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What links Colin Firth, Ken Macdonald, Brian Eno, Gurkha veteran Madan Kumar Gurung, Pam Giddy, Floella Benjamin and Duwayne Brooks?

By Stephen Tall | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 7:45 pm

Well, all six of them have contributed to the soon-to-be-published opus, Why Vote Liberal Democrat?, published this Thursday. To pre-order your copy from Amazon, please click here.

Here’s the party press release blurb:

Actor Colin Firth, former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald QC and musician Brian Eno have all contributed to a book entitled ‘Why Vote Liberal Democrat’. The book, which goes on sale on Thursday, covers topics as varied as fair taxes, gay rights, looking after our armed forces, political reform and the fight against climate change.

Other contributors include Gurkha veteran Madan Kumar Gurung, political reform

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Posted in Books | Tagged brian eno, colin firth, duwayne brooks, floella benjamin, gurkhas, ken macdonald, madan kumar gurung and pam giddy | 5 Comments

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LibLink: Giles Wilkes – The hidden cost of quantitative easing

By NewsHound | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 6:45 pm

Over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website, Lib Dem blogger Giles Wilkes – liberal think-tank Centre Forum‘s award-winning chief economist – argues that though quantitative easing was needed to prevent financial collapse, it has made the rich richer, and taxpayers will foot the bill for growing inequality. Here’s an excerpt (but NewsHound does recommend you read the full article to enjoy Giles’s imagined budget speech of a year ago):

QE was the right thing to do: it may become the most significant step that Labour took to fight recession. … quite possibly averted an outcome far worse: an

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Posted in LibLink | Tagged centreforum, giles wilkes, quantitative easing and recession | 1 Comment

Does it matter how young or old an MP is?

By Mark Pack | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 5:15 pm

That’s the question posed by a request HarperCollins are making of Parliamentary candidates. In the name of putting together a book aimed at encouraging first time voters to vote , the book publishers are asking for year of birth.

Now, for most candidates that’s not exactly a secret and is already in plenty of places. But it does prompt the question: does it matter when an MP or candidate was born?

Is age a useful indicator of experience or how good an MP would be at representing people of different ages?

Over to you…

Posted in News | 10 Comments

Lord Clement-Jones on the Digital Economy Bill: web blocking amendment

By Tim Clement-Jones | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 4:20 pm

The Digital Economy Bill, currently at the report stage in the Lords has caused concern, as Lib Dem peers Lord Razzall and Lord Clement-Jones are seeking an amendment to allow site blocking for copyright infringement.

Earlier this week, Open Rights Group posted an appeal for people to write to the peers, asking them to drop the amendment.

Here, Lord Tim Clement-Jones sets out his response:

The Digital Economy Bill, as currently drafted, only deals with a certain type of copyright infringement, namely peer-to-peer file sharing. Around 35% of all online copyright infringement takes place on non peer-to-peer sites and services. Particular threats concern “cyberlockers” which are hosted abroad.

There are websites which consistently infringe copyright, many of them based outside the UK in countries such as Russia and beyond the jurisdiction of the UK courts. Many of these websites refuse to stop supplying access to illegal content.

It is a result of this situation that the Liberal Democrats have tabled an amendment in the Lords which has the support of the Conservatives that enables the High Court to grant an injunction requiring Internet Service Providers to block access to sites.

Posted in Op-eds | Tagged digital economy bill and tim clement-jones | 249 Comments

Daily View 2×2: 3 March 2010

By Iain Roberts | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 3:53 pm

Better late than never, today’s Daily View finally arrives. The miners’ strike ended on this day in 1985, and Switzerland voted to join the United Nations in this day in 2002.

2 Big Stories

Life found on Mars

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House of Commons reform: contact your MP about tomorrow’s vote

By Helen Duffett | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 2:44 pm

MPs will vote tomorrow on an amendment to the Government’s resolutions on the reform of Parliament, put forward by Evan Harris MP on behalf of the Wright Committee. (Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons.)

