Tag Archives: helena kennedy

Your essential weekend reader — my personal pick of the week’s must-reads

It’s Saturday evening, so here are twelve thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices culled from all those I’ve linked to this last week. You can follow me on Delicious here.

Political predictions: as the year ends, what does 2013 hold for the main party leaders? – Andrew Rawnsley sanely assesses the 12 months to come: ‘Nick Clegg and David Cameron face more of the same. Ed Miliband’s future is more complicated. He has choices.’

No longer the dunce – Anne McElvoy whispers the …

Posted in News | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , and | 1 Comment

Compass want Lib Dems at its conference

As a visitor to LibDemVoice you may or may not be aware of the work of Compass – the influential pressure group that campaigns for a more democratic, equal and sustainable world. Compass is about building a broadly based Liberal Left politics and as a Liberal Democrat activist we wanted to introduce you to our important work and to invite you to attend our National Conference on Saturday 13 June.

We believe that both the Tory and Labour leaderships want to turn back as soon as possible to the failed politics of the pre-crash – both in terms of the old economy …

Posted in The Independent View | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and | 14 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Jana
    Looks like a night that would have pleased Restore who contested all 6 seats, with a huge 27.8% in Huncoat and other results between a low of 4.4% and 11.3%. ...
  • Jamie Dobson
    Distinctive food for contemplating - and acting upon!...
  • PM
    @ Russell, So you are saying the Windrush and other Caribbean migrants, most migrants from counties like Nigeria, India etc have been a drain on the economy....
  • Graham Jeffs
    @Tristan Ward Your argument is perfectly sound. We don't have to move to the right - many who have voted Conservative over the past decades have done so ...
  • Denis Mollison
    I was at the announcement (in Wadebridge I think) of the result in April 1966 when John Pardoe won it back from the Conservatives! Good to see this repeated at ...