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Stephen Tall

Welcome to our new volunteer editors!

By Stephen Tall | Tue 20th December 2011 - 7:23 am

Liberal Democrat Voice has always aimed to be ‘Our place to talk’, a site primarily for Lib Dem members to discuss and debate. We welcome readers’ contributions, whether financial (hem-hem) or intellectual.

Building and maintaining a site like this, with fresh news and opinion day-in-day-out, is a labour of love. We are therefore delighted to be able to welcome a clutch of new day editors to afforce the Voice Collective:

All have volunteered to do an occasional turn here at LibDemVoice.org (while continuing their own sites)… so don’t be surprised to see …

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Tue 6th December 2011 - 4:44 pm

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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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Sun 4th December 2011 - 6:23 pm

Why not join hundreds of other Lib Dem Voice readers in getting our latest headlines by email?

Some people like regularly visiting a site to see if there’s new stories of interest. Some people like subscribing to its news feed (RSS) and checking that way. But if you prefer email, you can instead sign up to get a daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice, complete with a note of how many comments each post has got and convenient links to click on if any take your fancy and you want to take a read.

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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Sat 5th November 2011 - 1:15 pm

Why not join hundreds of other Lib Dem Voice readers in getting our latest headlines by email?

Some people like regularly visiting a site to see if there’s new stories of interest. Some people like subscribing to its news feed (RSS) and checking that way. But if you prefer email, you can instead sign up to get a daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice, complete with a note of how many comments each post has got and convenient links to click on if any take your fancy and you want to take a read.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Fri 4th November 2011 - 1:56 pm

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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Mark Pack

Congratulations to our competition winners

By Mark Pack | Thu 20th October 2011 - 11:50 am

Many thanks to everyone who took part in our competition, in conjunction with MOO, to come up with what Nick Clegg should have on his business card.

Here are the winners…

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Mark Pack

MOO giveaway with Liberal Democrat Voice

By Mark Pack | Mon 10th October 2011 - 9:50 am

We’re pleased to be working alongside the team at MOO in offering a competition to win some great MOO products for our readers. The grand prize winner will get 100 of MOO’s business cards (a product which I’ve been a happy user of for many years) and a ShowCase business card holder. Two runners up will be receiving 100 business cards each.

Who is MOO?

In case you’ve not come across MOO before, they are business card printing experts, but also do stickers, greeting cards, MiniCards, labels and …

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Wed 5th October 2011 - 4:50 pm

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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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Tue 4th October 2011 - 11:55 am

Why not join hundreds of other Lib Dem Voice readers in getting our latest headlines by email?

Some people like regularly visiting a site to see if there’s new stories of interest. Some people like subscribing to its news feed (RSS) and checking that way. But if you prefer email, you can instead sign up to get a daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice, complete with a note of how many comments each post has got and convenient links to click on if any take your fancy and you want to take a read.

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Alex Foster

Read Lib Dem Voice on your Amazon Kindle

By Alex Foster | Thu 22nd September 2011 - 3:05 pm

Did you know you can subscribe to Lib Dem Voice using Amazon’s Kindle service? You can do so either on their Kindle device or using their apps for iPhone, Android, Mac or PC.

The link to Lib Dem Voice on Amazon is here. It will set you back a modest £1.99 a month.

Of course, if you think the content we produce here is worth £2 a month, and you don’t have a Kindle, you are more than welcome to cut out the middle-person and donate it to us directly by standing order.

You can also donate money to us indirectly by using any …

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Helen Duffett

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Helen Duffett | Thu 15th September 2011 - 12:53 pm

Why not get our latest headlines by email? Hundreds of Lib Dem Voice readers already do.

Some people like regularly visiting Lib Dem Voice to see the latest stories. Others like to look out for us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed and check that way. And some even read us on their Amazon Kindle.

But if you prefer email, you can sign up for our daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice. It has convenient links to click through to the full article, and a note of how many comments each post has got.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 4th September 2011 - 9:25 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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Mark Pack

How to get your picture to appear next to your comments on Lib Dem Voice

By Mark Pack | Fri 2nd September 2011 - 10:55 am

It’s been a while since we last reminded readers about this, so now seems a good time to publish the information again.

You may have noticed that next to some people’s comments is a small picture of themselves, such as:

If you want a picture to appear next to your comments you need to do two things.

  1. Visit Gravatar.com, create an account and

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Alex Foster

Read Lib Dem Voice on your Amazon Kindle

By Alex Foster | Sat 20th August 2011 - 3:04 pm

Did you know you can subscribe to Lib Dem Voice using Amazon’s Kindle service? You can do so either on their Kindle device or using their apps for iPhone, Android, Mac or PC.

The link to Lib Dem Voice on Amazon is here. It will set you back a modest £1.99 a month.

Of course, if you think the content we produce here is worth £2 a month, and you don’t have a Kindle, you are more than welcome to cut out the middle-person and donate it to us directly by standing order.

You can also donate money to us indirectly by using any …

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Helen Duffett

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Helen Duffett | Mon 15th August 2011 - 12:54 pm

Why not get our latest headlines by email? Hundreds of Lib Dem Voice readers already do.

Some people like regularly visiting Lib Dem Voice to see the latest stories. Others like to look out for us on Twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed and check that way. And some even read us on their Amazon Kindle.

But if you prefer email, you can sign up for our daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice. It has convenient links to click through to the full article, and a note of how many comments each post has got.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Mon 8th August 2011 - 9:23 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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Stephen Tall

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (July 2011)

By Stephen Tall | Sun 7th August 2011 - 1:00 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 34,668 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in July. This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 July 2010 – 30 June 2011) to 509,455.