The Wright Committee was set up as a response to the expenses scandal in 2009 to make recommendations on how Parliament could be reformed to carry out its functions better.

The reforms being put to a vote tomorrow will include the amendment approving the establishment of a House Business Committee. This committee would decide the scheduling of all business before the House, including scrutiny of legislation, and to put an agenda before the House for decision. This would be vast improvement on the current state of affairs:

Posted in News | Tagged evan harris, george young, henry porter, mysociety, tony wright and wright committee | 3 Comments

The Independent View: politics, music and a new blog

By Neil Roberts | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 1:10 pm

Heaven is Whenever has been set up by myself (with help from Bella Gerens and Left Outside) as an escape for political bloggers where we want everyone – regardless of party or ideology – to write about the music they enjoy; favourite albums, overlooked artists, memorable gigs or cherished experiences.

We are in the midst of an election campaign which would try the patience of a saint. Though blogging is necessarily combative one of its joys is the space it creates to interact with opposing points of view.

This is a place not to write as esteemed …

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How do the Lib Dem MPs compare on Twitter? March update

By Mark Pack | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 11:50 am

Changes in position and score are since February’s figures, and the same caveats apply as before to these numbers from TweetLevel (i.e. Twitter isn’t the only thing in the world, and this isn’t the only way of measuring people’s influence on / use of Twitter):

1. (nc) nick_clegg 55 (-4)
2. (nc) joswinson 52 (nc)
3. (+3) SandraGidley 46 (+6)
4=. (-1) lfeatherstone 44 (-2)
4=. (+1) philwillismp 44 (+2)
6. (-2) vincecable 42 (-2)
7. (+1) normanlamb 40 (+4)
8. (+1) willie_rennie 37 (+4)
9. (-2) acarmichaelmp 33 (-4)
10=. (nc). GregMulholland1 32 (nc)
10=. (+6) jgoldsworthy 32 (+6)
10=. (+1) SusanKramer 32 (+2)
13=. (+3) mooremichaelk 30 (+4)
13=. (-1) timfarron …

Posted in Online politics | Tagged twitter | 7 Comments

TV leaders debates: what do the rules signify?

By Mark Pack | Wed 3rd March 2010 - 9:20 am

Despite some alarms along the way, the rules are now set for the first-ever head-to-head general election debates in the UK a mere 46 years after the first suggestion.

(And no, yawn yawn, it isn’t only in the US that such debates take place: the US wasn’t first and the US isn’t a particularly good place to look for lessons, what with not being a Parliamentary democracy unlike many of the other countries which also have TV debates.)

Now the rules are set, what do they tell us about how the debates may play out?

Posted in News | Tagged david cameron, featured, gordon brown, leaders tv debate and nick clegg | 4 Comments

Did all the complaints to the PCC over Jan Moir achieve something?

By Mark Pack | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 10:33 pm

It’s a fair question to ask: lots of complaints made over Jan Moir’s piece on the death of Stephen Gately, none upheld.

However, as Enemies of Reason points out, that isn’t the only measure of success:

But I would like to hope – hope against hope – that the storm the Daily Mail found itself in after Moir’s ill-judged and venomous article made them, in some small way, feel they were a little more vulnerable to the outside world, and their own readers, than they were before. It’s easy to dismiss the rantings of a few pointless troublemakers like me, for example,

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Posted in News | Tagged daily mail, enemies of reason, jan moir, kristian digby and stephen gately | 19 Comments

Rules agreed for leaders’ TV debates – and Clegg to open the batting

By Helen Duffett | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 5:39 pm

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is to speak first in the first debate, hosted by ITV, while Gordon Brown and David Cameron will do so in the subsequent debates, on Sky and the BBC.

From the BBC:

Three major broadcasters – the BBC, ITV and Sky – have agreed on the rules for hosting party leaders’ debates in the run-up to the general election.

The three 90-minute sessions will begin by focusing on domestic policies, international affairs and the economy.

