Monthly Archives: February 2009

1st	Forthcoming PPC selections (0) by The Voice
	Unforseen circumstances (0) by Alex Foster
	A look back at the polls: January ’09 (5) by Stephen Tall
	What will the political fallout from the peers lobbying scandal be? (3) by Mark Pack
	LDV doesn’t do statporn, but if we did… (Jan ’09) (0) by Stephen Tall
	What’s Labour’s internet operation like? (1) by Mark Pack
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #102 (0) by Stephen Tall
2nd	Clegg condemns Brown’s ‘British jobs for British workers’ dog-whistle (5) by Stephen Tall
	What’s going to happen to UK property prices? (5) by Mark Pack
	Clegg set to spell out Lib Dem post-election demands (39) by Stephen Tall
	25 random things … about the Lib Dems (2) by Stephen Tall
	What planning applications are being made near where you live? (4) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Civil liberties in a modern context (2) by Lynne Featherstone
	Opinion: Angry Union Men – whose fault are the Lincolnshire strikes? (11) by Benjamin Mathis
	And in non-snow related Parliamentary news … (1) by Stephen Tall
3rd	Praise for Tom Brake’s use of Facebook (2) by Mark Pack
	Jonathan Fryer’s Diary of a Euro-candidate (0) by Jonathan Fryer
	The Future Shape of Capitalism – Vince Cable & Andrew Neil (0) by The Voice
	Missing: one marked register (6) by Mark Pack
	How to backup Twitter (2) by Mark Pack
	Lembit reveals all to the Mail (12) by The Voice
	Comment IsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – This crisis must spur us to take on the tax avoiders (4) by Stephen Tall
	David Heath ‘begs to move’ (0) by Stephen Tall
	CC all your email to Jacqui Smith Day (2) by Alex Foster
	LDV up-and-running again – help keep it that way! (0) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: The Elephant In The Room (9) by Edwin Loo
	Lib Dem Scottish and London budget news (0) by Stephen Tall
	Charlie Gordon MSP: the curious case of high expense claims and payments to his son (6) by Mark Pack
4th	Why should opting out of double-glazing direct mail stop you hearing about a local planning application? (0) by Mark Pack
	Why giving out your web address may not be such a good idea (6) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: British jobs for good workers (12) by Rich Wilson
	John Prescott vs Iain Dale (2) by Mark Pack
	Suppression of Torture Evidence (6) by Richard Huzzey
	Lib Dem councillor accused over ambulance (26) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: James Graham on the Channel 4/YouGov poll of marginals (2) by Stephen Tall
	Helpful advice from the Tories about how to beat them at the next election (9) by Joe Taylor
5th	Reflections on Morecambe Bay (0) by Merlene Emerson
	PMQs: Clegg on the tax system and how it is abused (10) by Alix Mortimer
	Nick Clegg announces radical education proposals for England (13) by Mark Pack
	NEW POLL: was the BBC right to ban Carol Thatcher from The One Show? (15) by Stephen Tall
	Steve Webb MP in “Facebook surgery” first (2) by Helen Duffett
	An unusual messaging choice by the London Labour Party (2) by Mark Pack
	Lib Dig Pig #9 (1) by James Graham
	David Miliband – two questions no-one asked him (0) by Hywel Morgan
	Ambulance-chasing, Colin Rosentiel, the Standards Board, and our loss of civic pride (11) by Stephen Tall
	BBC Question Time (5/2/09): open thread (8) by Stephen Tall
6th	Back our campaign to get an elected House of Lords (20) by Nick Clegg MP
	Carnival on Modern Liberty. Part the Third. (4) by Alix Mortimer
	Camden Labour reels as councillor defects to the Lib Dems‏ (3) by Jo Shaw
	The Indy asks The Big Question of Lib Dem class sizes proposal (2) by The Voice
	43% of LDV readers say: yes to managed immigration (11) by Stephen Tall
