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Paul Walter

Guest editor today – Paul Walter

By Paul Walter | Sat 16th April 2011 - 9:00 am

Astonishingly the editorial team have seen fit to vacate the LDV control tower and let me guest edit the website for another day. Power! Last time, I contacted mainly old LibDem friends who I’ve worked alongside over the years, and got them to write some fascinating posts. Having now exhausted my slim LibDem “Roladex” of contacts, I took a different approach this time. I randomly approached a number of keen LibDem bloggers and asked them to write a post on any subject. To my pleasant surprise, they responded very …

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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Fri 8th April 2011 - 12:28 pm

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 | Wed 6th April 2011 - 3:27 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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Stephen Tall

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

By Stephen Tall | Sat 2nd April 2011 - 4:35 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 52,224 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in March.

It’s three months since last the Voice indulged in our statporn, so here’s 2011 figures so far: January (44,998) and February (40,206). This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011) to 766,283, almost double the equivalent figure for 2009-10 of 395,014.

Incidentally, if you’re wondering why we publish our readership figures — is it show-off vanity, or pedantic statophilia? — I came up with a few reasons at …

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Alex Foster

Read LDV on your Amazon Kindle

By Alex Foster | Mon 28th March 2011 - 6:29 pm

Just a quick reminder that you can subscribe to Lib Dem Voice using Amazon’s Kindle service – 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.

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Mark Pack

Welcome back to Linda Jack as guest editor for the day

By Mark Pack | Mon 7th March 2011 - 2:55 pm

Tomorrow Linda Jack is returning as guest editor for the day on Liberal Democrat Voice. Linda was our second guest editor, back in September and is a blogger herself at Lindylooz Muze.

Have fun with the site Linda…

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Mark Pack

Get The Voice’s latest headlines in your inbox every day

By Mark Pack | Mon 7th March 2011 - 8:55 am

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 6th March 2011 - 11:55 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 Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Sun 13th February 2011 - 8:55 am

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

Welcome to Nick Thornsby

By Mark Pack | Wed 9th February 2011 - 8:55 am

A very warm welcome to Nick Thornsby, who has started helping out on The Voice this week with our LibLink postings. These highlight articles which have appeared elsewhere from Liberal Democrats, particularly opinion pieces in the mainstream newspapers.

Thank you Nick, and if any readers spot an article that should be LibLinked which we haven’t yet picked up on, do get in touch.

Nick’s own blog is at nickthornsby.wordpress.com, which is also well worth a read as it has continued going strong since the Phil Woolas court case, when it was an essential source of information.

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Tue 8th February 2011 - 8:55 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 three 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

The Voice’s Alex Foster to feature on tonight’s Channel 4 Come Dine With Me

By Stephen Tall | Tue 1st February 2011 - 6:33 pm

Long-time contributing editor to Lib Dem Voice, Alex Foster, is cooking up a storm on this week’s Come Dine With Me, the hit Channel 4 gourmet gameshow. And tonight, Tuesday, at 5pm is when viewers will be able to view his cooking episode, which is trailed thusly:

In Nottingham, local councillor Alex Foster hopes to impress with a fancy French menu and a spot of bell ringing. Sadly, Brian likens Alex’s starter to cat food, Janice tells him to tidy up his house, and Barry compares the cornichons to intimate body parts.

Which must surely count as must-watch telly, yes?

You can …

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Stephen Tall

Helen Duffett appointed Internal Communications Manager for Lib Dems

By Stephen Tall | Tue 18th January 2011 - 9:58 pm

Helen Duffett — Lib Dem blogger, tweeter, and much-loved member of Lib Dem Voice’s editorial collective — started today as the party’s new Internal Communications Manager. All of us at the Voice wish her the very best in this vital role.

We are delighted that Helen has agreed to continue to fulfil the role of contributing editor, and look forward to her remaining a full member of the team here at LDV Towers.

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Stephen Tall

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (December ’10)

By Stephen Tall | Sun 2nd January 2011 - 5:58 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 51,153 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in December.

That’s a notch down on our November figure of c.59,000, but almost double the equivalent figure for December ’09 of c.27,000.

Incidentally, if you’re wondering why we publish our readership figures — is it show-off vanity, or pedantic statophilia — I came up with a few reasons at the start of last year. The arguments still stack up, I think.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Opinion: Richard Huzzey – “I resign” (225) by Richard Huzzey
  2. Probably the

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 2nd January 2011 - 1:25 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 three 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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Helen Duffett

Lib Dem Voice: 2010 in stats

By Helen Duffett | Sat 1st January 2011 - 7:25 pm

Happy New Year and thankyou to all our readers!

Here are a few statistics which sum up the past year on LDV:

384 authors have written a total of 3239 posts. (For more on how to write for us, click here.)

Readers have visited our site 1,473,760 times, making 3,140,977 pageviews.

Our busiest day was Friday 7th May, the day after the General Election. This is typical for political websites the day after an election, and a reminder to defer that lie-in until after you’ve updated your site with results and commentary. The surge in readers the day after Polling Day is often greater than the steady trickle who’ve been visiting a site during an election campaign.

The 5 most-read stories on LDV in 2010:

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Mark Pack

Our new year signing: Mark Valladares

By Mark Pack | Mon 27th December 2010 - 8:55 am

In the new year Mark Valladares, of Liberal Bureaucracy and a sometime contributor to this site, will be starting up a regular fortnightly guest piece for The Voice concentrating on letting members know what party bodies are getting up to in their name and how they can influence their decisions.