Posted in General Election and News | Tagged bbc, david cameron, gordon brown, itv, leaders tv debate, nick clegg and sky news | 6 Comments

Opinion: Tory school plans will give parents nightmares

By Chris White | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 2:37 pm

Monday’s Today Programme on Radio 4 majored on local government.

It was the usual shambles. We were told that local authorities were expecting to make cuts in services – hardly news. One reporter told us that libraries were not used by many people – in fact had she spent ten minutes on research she would have discovered that libraries are visited by half the adult population each year. This makes libraries far more popular than any if not all of the sporting events on which the BBC lavishes time and our money each year.

Another reporter told us that local authorities …

Posted in Local government and Op-eds | Tagged academies, education, libraries, Local government, michael gove and schools | 3 Comments

Haggis, Neeps and Liberalism #14: As a liberal republican sees it

By Kevin McPhillips | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 1:20 pm

Last week, Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, launched the Referendum (Scotland) Bill consultation. The SNP has few aspirations, beyond independence for its own sake. I can’t help but think of them as someone courting a reluctant bride. They keep asking, and keep cajoling, hoping that eventually the electorate will say yes, and let them take them up the aisle.

On Friday, Nicola Sturgeon, who faced parliament about her own troubles earlier in the week, said “this isn’t about what the SNP wants, it’s about what the people of Scotland want”. Well, she’s wrong. This consultation actually is …

Posted in Op-eds and Scotland | Tagged alex salmond, nicola sturgeon and snp | 5 Comments

Welcome to the new bloggers…

By Mark Pack | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 12:50 pm

Five blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

Aberystwyth University Liberal Democrats – http://aulibdems.wordpress.com – old logo, new site
Harry Armistead – http://harryarmistead.lancasterlibdems.org – nicely integrated with various social networks, including ACT
Ian Lindley – http://www.ianlindley.co.uk – interesting use of Tumblr, and comes with a campaign song
Lee Chalmers – http://www.leechalmers.com – though there seems to be a site missing from the blog roll, ahem 🙂
Lorna Spenceley – http://lornaspenceley.blogspot.com – majoring on her local campaigning in Cambridgeshire

Good luck to all the new bloggers, and why not take a moment to pop over to their blogs, take a read and post a comment?

Whether you are a new or experience blogger yourself, you may also find our compilation of “how to blog” posts useful:

Posted in Online politics | Tagged blogging | 2 Comments

Daily View 2×2: 2 March 2010

By Sara Bedford | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 10:55 am

Welcome to another Tuesday here at LDV Towers. Today we say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Lembit Öpik, who is 45 today. Estonia’s, Northern Ireland’s, Montgomeryshire’s finest shares his special day with comedian Dave Gorman, who is 39 today and cricketer Andrew Strauss, who is 33.

On this day 40 years ago, Ian Smith declared Rhodesia a republic, cutting the country’s last link with the British Crown five years after he unilaterally declared independence. Ten years ago today, 2000 former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet headed home to Chile, after being told the UK would not extradite him on …

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Book review: learning from the Obama and McCain online advertising campaigns

By Mark Pack | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 10:20 am

Campaign ’08: A Turning Point For Digital Media is a slim volume by Kate Kaye, senior news editor at ClickZ, taking an in-depth look at the online advertising used in the 2008 Presidential contest for the primaries and then the general election.

Though the book touches on other aspects of internet campaigning, what makes it stand out from the crowd of competing volumes is its focus on advertising.

It starts with a reminder that there is only one John McCain: the McCain mocked in 2008 for not getting online campaigning is the same McCain who was feted in 2000 for getting online campaigning. Indeed, in many ways it was his 2000 campaign that put online political fundraising on the agenda in the US, just as Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign put online organising on the agenda.

Posted in Books, LDVUSA and Online politics | Tagged barack obama, google, john mccain, kate kaye and YouTube | 1 Comment

Cornwall Conservatives veto Clegg visit

By Sara Bedford | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 8:30 am

Local councillors and campaigners are flabbergasted after Conservative-run Cornwall Council decided to prevent Nick Clegg from visiting a key regeneration site in the county.

