Category Archives: Friday Five

Subscribe

1. Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
2. Like us on Facebook
3. Subscribe to our feed
4. Sign-up for our daily email digest

Most Read

1. What should the Liberal Democrats say about compulsory voting?
2. ALDC by-election report 30th July
3. We need to send a message "We hear you" on illegal immigration
4. Why Andy Burnham would be foolish to turn his back on London
5. The Social Liberal Forum, a strategy for relevant liberalism

Search

Op-eds

• Lincolnshire – a flawed reform of local government and why it matters (Nigel Lindsay)
• Welcome to my day: 3 August 2026 – some thoughts on migration… (Mark Valladares)
• Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
• Observations of an Expat: Gaza Sceptic (Tom Arms)
• The Social Liberal Forum, a strategy for relevant liberalism (Roger Hayes and John Shreeve)

• The hidden history of Euston, a lost canal and Cumberland Market
• Liverpool Labour's lack of ambition over the Commonwealth and Europe
• Northwood Lane, Bewdley: The Elan Valley Aqueduct, The Singing Detective and Jonathan Meades
• First Clacton by-election opinion poll released
• Prince Philip sent 12th-century font to Charles' boarding school in the 1960s
• The funding fog surrounding Nigel Farage and Reform UK

Recent Comments

• Nigel Jones
  In North Staffordshire we have a proposed boundary between North and South which makes no community sense. It retains a dividing line in Newcastle-under-Lyme wh...
• Andy Daer
  I expect a more believable theory would suggest that modern Israeli Jews are trying to expunge the memory of apparently docile European Jews being annihilated b...
• Mick Taylor
  I think there is a real problem with NEETs. When I was young, and indeed when my children were, we were prepared to take any job that paid money whilst continui...
• David Le Grice
  I missed out that I'm referring to her statement in parliament about the postponement of the 2025 county elections....
• David Le Grice
  I'm not sure that the reappointment of Angela Rayner is necessarily cause for hope. It became clear during her statement and answers to MPs questions that she h...