It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:
5 most-read stories on LDV this week
- Opinion: It’s time for Nick Clegg to make the liberal case on drugs policy (31 comments) by Mark Thompson
- It’s not just this Government that’s unpopular: it’s the idea of Coalition. Here’s what Lib Dems need to do about that. (62 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Alistair Carmichael MP writes… Why I’ve put the whip away for the Equal Marriage vote (38 comments) by Alistair Carmichael MP
- Equal marriage: it’s a matter of religious freedom (55 comments) by Mark Pack
- Councillors’ home attacked and death threats – all because of a flag (47 comments) by The Voice
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Am I the only non-Federalist European?
- Multinationals and Corporate Tax
- Liberal Democrats should now abandon support for the Euro
- Monarchy
- Milliband plays the immigration card
5 from the LDV archive
(14th December , 2007-11)
- Should the Lib Dem president be neutral in leadership elections? (23 comments) by Stephen Tall , from 2007
- Catchup, 14th December (0 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
- Hypocrite Humphrys’ bonus bunk (8 comments) by Chris White , from 2009
- Planet Earth to Grayson ( 62 comments) by Richard Kemp, from 2010
- 14 Liberal Democrat rebels help defeat housing benefit cuts in the House of Lords (29 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2010
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- albert einstein
- ebacc
- scottish independence
- ian sanderson
- minimum wage 2013
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
New blog post, in which Nick Clegg agrees with Lib Dem policy on drugs, and I agree with him: nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2403
— Nick Barlow (@nickjbarlow) December 14, 2012
Better pump my tyres up and grow my sideburns, Tour de France coming to London in July #cycling
— Tom Brake MP (@thomasbrake) December 14, 2012
The campaign continues… Are you a #LibDem? Do you like #secretcourts? If not, have you signed the petition? libdemsagainstsecretcourts.org.uk
— Jo Shaw (@_JoShaw) December 12, 2012
I did not seek re-selection as Parly candidate and will be supporting the excellent new candidate @laylamoran in OxWAb next time.
— Dr Evan Harris (@DrEvanHarris) December 11, 2012
Needless to say I have just read the new Lib Dem magazine – beard and sandles in print 🙁
— laura willoughby (@lcwilloughby) December 9, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.



2 Comments
Seriously, how do people who search for Einstein end up here?
John: Thanks to variations on this theme – https://www.libdemvoice.org/tag/albert-einstein