We are planning on taking a Festive Break from now until 2 January, but don’t be surprised if I have some opinions I feel moved to inflict on you during this period. We won’t be publishing submissions before then but if you feel inspired to write something for us, please feel free to send it in.

Also, if you would like to send some Christmas cheer our way, you can donate here.

It’s been quite the year for the Liberal Democrats. We’ve come through an election where nothing went wrong, our bubble didn’t burst and we have more MPs than we’ve had for a century. Our leader is now well known and well liked and we’ve shown that we can offer strong opposition to Labour as well as the Conservatives. Here’s the party’s look back on a brilliant and happy year.

As always, I am incredibly grateful for the hard work of all the Lib Dem Voice team. Ryan, our technical guru regularly performs miracles to keep us on the internet. Alex keeps us on track financially and  Mark, Paul, Mary and Charley are a never ending source of wisdom, sanity and fun.  They put so much effort into supporting authors and producing their own material to keep this site going.

We managed to miss our own 18th birthday this August, so perhaps you will pause for a moment and raise a glass of whatever Christmas cheer you have to celebrate our lovely team.

Wherever you are, the whole team hopes you have warmth, health and happiness over Christmas and into 2025.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social