  1. New Lib Dem members’ site goes live (7 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. Three “disgusting, eco-fascist, bullying” questions for Conservatives (3 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2010
  3. If Gordon’s a “glum optimist” and Dave’s a “perky doom-monger”, can Nick be the “honest optimist”? (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  4. Who has more power? A council chief exec, council leader or a local MP? (8 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
  5. Thorpe’s advice to Clegg: don’t go into coalition (9 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Clegg signals Coalition to emphasise growth over cuts in coming years

By The Voice | Thu 27th January 2011 - 9:58 am

Today’s Financial Times carries an interview with Nick Clegg in which he signals the Coalition is shifting its attention towards promoting growth after the last eight months’ focus on cuts:

The deputy prime minister admitted the 0.5 per cent fall in economic output at the end of last year was “very disappointing” but said that rebuilding the public finances was an essential plank of restoring growth.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Clegg said he would tell world financial leaders at Davos that the coalition would not be deflected by increasingly strong Labour attacks on its economic policy. “We will maintain

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #205

By The Voice | Sun 23rd January 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 205th 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 (16th-22nd January, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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The LDV Friday Five: 21 January 2011

By The Voice | Fri 21st January 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Oldham East and Saddleworth results thread (79 comments) by The Voice
  2. After Oldham: what does the result mean for the party’s targeting strategy? (82 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. Tim Farron writes… Oldham proves rumours of the Lib Dems’ death have been greatly exaggerated (71 comments) by Tim Farron MP
  4. The Independent View: Confusing, exciting and terrifying times for those on the liberal left (97 comments) by Neal Lawson
  5. “By-election was a hard-fought contest” – Clegg (61 comments) by Helen Duffett

5 from the LDV archive

(21st January, 2006-10)

  1. When should the state intervene? RBS, Kraft & Cadbury and the Eternal Liberal Dilemma (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
  2. Mass gathering in defence of street photography #phnat (2 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
  3. MPs expenses – yes we can! (4 comments) by Alix Mortimer, from 2009
  4. Coalitions and minority government across Britain (0 comments) by Centre Forum, from 2008
  5. Confessions of a ‘Newbie’ (4 comments) by Mark Thompson, from 2009

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Party strategy paper and more at Spring Conference
  2. Lesson to be learnt from Oldham East and Saddleworth
  3. Hidden speed cameras
  4. A letter? To me? From Nick Clegg?
  5. Putting Lib Dems at the forefront of drug policy debate

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

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Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #204

By The Voice | Sun 16th January 2011 - 7:00 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 204th 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 (9th-15th January, 2011), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

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

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