Welcome to Christmas catchup in the week party leader Nick Clegg celebrated his first anniversary in post. We covered that here on the voice with articles from our editor at large Stephen Tall, Cambridgeshire campaigner and activist Martin Land, and Mark Littlewood from Progressive Vision. Clegg penned an article for us himself, and also put up a Youtube video. And Alison Holmes also wrote a considered review of the year.

As well as slightly introspective views of his leadership year, Nick Clegg also gave a major speech to Demos, covering the big subject of liberalism. Stephen wrote a summary of that here; and Alix covered the coverage of the speech here. Both of those pieces generated a fair bit of debate in the comments.

Nick also wrote a piece for the New Statesman this week.

It was also the week our book continued to be on sale. You might like to buy a copy – particularly now that there’s no way you’ll get it for Christmas, so you can opt for the cheapest postage option.

John Ward, who debuted on the Voice just a fortnight ago, provided us with our most read article this week, comparing Brown to Nixon.

Policing of the Kings Norton Climate Camp protest made the news this week, when Lib Dem freedom of information requests revealed that the extent of police injuries had been ridiculously overexaggerated. We covered that here and here. Norman Baker was also namechecked on the issue of the third runway at Heathrow.

Regular postings: Gareth Aubrey brought us the first of news of goings on west of the Wye in Y Barcud Oren; James Graham reviewed the week’s Lib Diggery – already in its fourth week; Alix hosted our weekly date with the Prime Minister, with the deputies on their feet this week. And I finally lost my Golden Dozen cherry.

Our new poll breaks the rules of keeping politics and religion off the agenda over the festive break.  Nominations have now closed in our LDV 2008 awards. Voting will begin shortly.

Finally, our technical guru Ryan has been working hard in slightly behind the scenes ways to make the Voice run better and smoother – and one of the more visible changes he’s made now means the site loads a million times noticeably quicker for mobile users.