7th	Lib Dem councillor ‘faces down youths goading dog to attack tree’ (2) by Stephen Tall
	Baker rejects air flight rationing (8) by Stephen Tall
	Labour ‘scrap plans to block wealthy donors’ spending in marginal seats’ (7) by Stephen Tall
	Millennium’s Credit Crunch Diary… January: So is it our Winter of Discontent now? (3) by Millennium Elephant
	Taxis ahoy: how Boris Johnson is spending other people’s money (5) by Mark Pack
	Credit where credit’s (mostly) due: Sunday Telegraph and polling (14) by Mark Pack
	How accurate should forecasts claim to be? (6) by Mark Pack
8th	How accurate are YouGov polls? (5) by Mark Pack
	25 more things (3) by Alex Foster
	Authoritarianism: the Greatest Hits 1 (0) by Alix Mortimer
	Government to follow me on holiday? Give me a break! (7) by Helen Duffett
	Evan wins Secularist of the Year 2009 (2) by The Voice
	Secrecy row over MPs’ foreign trips (6) by Helen Duffett
9th	Y Barcud Oren #4 (5) by Gareth Aubrey
	DLT: Keynesianism (3) by Dictionary of Liberal Thought
	Lembit reveals all to the Mail (Part II) (15) by The Voice
	Hemming campaigns for Britannia coin comeback (9) by Stephen Tall
	Clegg & Cable spell out Lib Dem public spending cuts to fund education priorities (5) by Stephen Tall
10th	NEW POLL: what should be done about bankers’ bonuses? (14) by Stephen Tall
	The political make-up of the House of Lords (1) by Mark Pack
	Do you fancy being Vince’s voice to the press? (0) by The Voice
	Opinion: We must fight the Tories’ plans to privatise the education system (43) by Joe Taylor
	Would the Tories kick Lord ~~Belize~~ Ashcroft out of the Upper Chamber? (0) by Stephen Tall
	Vince to take over from Nick (3) by Stephen Tall
	What Nick’s Facebook friends are saying about his 25 random things (9) by Stephen Tall
11th	Why are we still waiting for details on how MPs spent their Communications Allowance? (5) by Hywel Morgan
	Reasons to doubt that Darwin poll (11) by Mark Pack
	LDV readers say: BBC not justified in banning Carol Thatcher (7) by Stephen Tall
	Evan sticks up for drug adviser in ecstasy row (5) by Stephen Tall
	PMQs: The say-everything-do-nothing Prime Minister (2) by Alix Mortimer
	A letter to Conservative Central Office (3) by Mark Pack
	Laws: schools focus on average pupils to ‘flatter league tables’ (11) by The Voice
	Brake: fears Olympics will turn into new Millennium Dome (2) by The Voice
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #103 (2) by Stephen Tall
12th	Live from Vince’s crowded mantelpiece (1) by Alix Mortimer
	Ecstasy – a very political drug (8) by Alix Mortimer
	Lamb criticises “MMR scaremongering” (3) by The Voice
	Lib Dig Pig #10 (0) by James Graham
	Early voting: why did we bother spending years (and lots of money) on piloting it? (12) by Mark Pack
	Social Liberal Forum launched (40) by Matthew Sowemimo
	Boris Johnson: you shouldn’t have expected me to be good on details (0) by Mark Pack
	LibDig sprouts two new features (2) by Mark Pack
	Jenny Randerson lodges official complaint against Rhodri Morgan with, erm, Rhodri Morgan (0) by Stephen Tall
	Was Chris Huhne right to say Geert Wilders should be banned from the UK? (204) by Stephen Tall
	Does the Israeli election result prove PR just doesn’t work? (4) by Stephen Tall
	BBC Question Time (12/2/09): open thread (8) by Stephen Tall
13th	Opinion: Wilders’ Contradictions (25) by George Turner
	£46m to spy on our communications – and we have to pay for it (2) by Helen Duffett
	David Howarth MP writes… My top priorities as Lib Dem shadow secretary of state for justice (5) by David Howarth
14th	Searching YouTube: two handy sites (1) by Mark Pack
	Tom Brake wuz robbed (7) by Alex Foster
	Riso Monkey Diary… Have you MET the public? (8) by Lib Dem Riso Monkey
	Two key figures sacked in surprise government reshuffle (4) by Mark Pack
