Welcome to the 29th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (2nd – 9th September), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.
Without further ado:
1. Am I too ‘right wing’ for the Lib Dems? on Tristan Mills’ Liberty Alone
A sequel to last week’s post by Barrie Wood. Here, Tristan explains why he’s a libertarian Lib Dem, and initiates a cracking comments section debate to boot.
2. Independent on the LibDems – suicide is painless on Paul Walter’s Liberal Burblings
‘I remember when we had only six MPs’ he consoles.
3. Did Labour hypocrisy kill their campaign in Crystal Palace? on Duncan Borrowman’s blog
Duncan brings Labour to book over library spin.
4. Has the KoS learnt the meaning of Liberalism? on Duncan Borrowman’s blog
Kent on Sunday? I thought the Shropshire Star was the Lib Dem blogosophere’s paper of record.
5. Lib Dem blogger storms by-election on Duncan Borrowman’s blog
A poll epic by the Liberal Polemic blogger Cllr. Tom Papworth, as reported by Duncan.
6. ‘Ming you’re useless. You’ve got to go’ on Paul Walter’s Liberal Burblings
An attention-grabbing headline that takes us to a precis of Da Fink’s attack on his non-continuing-SDP cousins.
7. What’s wrong with libdems.org? by Barcharters Anonymous
Can you find the Yellow Screen of Death?
And here’s five that caught my eye as it wandered the blogs this week:
8. Why fewer children are taking school meals on Jonathan Calder’s blog
“I am a liberal because I believe that people are the best judge of their own interests. What sometimes puzzles me is why people who do not share this optimism declare that they are liberals too.”
9. Conference: we must continue to back full minimum wage for over-16s on Anthony Hook’s blog
A polemic on an issue coming up for conference. Let the pre-debate commence…
10. The coalition question. Again. on Jonny Wright’s Hug A Hoodie blog
He can write interesting posts on Mark Oaten’s coalition ideas and deliver my Focus leaflets. This boy will go far.
11. Putting the genie back in the bottle on Jock Coats’ blog
“Storing our DNA is storing a little part of each and every one of us. As I said last week, our DNA should be subject to habeas corpus. It’s like putting us all on bail for further questioning, sometime, about any other matter they feel we might be able to help with.”
12. It Would Appear That My Faceless Days Are Over by Liberal Bureaucrat Mark Valladares
The happy couple’s news is telegraphed to the dead tree press, and also via Facebook.
And I will cheekily also point you towards Blog of the Year Awards 2007: The Shortlists (here on Lib Dem Voice) as you’ll find links to some great posts from the past year.
* Richard Huzzey is one of the few people left in Britain who hasn’t been asked by Gordon Brown to lead a policy review.
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2 Comments
You might hand pick the quintet, but does that mean you can mess around with the title?
I wanted to put the genie back in the bottle, not on my bottom…:)
Thank you…:) I can’t think what a genie was doing up there in the first place!