The Lib Dem leader had been due to visit the Heartlands Project, part of a rundown old mining area which is due to be transformed using a multi-million pound Lottery grant.

Posted in News | Tagged cornwall, kim willoughby, malcolm moyle and nick clegg | 3 Comments

Lib Dems select Nick Griffin’s biographer to fight BNP in Barking

By Helen Duffett | Tue 2nd March 2010 - 7:50 am

Dominic Carman, son of the late George Carman QC, and biographer of BNP leader Nick Griffin, is to stand as the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Barking, East London.

From The Times:

He intends to use information from his research into the biography to attack his opponent. It was never released because publishers were unwilling to associate their brand with the BNP leader.

“I will put it to good use in exposing Griffin beyond what’s already been in the public domain,” he said. “It’s very important to fight a strong campaign and it will be critical to challenge Nick Griffin every

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Posted in Selection news | Tagged barking, bnp, dominic carman and nick griffin | 6 Comments

Nick puts schools at heart of vision for fairness

By The Voice | Mon 1st March 2010 - 10:45 pm

Nick Clegg today set out the importance of early years education in tackling inequality in a speech to the Salvation Army. Here’s how Politics.co.uk reports it:

Nick Clegg has placed inequality firmly at the centre of the Liberal Democrat’s education policy and attacked the Tories for not costing their plans for schools. In a keynote speech on education, Mr Clegg said his party’s ‘pupil premium’ policy would see disadvantaged children receive as much funding for education as private school pupil. Headmasters would then be able to spend that money on reducing class sizes.

Nick’s speech has earned the praise of Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers union:

The approach the Liberal Democrats have taken to education reform in a tough financial climate is genuinely refreshing. It would appear that the Liberal Democrats have understood that the last thing you do in times of financial hardship is cut back on the opportunities to boost support for education. Internationally the most far sighted countries are using their education system to prepare for the economic upturn. Nick Clegg appears to have understood this.”

Nick’s speech in full appears below:

Posted in News | Tagged christine blower, education, nick clegg and schools | 3 Comments

News updates: tax-dodging Germans and Andrew Rosindell

By Mark Pack | Mon 1st March 2010 - 9:19 pm

In February I reported on the question facing various governments in Europe: should they buy stolen data which will help identify law breaking tax-dodgers? The German government did this in 2008 and the threat of a repeat was sufficient to cause a mini-sampede of people confessing their sins. Nearly 2,500 Germans have now agreed to pay up. That has not been enough to stop the German government though: it has not only purchased the data but is also now talking about making another purchase of an extra CD containing further Swiss data.

More recently, I also linked to a story …

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Green Party candidate abandons Westminster bid to help Lib Dems win in Weston

By The Voice | Mon 1st March 2010 - 6:45 pm

The Weston Mercury has the story:

THE Green Party’s Weston candidate has withdrawn from the General Election contest before it has even begun – because he wants the Liberal Democrats to win. Dr Richard Lawson had been nominated by his party to fight the Weston seat currently held by Conservative John Penrose. But Dr Lawson has today announced his decision to withdraw his candidacy ‘to increase the chance of the Liberal Democrats taking the seat’. …

said: “”My candidature was founded on the idea that Weston was a safe Conservative win. That platform becomes shaky if Weston becomes vulnerable to

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Posted in General Election | Tagged john penrose, mike bell and weston | 15 Comments

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (Feb. ‘10)

By Stephen Tall | Mon 1st March 2010 - 6:20 pm

… We’d say a big thank you to the 33,686 ‘absolute unique visitors’* who read Liberal Democrat Voice in January.

That’s a small decrease compared to our Jan. ’10 figure of c.38,000, but then February is a shorter month – and we are up over 40% on the equivalent figure for Feb ‘09 of c.24,000.

This brings our absolute unique visitor readership for the last year to date (1 March 2009 – 28 Feb 2010) to 316,939, almost 40% higher than the equivalent figure for 2008-09 of 228,076.