15th	Canonical URLs: improving your website’s performance in search engines (8) by Mark Pack
	The next six groups to get ID cards? (4) by Helen Duffett
	Times features Nick’s and LDV’s ’25 random things’ (0) by Stephen Tall
	And the moral of the story is…? Energy efficiency begins at home (4) by The Voice
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #104 (2) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Tim Leunig – Co-ordinated inflation could bail us all out (5) by The Voice
16th	New edition of Liberator (0) by The Liberator Collective
	What to do if you liked anything you read on this site last week (0) by Mark Pack
	US soldiers given citizenship (2) by Alex Foster
	Do you remember how PFI was meant to work? (3) by Mark Pack
	Bumper Catchup (1) by Alex Foster
	Derek Draper, LabourList and all that stuff (15) by Mark Pack
	Actually, energy efficiency begins in Nottingham (4) by Alex Foster
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – Bewildered for now, but there’s anger to come (0) by The Voice
	Opinion: The only way to solve the credit crisis is to fully nationalise Lloyds, HBOS and RBS (5) by Joe Taylor
17th	Six ways to get more people watching your YouTube videos (1) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Fitna (122) by Laurence Boyce
	Howard Dean to speak at Liberal Democrat Spring Conference (6) by Helen Duffett
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Nick Clegg – There’s a job at home for out-of-work dads (0) by The Voice
	Paddy: Scottish Lib Dems wrong to veto independence referendum (4) by Stephen Tall
	The Liberal 1st XI (11) by Hywel Morgan
	Conservatives split over London Low Emission Zone (0) by Helen Duffett
	Duwayne Brooks: “The smart young man with a clipboard in one hand and Liberal Democrat leaflets in the other” (5) by The Voice
	Hot on the heels (0) by Alex Foster
18th	How The Guardian completely misreported an opinion poll finding (7) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Why we should be learning lessons from Howard Dean (1) by Lynne Featherstone
	At the third time of asking, Jacqui Smith gets investigated (1) by Mark Pack
	@LibDig Pig Number Eleven (1) by James Graham
	Facebook pages: big changes on the way (2) by Mark Pack
	Our correspondents in Scotland (2) by Bernard Salmon
	Why Nick was right to speak out (21) by Stephen Tall
	Pressure grows on Jacqui Smith over expense claims (5) by Mark Pack
19th	Why David Cameron is right, Boris Johnson muddled and James Cleverly just plain wrong (2) by Mike Tuffrey
	Are you throwing away readers by posting at the wrong time? (16) by Mark Pack
	David Cameron: I’m cheap, lurching to the left and not sensible (17) by Mark Pack
	LDV, ConHome and DraperList go head-to-head (ish) (0) by Stephen Tall
	Vince to tread the boards (2) by Stephen Tall
	BBC Question Time (19/2/09): open thread (8) by Stephen Tall
20th	Cameron / Clegg yawn (18) by Alex Foster
	A little Twitter gem for those interested in what Liberal Democrats are saying (0) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: We’re a diverse party, get over it already (40) by Colin Lloyd
	LDV Team meeting (8) by Alex Foster
	When being called a Liberal Democrat is taken as an insult (7) by Stephen Tall
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Norman Baker – It might be legal, but it’s not right (2) by The Voice
	Lib Dem housing proposals unveiled (1) by Stephen Tall
	Is Martin Kettle right – could the Lib Dems eclipse Labour? (35) by Stephen Tall
	What have James Purnell, Geoffrey Howe and Elvis Presley got in common? (0) by Mark Pack
	Labour, Lewisham and the BNP (8) by Mark Pack
21st	Exciting news about Lib Dem Conference (7) by Alex Foster
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – Why our economy is trapped in a time warp of tribal politics (2) by The Voice
