Monthly Archives: August 2006

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1. The Lib Dems are at a crossroads - an open letter to the leadership
2. ALDC By-Election Report, 4th December
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Op-eds

• The Additional Member System and its overhang problem (Denis Mollison)
• Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
• Observations of an Expat: MAGA Conned (Tom Arms)
• The “right” to a jury trial – a Scottish perspective (Stephen Harte)
• A public demonstration of Russian state terror (Jack Meredith)

• Tories and Reform have big falling out in Leicestershire over alleged threats of violence
• Giant purple dinosaurs, giant chickens and CCTV
• Jethro Tull: A New Day Yesterday
• Riverside Drive #dundeewestend
• Farage under pressure as the past comes back to bite him
• Birtley north action day
• Sally Ann Howes couldn't cry for toffees: Why have child actors got so much better?
• Like Mr Bumble, one master of Brixworth Workhouse ended as an inmate of his own establishment
• Latest voting intention and leadership ratings opinion polls
• Professor Thomas Seyfried and the question as to whether cancer is primarily nucDNA or mtDNA

Recent Comments

• Mick Taylor
  Let's get this into perspective. The total expenditure of the UK government is £1416 billion. To most people £2 billion is a lot of money, but it is just 0.14...
• Jenny Smith
  @Ambighter Yes, £2Bn would be the total if a million people cheated to the tune of £2,000 each. Thinking of it another way, that £2Bn would allow 1 milli...
• Jenny Smith
  The problem with the Scottish form of AMS is that the system used was a compromise agreed by, and designed to meet the needs of, Labour and the Liberal Democrat...
• David Le Grice
  The problem Germany had with adding seats to deal with overhang is that they insisted on adding new seats to every region and did so just by expanding the size ...
• Russell
  Totally agree. NZ also uses MMP and they have a good system for eliminating the overhang. Simply create additional MPs to ensure proportionality. NZers like the...