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Stephen Tall

BBC Question Time: open thread

By Stephen Tall | Thu 29th November 2007 - 9:50 pm

Sarah Teather, Lib Dem Shadow Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, is one of the panellists on tonight’s edition of Question Time (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm GMT).

She’ll be alongside Minister of State for Employment Caroline Flint, Conservative Shadow Secretary for Business Alan Duncan, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and businessman Paul Myners.

If you’re watching, and want to sound-off, please feel free to use the comments thread.

Posted in Lib Dem TV | 34 Comments
Stephen Tall

BBC Question Time: open thread

By Stephen Tall | Thu 22nd November 2007 - 9:50 pm

Former Liberal leader Lord Steel is one of the panellists on tonight’s edition of Question Time (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm GMT).

He’ll be alongside Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander, Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie, and David Aaronovitch columnist for The Times.

If you’re watching, and want to sound-off, please feel free to use the comments thread.

Posted in Lib Dem TV and Scotland | 13 Comments
Stephen Tall

Opinion: The post-match QT analysis

By Stephen Tall | Fri 16th November 2007 - 4:57 pm

The post-match blog analysis on the Question Time leadership special has been pretty evenly split, with a tilt towards Chris Huhne having gained the edge overall.

(Paul Walter linked through to the early reaction this morning; more have appeared since – check out the Lib Dem blog aggregator for the latest. And, if you haven’t watched the programme yet, you can see it online here.)

Last night did little to help make up my mind: both candidates, I thought, performed equally well, and displayed almost to the full their respective strengths. Which is why I take with a pinch …

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Stephen Tall

BBC Question Time: Lib Dem leadership election special – open thread

By Stephen Tall | Thu 15th November 2007 - 9:19 pm

The two contenders for the Liberal Democrat leadership – Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne – go head-to-head on tonight’s special edition of Question Time (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm GMT).

The pressure will be on. Though Question Time’s audience is not large (a couple of million, or so), it’s likely that a high proportion of Lib Dem members will be tuning in; many times more than will attend all the hustings events combined. For many of the so-called ‘armchair membership’, their assessment of how each candidate has performed tonight will decide how they choose to cast their …

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Posted in Leadership Election and Lib Dem TV | 121 Comments
The Voice

BBC Question Time – open thread

By The Voice | Thu 8th November 2007 - 9:50 pm

Acting Lib Dem leader Vince Cable is one of the panellists on tonight’s edition of Question Time (broadcast on BBC1 and online from 10.35 pm GMT).

He’ll be alongside Home Office minister Tony McNulty, former Tory deputy leader Lord Heseltine, the British-Egyptian novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif, and the journalist and writer Douglas Murray.

If you’re watching, and want to sound-off, please feel free to use the comments thread.

Posted in Lib Dem TV | 35 Comments

Conservative Question Time

By the founding editor | Fri 3rd November 2006 - 12:20 pm

DimblebyIf you were as hacked off as I was that last night’s Question Time had three Conservatives on it, do take the time to send in a complaint to the BBC.

Menzies Campbell did a good job on the panel, but both he and Charles Clarke were largely drowned out by Heseltine, Platell and the increasingly barmy Hitchens – a very unbalanced programme, even under David Dimbleby’s stewardship.

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