If there’s any particular topic you’d like Mark to cover, just pop up a comment below…

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Mark Pack

How to get Lib Dem Voice by email

By Mark Pack | Sun 19th December 2010 - 8:55 am

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 | Mon 6th December 2010 - 3:58 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 three 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 (November ’10)

By Stephen Tall | Thu 2nd December 2010 - 7:45 am

… We’d say a big thank you to the 59,273 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in November.

That’s a notch down on our October figure of c.63,000, but double the equivalent figure for November ’09 of c.29,000.
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This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 Dec 2009 – 30 Nov 2010) to 733,459, getting on for double the equivalent figure for 2008-09 of 333,175.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Jo Swinson MP writes on tuition fees (139) by Jo Swinson MP
  2. Opinion: Clegg has not betrayed us! (148) by

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The Voice

How you can help Liberal Democrat Voice

By The Voice | Sun 7th November 2010 - 6:53 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 three 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 (October ’10)

By Stephen Tall | Thu 4th November 2010 - 7:30 am

… We’d say a big thank you to the 62,745 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in October.

That’s a notch up on our September figure of c.61,000, and double the equivalent figure for October ’09 of c.30,000.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 Nov 2009 – 31 Oct 2010) to 651,902, getting on for double the equivalent figure for 2008-09 of 353,311.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

  1. Nick Clegg writes to Lib Dem MPs over tuition fees (180) by The Voice
  2. Vince Cable’s statement on tuition fees

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Mark Pack

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

By Mark Pack | Sun 31st October 2010 - 5:55 pm

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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Paul Walter

Thanks for reading

By Paul Walter | Sat 30th October 2010 - 10:15 pm

Thanks very much to the Liberal Democrat Voice team for giving me the privilege of guest editing the site today. It was a huge pleasure to be able to contact LibDem friends I greatly admire, and then receive back articles which were of high quality and fascinating in equal measure. So many thanks to David B, Duncan, Katy, Mary, Sue, David R, Colin and Gerald for writing such wonderful articles so promptly and to Mark for posting them up and generally advising.

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Mark Pack

Paul Walter to guest edit Liberal Democrat Voice tomorrow

By Mark Pack | Fri 29th October 2010 - 2:50 pm

Tomorrow we’ve got our fourth guest editor running the site for a day, Newbury blogger Paul Walter. He follows Caron Lindsay, Mark Valladares and Linda Jack.

Paul’s got a great set of guest posts lined up already, so do pop back tomorrow to take a read.

This is the last of our little run of experiments with guest editors so if you’ve got any views on how it has gone and whether we should do something similar in future, please comment below.

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Iain Roberts

Administrative note: check before submitting a tuition fees article

By Iain Roberts | Fri 15th October 2010 - 8:09 am

We’ve received more articles for publication on the topic of tuition fees than on any other single topic for a long time. Those not already published will be coming over the next few days.

Due to this high volume, we can’t commit to publish all new articles submitted on the subject.

If you’re thinking of writing an article for Lib Dem Voice on tuition fees, please drop us an email first ([email protected]) with an brief outline to avoid disappointment.

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Caron Lindsay

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 14th October 2010 - 10:38 pm

So, 13 hours after it began, my day as guest editor comes to an end. I’ve loved it but I am so, so tired. I think it’s going to take me a week to recover.

I’ve always admired the Voice Team but am now even more convinced than ever that whenever you see Alex Foster, Sara Bedford, Helen Duffett, Mark Pack, Stephen Tall and Iain Roberts, not forgetting Ryan Cullen for his technical wizardry, you should offer them food, alcohol, cuddles or all three. They do this every day. Blimey!

I want to say a huge thank you to lots of lovely …

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Caron Lindsay

Presidential prospects, passionate debate and poll confidence – a day of inspiration, optimism and hope

By Caron Lindsay | Thu 14th October 2010 - 8:55 am

Mark Valladares, who was the first guest editor to be let loose on this hallowed site, was sober at the time he agreed to it. I can’t say the same, but if Dr Pack will insist on asking for volunteers very late on a Friday night, then he probably deserves everything he gets.

When Mark offered me a day this week, its proximity to our first Scottish Conference was too opportune to turn down.

Normally Autumn Scottish Conference is an earnest but modest gathering. This year’s was keenly anticipated, though. How would we adjust to being part of a Westminster Government with …

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Mark Pack

Caron Lindsay to guest edit Liberal Democrat Voice tomorrow

By Mark Pack | Wed 13th October 2010 - 6:25 pm

Tomorrow we’ve got a new guest editor running the site for a day, Scottish Lib Dem blogger Caron Lindsay. She’s the third in our series of guest editors, following Mark Valladares and Linda Jack.

I’m really looking forward to reading the posts Caron’s already talked about having ready to publish. Do come back tomorrow and see how Caron adds a different perspective and touch from the usual on here.

We have a couple more guest slots lined up later this year already but if anyone else would like to be a guest editor for the day, please drop an …

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Stephen Tall

Congratulations to Alex Foster from all at Lib Dem Voice

By Stephen Tall | Sat 9th October 2010 - 1:30 pm

All of us at Lib Dem Voice join in wishing our colleague, Alex Foster, the very best on his wedding day. May it be everything you both want, and more, Alex.

Alex is one of the founding members of the Voice collective: you can read his first post on his love-hate relationship with Lib Dem conferences (from September 2006) here; and all his other posts for the Voice here.

And if you want to be uplifted while shedding a tear, can I recommend the post he published this week over …

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