Category Archives: A weekly catchup

A short guide to the best of Lib Dem Voice

In the final full week of campaigning for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, we featured heaps of stories about the goings-on. There’s trouble for the Tories, consideration about whether it’s better for Labour to win or lose – given the calibre of their leaflets, they deserve to lose.

Away from the campaign coalface, Tim Leunig reviewed a Clegg speech on Lib Dem plans for the city; Laurence Boyce recounted an interview with the man himself – and large numbers weighed in in the comments.

Jake Holland brought us …

Our belated guide to the highlights here at LDV. Read this if you don’t read anything else this summer:

Our guest contributors included

• Alexis Rowell, exhorting us to eat less meat
• Neale Upstone’s review of our performance
• Martin Turner’s consideration of Apathy in the UK

You, our readers, weighed in with dozens of comments about

• Linda Jack’s article about child poverty
• Our new poll about the next general election
• Of course – our Question Time open thread

There was also lots and lots of by-election news from Crewe and Nantwich (polling this week! Go there if you possibly can!) and slightly …

Our weekly guide to the good on Lib Dem Voice

This week, two important appeals for your input:

• Our competition for the last LDV mug
• Tell Alix your election results as they happen

The highest number of comments this week were recorded on

• Should a dangerously incompetent anaesthetist become a councillor?
• Our weekly date with Question Time – London Mayor special (also available in Rainbow Edition on Something for the Weekend)
• Ming for Speaker?

Guest contributors brought us

• Shifting the unequal state
• (… yes… just the one guest contributor last week. Why don’t you write us an article?)

Saga of the week

A hurried, late weekly catchup this week:

Lots of comments on:

• Our poll on whether deaf families should be able to select deaf babies
• Allegations of Clegg’s student Tory past
• The Green/Brown debate

We covered the ongoing London Mayoral debate with

• More debate on second preferences
• Further news of innovation from Lib Dem Brian Paddick
• and news that our online strategy is working

Guest writers this week included

• Mike Smithson’s scorn for the poor Beeb coverage of local elections
• Elizabeth Truss and Lucy Parsons discussing the unequal state
• Darrell Goodliffe with an interesting contrast between Battlestar Galactica and the Liberal Democrats.

Our regulars brought …

Welcome to our once-a-week post pointing you to the best of posts from last week.

The London Mayoral election keep us busy in the comments this week. We changed our poll to ask who, if anyone, LDV readers would back for their second preference. Hot debate ensued there, as well as in the follow-up to a post from Peter David who let us know who he’d be backing and why it grated. We reported on the Newsnight mayoral hustings – and told you about the three Youtubers who put up Boris’s evasion. We also brought you Paddick’s …

Weekly Catchup is your guide to what was hot on Lib Dem Voice last week.

Twitter news first: we heard that Brian Paddick was holding an interview by Twitter, and that Lynne Featherstone could have sent the first tweet from the chamber of the House of Commons. An appeal for poster sites also seemed to work well.

We celebrated April Fools Day twice with a Boyce special and news of info found on photocopier.

Opposition news: the Tories selection process for their Euro candidates stank and they’re not doing as well online as they like to …

Weekly Catchup brings you the best of Lib Dem Voice in one easy-to-digest capsule.

Three pages-worth of posts to choose from this week in the new, shiny, upgraded management interface which you ordinary users don’t get to see.

Guest writers this week were considering Nick Clegg’s first 100 days. We heard from Mary Reid, Paul Walter, Linda Jack and Martin Land. Darrell Goodliffe wrote about pulpit politics and boycotting China, and came close to overtaking Laurence Boyce as one of our more prolific contributors. And Jonathan Calder gave us the third in his regular series …

Welcome to Bank Holiday Catchup – reading Lib Dem Voice so you don’t have to.

A quieter week than many, but we still had time for all the usual, and much much more.  Guest contributors included fast-becoming-regular Darrell Goodliffe marking the anniversary of the war in Iraq; Linda Jack talked to us about taxes; Martin Land looked at the polls and Bernard Aris gave a welcome perspective on the Gurkha medal campaign.

All your regular contributors were represented too: Stephen brought us Obama; Richard brought us Paddick; Alix suggested a Liberal rapid response unit to …

Our weekly round-up of all that’s good on Lib Dem Voice.

We kicked off our week here with a thoughtful piece from Joe Otten about faith schools – and the F word on Voice is a red rag to several of our regular bulls. The piece has had a discussion continuing with over 120 comments to date.

Slightly fewer comments ensued on equally thoughtful pieces about the budget, rebellions, and what turned out to be a restatement of existing policy when Clegg considered taking an axe to nearly a quarter of all MPs. Look out for the …

Catchup brings you best of Lib Dem Voice in a helpful package first thing on a Monday morning.  You can read it by clicking on the link at the top of the page or get a feed of it here.

It’s been a tougher week to choose than normal, with more posts than either of the previous two weeks.  MP Andrew Stunnell talked about his campaign to provide more housing ahead of his conference motion. Mike Smithson no longer believe the Lib Dems are worth a punt – but only because he loves us so much. Elizabeth …

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 …

A regular criticism of Lib Dem Voice – and the blog format in general – is that on fast moving days, readers can miss the good stuff. For that reason, we’re introducing a short, snappy Monday-morning round-up of last week’s top posts.

We kicked last week off with an extract from the Dictionary of Liberal Thought about Community Politics.

Two of our MPs penned articles for site: Lynne Featherstone on the dilemma of the placebo and Steve Webb promoting the party’s campaigning effort on climate change. We heard from Duncan Brack, chair of the Federal Conference Committee …