Liberal Democrat MP Max Wilkinson has written to Ofcom about the prominence the BBC gave to Nigel Farage on Thursday night: [IMG: Max Wilkinson lettter to Ofcom p1] [IMG: Max Wilkinson lettter to Ofcom p2] Hat-tip: @PolitLcsUK Sign up to get the latest news and analysis
The judges were grateful that, on such a hot day, there was no need to hold a lengthy meeting. By universal acclamation, Nottinghamshire Live wins our Headline of the Day Award. I'm reminded of an old Julian Clary joke: "I joined Amnesty International and wrote to General Pinochet. He wrote back and now we're pen friends."
"I couldn't shake the fear that future generations might never experience the world as I had, that we might go down in history as the generation that knew exactly what was coming, but chose to look away. That's what brought me into parliament." Roz Savage explains why she supports statutory targets on climate and nature. Alfie Steer considers the prospects for a new party to the left of Labour: "Peter Mandelson is once reported to have said that disillusioned left-wing Labour voters simply had 'nowhere else to go'. But Sultana and Corbyn's left party may be the biggest challenge to ...
When Christine Jardine was sacked as the Liberal Democrats' spokesperson Women and Equalities and on Scotland, some bright spark briefed the press that: "We are not in the business of dancing to the tune of the Conservatives through symbolic votes and virtue signalling." Simon Titley used to talk of the "belligerent youths" who surrounded Nick Clegg. Judging by that statement, they're back under Ed Davey. Christine Jardine was universally regarded as an effective front-bench spokesperson, and to lose her over what has been called "an arcane procedural matter" - she voted against an appalling Conservative amendment she had been told ...
The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. This is what can be found on the back of every Lib Dem membership card. The part I want to focus on in this piece is the point regarding a "fair, free and open society". One person's concept of freedom may differ from another's. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss it. Freedom is the right of ...
A bumper set of ten principal authority council by-elections this week. Nine of them had Liberal Democrat candidates, up from six the last time these wards were up. Let's start with a successful Lib Dem defence with a North Korean style vote share: Botley & Sunningwell (Vale of White Horse) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 71.5% (+7.9) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 15.8% (-1.8) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 12.7% (+11.2)No LAB (-17.4) as previous.Liberal Democrat HOLD.Changes w/ 2023. — Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2025-07-10T23:01:55.525Z For what all this means for the running total of council by-election results since the last May elections, ...
There's a table top sale in the Corso Street sheltered lounge tomorrow - Saturday 12th July - 10.30am to 2.30pm - all welcome!
Wales may not be getting the money it is entitled to for railway investment, nor is much, if any of the money being spent west of Cardiff, but there still remain unanswered questions as to the timetable for delivering the earmarked projects. Wales-on-line reports that there is currently no date for when rail improvements promised by the UK Government will start, nor any indication of where the first works will take place. The Treasury's paperwork said the following was being promised: "£300m for rail investment in Wales, including for the Burns Review stations, North Wales Level Crossing, Padeswood Sidings and ...
