The year is but 12 days old and it’s only a little over a week since we last caught up, but already we have dozens of delectable posts to pick over and review for your entertainment.

Just this morning, we had the welcome return of the excerpts from the Dictionary of Liberal Thought with a topical entry on Keynes beginning a three month series on the man, his works and thought, and the Forum that now bears his name.

Our fearless leader underwent celebrated a birthday, we liked Twitter for spurious reasons, we discussed my specialist subject,  getting up in the mornings and considered whether we should respond to online attacks, military style.

We considered weighty topics too: we should stop arming Israel says Clegg, Jonathan Fryer urged us not to forget Burma, and we went into a trance about climate change.

We debated big, permanent tax cuts – Nick Clegg is in favour, David Allen not so much so, and defending his views in the comments, which always leads to lively debate.

News from the Nations now: our second instalment of the Orange Kite from Wales, Y Barcud Oren led to me wondering whether Rhyddfrydol was a hymn tune (I was, of course,  thinking of Hyfrodol. Of course the word looks familiar, it’s the name of our party in Welsh, and I went to the Ogmore by-election). From Scotland, Andrew Reeves alerted us to the dangers facing the country’s forests.

Back in England, we reported further erosion of our civil liberties, with the news that bailiffs can now use violence and break into our homes, policemen can surveil your computer remotely without a warrant and even trainspotters are terrorists now.

Former mayoral candidate Brian Paddick had two bites at the cherry last week as he wrote about his appearance on “I’m a Celebrity…”, and we linked to a piece by him heralding improvement in equality in the police.  We also linked to a piece by Vince Cable.

News for students: the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee had a decisive vote on student finance and Alan Muhammed took a hard-headed look at the value of degrees.

As we hit an election year for the European Parliament, we learned Graham Watson would like to be President of the Parliament – and is actually openly campaigning for it, which is apparently unusual. And Willie Rennie MP shared his views on campaigning for European elections.

Finally this week, we appealed for your hard-earned cash to help keep the Voice online, and to help us attract still more readers.  A number of you have responded already, for which many thanks.