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Pre-conference post 9 Mar 2012 | 11:24 pm
I'm not going to have time to to do much posting during the Lib Dem Party's Spring Conference this weekend in Gateshead, for which many of you will probably breathe a huge sigh of relief. If I weren't...
"Tick, tock, goes the clock..." 30 Oct 2011 | 12:12 am
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PSA - break from DW 15 Sep 2011 | 10:32 pm
Taking a voluntary break from LJ/DJ/DW for a while. This is not a result of any one event directly, but is an acknowledgement that I currently simply don't have time/spoons/bandwidth to engage on-line...
'Well, OK, I suppose so' to AV 28 Apr 2011 | 08:36 pm
Next week, I get to vote in a UK referendum for the first time ever; hardly surprising, as there's only been one before in 1975, and I'm not that old. I'll be voting in favour of AV [1]; I don't like ...
First and Second Law 14 Jan 2011 | 09:25 am
When I was a young Liberal, my friends and I regularly used to do sketches at post-election parties to entertain the troops. Most of these are (mercifully) lost to history, but for some reason I can r...
Elwyn Watkins needs your help 26 Nov 2010 | 09:22 am
Sometimes, messages from Lib Dem HQ have a timing that's ... unfortunate. For example, yesterday, I received an e-mail from Sarah Teather entitled 'Delivering a fair start for every child' at around t...
Breaking pledges 25 Nov 2010 | 10:14 am
I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Nick Clegg's statements on tuition fees (and that starts from a fairly high level of frustration with him for singling them out as one of our long-term policie...
Stephen Fry, you're no Douglas Adams 31 Oct 2010 | 06:56 pm
As I reported on Twitter yesterday, Stephen Fry - broadcaster, writer, polymath and Great British Institution - has patiently explained to all us straight men that our unfortunate situation is due to ...
I'm proud of the welfare state 21 Oct 2010 | 03:11 pm
There's a scene in Babylon Five, in which Vir Cotto finds himself unexpectedly in a lift with G'Kar. Vir Cotto's people, the Centauri, have just launched a devastating attack on G'Kar's people, the Na...
Civil partnerships less equal to marriage than previously thought 21 Sep 2010 | 07:10 pm
I missed what was apparently the highlight of Conference yesterday. Not Nick Clegg's speech (which was IMO good, if perhaps understandably serious and businesslike), but Ben Summerskill of Stonewall's...