The 5 top-read stories during the month were:

1. Clegg sacks Jenny Tonge …

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Lord Cashcroft and the Tory Banana Republic: your LDV reader

By Stephen Tall | Mon 1st March 2010 - 2:10 pm

This morning’s admission by the Tories’ single biggest donor, Lord (Michael) Ashcroft, that in the 10 years he has been a voting peer he has been registered as a non-dom to avoid paying tax on his non-UK income has generated a lot of comment today.

Let’s start with the facts. Lord Ashcroft, through his company Bearwood Corporate Services Ltd, is the biggest donor to the Conservative party, having given a total of £5,137,785.15. Lord Ashcroft made further personal donations of £111,726.09.

Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable named him as a ‘non-dom’ in the Commons in December 2009, asking Harriet Harman to introduce legislation “so that non-doms such as Lord Ashcroft can leave Parliament immediately”. The Sunday Times Rich List 2009 estimated Lord Ashcroft’s fortune at £1.1 billion.

Here’s what Chris Huhne had to say:

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Poll ups pressure on Cameron over TV debates

By Mark Pack | Mon 1st March 2010 - 12:50 pm

I pointed out before that the key to getting a boost in support out of TV leader debates isn’t so much winning the debate as beating expectations: if people expected you to do dreadfully and you come out doing ok that’s almost always a boost to a campaign, whilst being seen as doing ok when the expectations were that you would walk it means you lose support.

So the pressure really is on David Cameron as he’s the one going in to the debates with highest expectations on him according to the latest MORI opinion poll:

Which leader do you …

Posted in Polls | Tagged david cameron, gordon brown, icm, leaders tv debate, mori, nick clegg and yougov | 4 Comments

Conference – not just for conference delegates

By Alex Foster | Mon 1st March 2010 - 12:20 pm

Two weeks from now, the Lib Dems’ spring conference will all be over and delegates will be back home on the ground in their constituencies.

The new location of Birmingham for our conference brings a whole host of opportunities to Lib Dem members who live in parts of the country previously untouched by conference season.

Training

The most important of these is that you do not need to be a delegate to benefit from party training and fringe sessions held away from the main venue. The party is running a full day of training in Birmingham on Saturday, 13th March – and these …

Posted in Conference | Tagged birmingham and fringe | 3 Comments

Obama would have been blocked by Labour – what about the Lib Dems?

By Iain Roberts | Mon 1st March 2010 - 10:50 am

A former US grassroots campaigner, now working in Manchester, has claimed that Labour is an alienating force in our big cities and Obama would never have made it in the Labour Party.

Gregory Galluzo, the Guardian claimed on Saturday, trained Obama in grassroots politics over a decade ago.

Galluzo is quoted in the Guardian as saying:

In my experience the Labour party in your big cities like Manchester is one of the most alienating forces in Great Britain.

It is a very small group of people that controls the city council and they get voted in because they are Labour, not because of

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Posted in Op-eds | Tagged barack obama, black and ethnic minorities, dorothy thornhill, labour party, liberal demcrats and manchester | 15 Comments

Ashcroft finally admits, “I’m a non-dom”

By Stephen Tall | Mon 1st March 2010 - 10:10 am

The BBC reports:

Conservative donor and deputy party chairman Lord Ashcroft has admitted he is “non-domiciled” for tax in the UK. He said he agreed with David Cameron that anyone sitting in the Lords must be “resident and domiciled” in the UK.

He said he expected “to be sitting in the House of Lords for many years to come”, suggesting his status would change if the Tories win the election. Mr Cameron said, in another statement, he was “pleased” that Lord Ashcroft had decided to clarify his position.

