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The LDV Friday Five: 19 August 2011

By | Fri 19th August 2011 - 5:00 pm

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

  1. Opinion: UK riots – the mystery of the David Willetts’ rule of post-war baby boom peaks (25 comments) by Stuart Bonar
  2. Opinion: Our flawed drug laws are at heart of riots (41 comments) by Ewan Hoyle
  3. Searching for the cause of the riots is asking the wrong question (61 comments) by Iain Roberts
  4. Tim Leunig writes: Riots, Justice and Reconciliation (67 comments) by Tim Leunig
  5. Opinion: the battle for the Electoral Reform Society (25 comments) by Simon McGrath

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. 2015 : 124 seats
  2. The Keynes vs Hayek debate on radio 4 recently
  3. [POLL] If there were only Republicans, which would you vote for?
  4. Imprints
  5. Uk IT/Engineering graduate unemployment c.f. Germany

5 from the LDV archive

(19th August, 2007-10)

  1. Opinion: Community politics has had its day – time to move on (27 comments) by Ed Maxfield, from 2010
  2. Opinion: it’s about more than A-levels (18 comments) by Alan Belmore, from 2010
  3. Ming in the Psychiatrist’s Chair (0 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
  4. Not quite “making it happen” (63 comments) by David Allen, from 2009
  5. Everybody say “Aww…” (5 comments) by Richard Huzzey, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. team london gla
  2. kirsten de keyser
  3. uk id cards scrapped
  4. england riots reasons nick clegg
  5. roger pincham

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @Lucy_Watt Dealing w/ 3 political parties to arrange fringe. Lab: bureaucratic, lots of forms. Tory: contracted out & opted out, LD: cheap & nice.
  • @charlotteahenry Everytime I see a Lib Dem talk about #ukriot punishment it reminds me why I’m a Lib Dem not a Tory. Very proud of our restorative approach.
  • @jamesgraham I’m 36 but I still can’t stop wondering ‘how come magnets never run out of magnetism?’ I am science fail.
  • @MarkReckons Why do ppl keep saying John Bercow’s position is untenable because of his wife’s actions? SHE IS AN INDEPENDENT ADULT FFS!
  • @BrianR0bson Can’t see any Lib Dem councils on list of those who have embraced evictions policy. Good to see Sutton ruling it out : http://t.co/3GBmbvi

    • If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

    That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…

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