	Getting on the Liberal Democrat extranet (2) by Mark Pack
	Vince features in the FT’s ‘My first million’ (0) by Stephen Tall
	Electoral Commission to investigate Ashcroft’s donations to the Tories (2) by Mark Pack
	Conservative MP Chris Grayling under fire for his expense claims (0) by Mark Pack
22nd	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Vince Cable – Let’s make a virtue out of thrift again (0) by The Voice
	Who’d be a Labour or Tory MP right now? (4) by Stephen Tall
	Catchup 22/02/2009 (1) by Alex Foster
	Had a busy weekend campaigning or policy making? (2) by Mark Pack
	Labour renews efforts to undermine UK universities (1) by Richard Huzzey
23rd	Congratulations to Nick and Miriam (6) by Stephen Tall
	Opinion: Safe as houses (6) by Merlene Emerson
	CommentIsLinked@LDV: Nick Clegg – We need to clean up our act … now! (0) by The Voice
	Account suspended – for the final time? (0) by Alex Foster
	Clegg Baby photos (1) by Alex Foster
	Has Chris Grayling put his foot in it? (2) by Mark Pack
	ConHome: ‘Tories ponder “generous outreach to Lib Dems”’ Love-bomb or genuine? (7) by Stephen Tall
	When is a council spending £70,000 on supporting public transport a bad thing? (4) by Mark Pack
24th	In defence of Chris Grayling (19) by Alix Mortimer
	Lord Ashcroft and the Conservative Party: the financial controversies (1) by Mark Pack
	Y Barcud Oren #5 (0) by Gareth Aubrey
	Tories: put your money where your mouth is (2) by Alex Foster
	MPs Are Very Good At T’Internet Shocker (1) by Mark Pack
	Do you have a Liberal Democrats Account? (1) by Mark Pack
	Boris Johnson breaks another election promise (3) by Mark Pack
	Straw vetoes release of Iraq minutes: a nearly-LDV exclusive (5) by Alix Mortimer
	The Elephant Interviews… The President (0) by Millennium Elephant
	YouGov’s polling panels: an interesting snippet from Peter Riddell (1) by Mark Pack
25th	Cabinet minutes on Iraq 1: Straw vetoes, Lib Dems oppose (4) by Mark Pack
	Cabinet minutes on Iraq 2: Can you guess what Dominic Grieve said next? (0) by Mark Pack
	David Cameron’s son, Ivan, dies (2) by Stephen Tall
	@LibDig Pig Number Twelve (0) by James Graham
	Electoral Commission changes the way it reports loans that aren’t really loans (0) by Mark Pack
	Cable leads Lib Dem sympathies for the Camerons (1) by Stephen Tall
	Conservative bloggers don’t like their party’s support for Jack Straw’s Iraq veto (2) by Mark Pack
	Congratulations Alix (3) by Mark Pack
	Those Lib Dem donation figures in full (Q4, 2008) (0) by Stephen Tall
	Conservatives receive £1.4 million in anonymous donations (0) by Mark Pack
26th	According to the Daily Mail, I’m a foreigner (30) by Mark Pack
	You’d be a twit not to tweet (1) by Mark Pack
	Has David Cameron gagged David Davis? (4) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: In praise of left and right (45) by Colin Lloyd
	Freedom Bill launched (7) by Mark Pack
	Opinion: Is Lord Ashdown the IT industry’s patsy? (22) by James Graham
	Tavish vetoes SNP independence referendum hopes (5) by Stephen Tall
	Conservative Brian Coleman runs up big expenses, again (0) by Mark Pack
	Facebook can cause “MP envy” (1) by Helen Duffett
	Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #105 (0) by Stephen Tall
	Site Down Time (0) by Ryan Cullen
	BBC Question Time (26/2/09): open thread (5) by Stephen Tall
27th	How much is £693,000 a year? (13) by Mark Pack
	Boris Johnson and the Evening Standard: it’s amazing what a change of editor can do (0) by Mark Pack
	The dark side of citizen journalism: The Sun and the bus driver libel case (4) by Mark Pack
	How The Telegraph misreported today’s YouGov poll findings on immigration (0) by Mark Pack
	How David Lammy has exaggerated the BNP’s popularity (17) by Mark Pack
28th	New Server Up and Running (5) by Ryan Cullen