The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Opinion: Nick Clegg didn’t suck up to Murdoch – that’s why his minions tried to destroy him (28) by James Percival
  2. Opinion: Verdict from the first Mayoral Hustings – it’s a two horse race (40) by Simon McGrath
  3. What does the Inverclyde result mean for the Scottish Liberal Democrats?

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Alex Foster

Read Lib Dem Voice on your Amazon Kindle

By Alex Foster | Sun 17th July 2011 - 3:02 pm

Did you know you can subscribe to Lib Dem Voice using Amazon’s Kindle service? You can do so either on their Kindle device or using their apps for iPhone, Android, Mac or PC.

The link to Lib Dem Voice on Amazon is here. It will set you back a modest £1.99 a month.

Of course, if you think the content we produce here is worth £2 a month, and you don’t have a Kindle, you are more than welcome to cut out the middle-person and donate it to us directly by standing order.

You can also donate money to us indirectly by using any …

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Helen Duffett

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Helen Duffett | Fri 15th July 2011 - 12:53 pm

Why not get our latest headlines by email? Hundreds of Lib Dem Voice readers already do.

Some people like regularly visiting Lib Dem Voice to see the latest stories. Others like to look out for us on Twitter. And some like to subscribe to our RSS feed and check that way.

But if you prefer email, you can sign up for our daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice. It has convenient links to click through to the full article, and a note of how many comments each post has got.

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Stephen Tall

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (June 2011)

By Stephen Tall | Sat 2nd July 2011 - 12:05 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 39,604 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in June. This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 July 2010 – 30 June 2011) to 522,590.


The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Andrew Reeves passes away (38) by Mark Pack
  2. Response: Chair of Federal Conference Committee on increased security measures (153) by Andrew Wiseman
  3. Why Simon Kelner is wrong to defend Johann Hari (27) by Stephen Tall
  4. Opinion: Why you should be taking Lembit Opik seriously (61) by Richard Clare

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Mark Pack

See you in September

By Mark Pack | Fri 1st July 2011 - 8:43 am

I’m mostly taking a break from Liberal Democrat Voice over July and August to write a book with Ed Maxfield on political campaigning.

The rest of the team will be keeping the site running, but if you’ve ever half-thought of writing a post for us, now’s a particularly good time to put fingers to keyboard.

I may now and again break my Lib Dem Voice fast 🙂 But I’ll still be tweeting and doing my monthly email newsletter about the Liberal Democrats.

Otherwise, see you in September.

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Helen Duffett

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (May 2011)

By Helen Duffett | Sun 12th June 2011 - 4:53 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 56,674 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in May.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 June 2010 – 31 May 2011) to 531,005, 5.8% more than the equivalent figure for 2009-10 of 501,773.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Opinion: However unfair it is, Chris Huhne should step down (105 comments) by Simon McGrath
  2. Chris Huhne’s election expenses: once again, nothing to see here, move along (60 comments) by Mark Pack
  3. Black Friday for Lib Dems: it’s worse than we thought

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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Mon 6th June 2011 - 12:54 pm

Why not join hundreds of other Lib Dem Voice readers in getting our latest headlines by email?

Some people like regularly visiting a site to see if there’s new stories of interest. Some people like subscribing to its news feed (RSS) and checking that way. But if you prefer email, you can instead sign up to get a daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice, complete with a note of how many comments each post has got and convenient links to click on if any take your fancy and you want to take a read.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 5th June 2011 - 10:53 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 Voice

Site news: comments in reversal

By The Voice | Tue 31st May 2011 - 7:26 pm

No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, nor is your computer upside down. We’re experimenting with reversing the order of comments so the most recent appears top of the list under each post rather than the oldest. That’s a popular choice on other sites though by no means universal. Do let us know what you think of our experiment.

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The Voice

We’re back…

By The Voice | Sat 21st May 2011 - 11:06 am

Apologies for the problems in accessing our site over the last few days. We are now up and running on a new server, with a new hosting company. Everything should be working fine but if you spot any problems do let us know. Thanks for your patience.

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Stephen Tall

What you think of Lib Dem Voice’s comments policy… your chance to comment!

By Stephen Tall | Sat 14th May 2011 - 8:45 am

In our most recent survey of Lib Dem members signed-up our discussion forum, we asked what folk think of the comments posted by our readers on the public blog.

We’ve tried different approaches to comment moderation on Lib Dem Voice. Initially, we were uber-liberal almost laissez-faire, only moderating comments which we judged were legally risky. Then, at the start of 2010, we decided in response to feedback from readers (including from those who ‘lurk’ but rarely comment) to moderate more actively, declining to accept comments which were at all abusive, or were completely off-topic. Our aim was, and …

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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Fri 6th May 2011 - 12:25 pm

Why not join hundreds of other Lib Dem Voice readers in getting our latest headlines by email?

Some people like regularly visiting a site to see if there’s new stories of interest. Some people like subscribing to its news feed (RSS) and checking that way. But if you prefer email, you can instead sign up to get a daily early morning email with a summary of the previous day’s posts from Lib Dem Voice, complete with a note of how many comments each post has got and convenient links to click on if any take your fancy and you want to take a read.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Thu 5th May 2011 - 8:24 pm

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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Mark Pack

We’re talking digital policy today

By Mark Pack | Thu 21st April 2011 - 9:23 am

We’re trying something a little different today – three much longer posts than usual, all on the same policy theme. As the party currently has an Information Technology and Intellectual Policy Working Group at work, we’ve picked the same topic for today’s theme.

Today’s trio of posts are going to be:

For more about the Policy Working Group’s work, see the original consultation paper and …

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