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My Best Posts 2012-2013 23 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
As my contribution to the Lib Dem Voice Awards, I’ve just put together a celebration of a great many posts from a great many other Lib Dem Blogs – so it seems an appropriate day to select my own lates...
Carnival of the Lib Dems – A Celebration of Blog Posts 22 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
Tomorrow, nominations close in the “Liberal Democrat Voice Awards”. These have been thrillingly renamed, relaunched and expanded, but for me the greatest pleasure in them remains celebrating the brill...
Lessons From Coalition – The Two Biggest Problems: Betrayal and Betrayal 21 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
This article comes in two versions: in depth here, and the supercompressed version published as part of Lib Dem Voice’s Lessons From Coalition series. All governments depend on events – some, like th...
Liberal Mondays 5: The World’s End Vs Utopia #LibDemValues 19 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
Sometimes you find a Liberal quotation in a book, a speech or a politician you know. Sometimes you find a Liberal quotation in a Dictionary of Liberal Quotations when your a-bit-too-occasional-lately ...
Doctor Who 50 Great Scenes – 35: Full Circle 18 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Counting down towards the fiftieth birthday of Doctor Who with Fifty great scenes… This one’s from 1980, towards the end of three years starring Tom Baker, K9 and Romana. It’s a brilliantly designed, ...
Doctor Who 50 Great Scenes – 36: The Krotons. Featuring Patrick Troughton, Robert Holmes and the Double Act 7 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Counting down towards the fiftieth birthday of Doctor Who with Fifty great scenes… Now we have a new Doctor and look forward to a new direction for the series, today it’s a celebration of two people w...
Liberal Mondays 4: Ralf Dahrendorf Vs Utopia #LibDemValues 5 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Earlier in the year, I started an occasional series of Liberal quotations that made me think. Perhaps I’ve not been thinking enough, but I haven’t published any for a while. So today I opened Duncan B...
Doctor Who 50 Great Scenes – 37: The Two Doctors 5 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
Counting down towards the fiftieth birthday of Doctor Who with Fifty great scenes… Last time I unleashed the scene-stealing megalomania of the seven TV Masters. Who could follow that but the Doctor si...
Yaxley, Stilton, Ramsay – The New Shag, Marry, Cliff 30 Jul 2013 | 01:35 am
You’ll be familiar with “Shag, Marry, (Throw Off A) Cliff” and all its bowdlerised* variations. It doesn’t do a lot for me: it’s judgemental, it’s shallow, and you never get the exact number of people...
Arrogant, Patronising and Discriminatory: Some of Shirley Williams’ Greatest Mistakes 8 Jul 2013 | 05:12 am
“Equality is not the same as sameness” was the arrogant war-cry of the Apartheid regime and, shamefully, now of Liberal Democrat Queen Mum-equivalent Baroness Shirley Williams. Reports by Pink News an...