Lord Ashcroft has donated millions of pounds to the Conservatives in recent years, much

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Posted in News | Tagged chris huhne, lord ashcroft and zac goldsmith | 10 Comments

Daily View 2×2: 1 March 2010

By Stephen Tall | Mon 1st March 2010 - 9:50 am

It’s Monday morning. It’s the 1st March, and the question everyone’s asking is, “Where the hell did January and February go?”. For our Welsh readers, meanwhile, may we wish you a very happy St David’s Day. On with the day’s main news …

Result of LDV poll on Tories’ evaporating lead

Yesterday LDV ran an insta-poll asking our Twitter followers and site readers what you thought was the main reason why the Tories’ opinion poll lead has shrunk so fast. Here’s what the 147 of you who voted told us:

Posted in Daily View | Tagged chris huhne, david cameron, james graham, malcolm gladwell and steve webb | 2 Comments

Conservative MP disowns leaflet in immigration row

By Mark Pack | Sun 28th February 2010 - 11:11 pm

From today’s Observer:

David Cameron’s Tories were accused last night of dog-whistle politics after the Conservative leader appeared on the front of flyers saying the floodgates had been opened to mass immigration. Critics say the flyers are alarmist and misleading because they imply limits could be imposed on entrants from EU countries such as Poland.

Last night, the party’s frontbench was forced to distance itself from the hard-hitting material, which was put out under the name of Cameron’s home affairs spokesman, Andrew Rosindell …

The Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, said: “These flyers play to people’s worst fears in an

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Posted in News | Tagged andrew rosindell, chris huhne, conservative party, david cameron, immigration and romford | 1 Comment

Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #158

By Stephen Tall | Sun 28th February 2010 - 9:30 pm

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 158th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (21st-27th February, 2010), together with a hand-picked quintet, usually courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

Don’t forget, by the way, you can now sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox – just click here – ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging.

As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work our way down:

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Op-eds

By-Election Report 01.10.26 (Joe Nutt)
Picking our allies, a perspective on Israel/Palestine (Gillian Mosely)
Burnham is right to reform the triple lock; the Lib Dems should support it (James Hill)
Why I won’t Wayve goodbye to Black Cabs (Christian de Vartavan)
Keep the earnings link: don’t repeat the mistakes of the 80s (Chris Perry)

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Vince Cable writes: Drill, baby, drill…or not

Lib Dems must do better on Burnham

Britain should be proud, but never afraid of the stranger

Lib Dem Women: Amplifying women’s voices at Conference

What links Colin Firth, Ken Macdonald, Brian Eno, Gurkha veteran Madan Kumar Gurung, Pam Giddy, Floella Benjamin and Duwayne Brooks?

LibLink: Giles Wilkes – The hidden cost of quantitative easing

Does it matter how young or old an MP is?

Lord Clement-Jones on the Digital Economy Bill: web blocking amendment

Daily View 2×2: 3 March 2010

2 Big Stories

House of Commons reform: contact your MP about tomorrow’s vote

The Independent View: politics, music and a new blog

How do the Lib Dem MPs compare on Twitter? March update

TV leaders debates: what do the rules signify?

Did all the complaints to the PCC over Jan Moir achieve something?

Rules agreed for leaders’ TV debates – and Clegg to open the batting

Opinion: Tory school plans will give parents nightmares

Haggis, Neeps and Liberalism #14: As a liberal republican sees it

Welcome to the new bloggers…

Daily View 2×2: 2 March 2010

Book review: learning from the Obama and McCain online advertising campaigns

Cornwall Conservatives veto Clegg visit

Lib Dems select Nick Griffin’s biographer to fight BNP in Barking

Nick puts schools at heart of vision for fairness

News updates: tax-dodging Germans and Andrew Rosindell

Green Party candidate abandons Westminster bid to help Lib Dems win in Weston

LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did (Feb. ‘10)

Lord Cashcroft and the Tory Banana Republic: your LDV reader

Poll ups pressure on Cameron over TV debates

Conference – not just for conference delegates

Training

Obama would have been blocked by Labour – what about the Lib Dems?

Ashcroft finally admits, “I’m a non-dom”

Daily View 2×2: 1 March 2010

Result of LDV poll on Tories’ evaporating lead

Conservative MP disowns leaflet in immigration row

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