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: Britain has become a corporate state, not a free society (51 comments) by Daniel Furr
- Opinion: Moderates vs Radicals: the battle for the Liberal Democrat soul (56 comments) by Sean Davey
- Reshuffle round-up: it looks like good news for Swinson & Laws (60 comments) by Stephen Tall
- Nick Clegg calls for emergency taxes on wealthy (51 comments) by Caron Lindsay
- Tim Leunig writes… Housing priority Number 1: reversing the rise in the age of first-time buyers (39 comments) by Tim Leunig
5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads
- Matthew Oakshott DOES NOT say Lib Dems should ‘depose’ Clegg
- Tasmania considers cigarette ban for anyone born after 2000
- Education ‘reforms’ are fatally flawed
- When do we start selecting PPCs?
- Toynbee’s patronising article has 2 good points
5 from the LDV archive
(August 31st, 2007-11)
- Chris White writes: It’s nice to be hated again (24 comments) by Chris White, from 2011
- LibLink: Stephen Tall on how to cure Lib Dem masochism (6 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
- Even Martin Luther King repeated the same message (2 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2009
- Tavish Scott’s new team (0 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
- Good news for Lib Dems in Norwich South: Charles Clarke has ‘no plans to quit’ (1 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007
5 top reader search returns to get to LDV
(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
- donald gorrie
- avon and somerset police commissioner candidates
- frank dobson bloomsbury council flat
- old mps expenses rules
5 recent Lib Dem tweets
Hope Brian Binley is right about David Cameron being Lib Dem chambermaid. Wondered who kept leaving chocolates on my pillow.
— Alistair Carmichael (@acarmichaelmp) August 30, 2012
Why do papers always say that pregnant women are “showing off their bump”. They’re just going out and doing normal stuff, for goodness sake
— Caron Lindsay (@caronmlindsay) August 31, 2012
So guess we should start designing a space mission worthy of being called Armstrong ASAP
#hero— Craig Brown (@Orcs) August 25, 2012
Been on the phone too long. Just said I was calling on behalf of the Limeral Democrats.
— Jennie Rigg (@miss_s_b) August 28, 2012
Look who’s turned up to
@liberalyouth Training Day! Jeremy Browne MP. COOL GUY twitter.com/kavya_kaushik/…— Kav Kaushik (@kavya_kaushik) August 31, 2012
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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…
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Is there a 4th search term? I would be very surprised to find Lib Dem Voice if I was searching for nothing!