Daily View 2×2: 1 December 2009
Welcome to December (political pinch-punch and no returns?) Today is World Aids Day and also 90 years since the first female MP, Nancy Astor, took her seat in the Commons. 2 Must-Read Blog Posts What...
View ArticleWhat does £10,000 mean to you? To Zac Goldsmith it’s a “very marginal tax...
Under pressure from a deeply unhappy David Cameron, the Tories’ ‘trustafarian millionaire’ candidate for Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith, has at long last pledged to end his non-dom status with immediate...
View ArticleCameron thinks elitism will fix education
The Conservatives think they can improve education in this country by making the teaching profession “brazenly elitist” but it looks like they haven’t done their homework. David Cameron’s latest...
View ArticleNick Clegg’s speech to the Royal College of Nursing
Earlier in the week it was Gordon Brown addressing the nurses but today it was Nick Clegg’s turn. As journalist Paul Waugh put it: Ooh, Matron. Clegg going down a storm with at nurses’ RCN conference....
View ArticleHow the Westminster Village media is still struggling with concept of coalition
It can be surprisingly easy to excite some journalists. Today is a case in point. Nick Clegg stood in for David Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions. During his exchanges with Jack Straw (who was...
View ArticleHughes on Cameron’s council tenancies plans: “It is not a Liberal Democrat...
Lib Dem Voice’s Sara Bedford reported here this morning her reaction to David Cameron’s suggestion that he wanted to look at fixed-term tenancies to help solve the issue of scarce council housing. Lib...
View ArticleLib Dems’ half-term report: gold stars from Simon Hughes – and Paul Waugh
Over at PoliticsHome, Paul Waugh has a very positive piece, highlighting the recent series of announcements which bear a distinctive Liberal Democrat stamp: Today, Nick Clegg can bask in last night’s...
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The Budget: the Liberal Democrat influence
Earlier today the Liberal Democrat Press Office’s Phil Reilly tweeted, “Income Tax cut – from the front page of the @libdems manifesto to the pockets of 25m taxpayers”. Certainly better to pick from...
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So you want to be a political journalist?
A sister title to Shane Greer’s So you want to be a politician?, Sheila Gunn’s So you want to be a political journalist? is a collection of thrity-two lively short chapters giving an insight into the...
View ArticleYou shouldn’t support the arts by supporting artists – Labour MP
A rather revealing complaint by Labour MP Gloria de Piero during the week. She had a go over how much the government is spending on purchasing artworks. If her complaint had been that a time of large...
View ArticleMeet the Lib Dem bloggers: Andrew Reeves
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Andrew Reeves, who blogs at...
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Learning the lessons from last week #3: Grassroots campaigns don’t win...
Liberal Democrats have long known that grassroots campaigns can win a ward, a council or a constituency – but they don’t win national election campaigns. It’s the knowledge that you need both the...
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between Ryan Giggs and Ed Miliband? Nick Clegg tells all…
In the USA they have the White House correspondents’ dinner, an occasion for leading politicians to take pot-shots at the media, themselves, and – most crucially – their opponents. Barack Obama’s...
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EXCLUSIVE: 72% of Lib Dem members backed reshuffle return for David Laws....
Earlier this week, LibDemVoice started asking party members signed up to our discussion forum a range of questions — the survey is still live, but one of the questions is already a little previous so...
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Your essential weekend reader — 8 must-read articles you may have missed
It’s Saturday morning, so here are eight thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices… Three big things I’ve got wrong since I’ve starting blogging and commenting – ConservativeHome’s...
View ArticlePoliticsHome: ‘New Cyril Smith abuse claims’
Paul Waugh at PoliticsHome has published an in-depth article publicising allegations of child abuse against former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith: Sir Cyril Smith became the latest public figure to be...
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Vince the Lib Dem Eurosceptic on the “extraordinarily historically important”...
I’m grateful to PoliticsHome’s Paul Waugh for reporting Vince Cable’s words stressing the importance of the EU’s single market at a time of deep austerity in the western world: “State aide cuts to the...
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5 points on Clegg’s admission that Coalition was wrong to cut capital spending
Nick Clegg has sparked a flurry of excitement with his admission in an interview for The House magazine that the Coalition cut capital spending ‘too far, too fast’ to coin a phrase. Here’s what he said...
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Tim Farron in outspoken and honest interview shock!
An interview with Tim Farron is never a dull one, that’s for sure. I found that out when I spoke to him for the party magazine, Ad Lib, last month — prompting the headline, Lib Dem brand ‘tainted by...
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Page 3 and the Tories: showing their modern, enlightened face
PoliticsHome’s Paul Waugh reports the Tory distress at the axing of one of their favourite parts of The Sun: the long-running News In Briefs section of Page 3 of the Sun (it’s been going since 2003)...
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