The Independent View: An invitation to ORGCon 2013: the UK’s leading digital rights conference

It becomes clearer every year how technology affects our rights and civil liberties in all sorts of ways. Businesses or governments try to block access ...

Nick Clegg and Paddy Ashdown win the argument on Afghan interpreters

The BBC reports: Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are to be given the right to live in the UK, government ...

Same sex Marriage: another Liberal Democrat victory

The House of Commons has passed the Marriage (Same sex couples) Bill at Third Reading stage with a whopping majority of 205. Next stop for this ...

LibLink…Paddy Ashdown: Let us not leave Afghanistan with this final gesture of betrayal and dishonour

Paddy Ashdown has written a hard-hitting article for the Yorkshire Post in which he implores the Government to give Afghan interpreters who have helped UK ...

Opinion: Nationalists want to monitor the BBC!

A group of MSPs have declared that they’re going ...

How Liberal Democrat MPs voted on same sex marriage amendments

The only vote which had been published before I went to my bed last night was that on freedom of conscience for registrars. I've ...

Opinion: Have we changed our policy on an in-out referendum?

In Andrew Neil's Sunday Politics interview with Danny Alexander, Neil asserted that we have changed our policy on an in-out referendum. Is he right? Our ...

Baroness Judith Jolly writes: new Social Care Bill focuses on people not systems

The Care Bill is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reform the social care system. Currently there is a morass of legislation, confusing to those who ...

Opinion polls yadda yadda. OR “Does Nate Silver mean nothing to you? Did he write in vain?”

Two new polls last night: the daily YouGov tracker and the first post-local elections poll from Survation. The spread is interesting: Labour: 35% (Survation 39% (YouGov) Conservatives: ...

11 Liberal Democrat MPs vote for registrars to be exempt from marrying same sex couples

The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill has made fairly easy progress through the Commons tonight. After a Government/Labour compromise on a review for extending civil ...

ALDE Party Congress venue for 2013 announced… welcome to London!

The Liberal Democrats are proud to announce the hosting of the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe) Congress in London at the end ...

Mike Crockart MP writes… Reducing reoffending and cutting crime

3 years ago Liberal Democrats entered into the ...

Opinion: Lib Dem MPs: Vote for equality, human rights and love today

The culmination of more than three years of heartfelt campaigning by the LGBT+ Lib Dems finally comes to the final hurdle in the House of ...

Stephen Gilbert MP writes… Equal marriage is now a litmus test for Cameron

May has been a good month for ...

Jo Swinson uses the F word in Guardian interview

Last week, I said that Liberal Democrats should use the word feminist much more than ...

Top of the Blogs: The Lib Dem Golden Dozen #326

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 326th weekly round-up from ...

LibLink: Tim Bale – “The biggest effect of the Lib Dems holding their nerve has been to help the Conservatives lose theirs”

Tim Bale is professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London, an an ...

The Sun story about Chris Huhne that was a total invention (and which the other papers happily copied)

Remember that front page Sun story from 13 March? On the off-chance Voice readers missed this exclusive, let's refersh your memory of the splash: Disgraced MP ...

In full: David Steel’s lecture on the centenary of Jo Grimond’s birth

Liberal Democrats including Alistair Carmichael (ok, so he lives there), Willie Rennie, David Steel and Nick Clegg have headed to Orkney this weekend to celebrate ...

Nick Clegg’s Letter from the Leader: “Of course the EU has to change”

No prizes for guessing which subject Nick Clegg tackles in his latest weekly letter to supporters: Europe. He rattles through the three positions: 'calamitous outers', ...

Vince on living in Africa, love against the odds and helping people

Vince Cable has been talking to the Telegraph about his varied and interesting life. From meeting his first wife while both were working in a ...

When Mr Farage came to Edinburgh – the ugly side of politics

It was misbehaviour all round when the UKIP leader came to Edinburgh on Thursday. He found himself on the receiving end of a noisy protest ...

LibLink: Nick Thornsby – As a Liberal Democrat, I ask, “What are you, our Coalition partners, playing at?”

LibDemVoice's Nick Thornsby has been on recce behind enemy lines, writing for ConservativeHome on the past week's Tory implosion over Europe: It is clear to everyone ...

Lord Roger Roberts writes: Don’t try to win votes by coming down hard on migrants

This year is very special: it is the 20th anniversary of the Maastricht treaty. We have, since 1993, been European citizens, each of us endowed ...

“They’re all mad, swivel-eyed loons”: a top Tory on the Tories

Here's the remark attributed to 'a member of the Prime Minister’s inner circle' according ...

Edward Davey writes… Helping consumers to get cheaper energy bills

As we finally emerge from what felt like a never ending winter, many consumers are rightly ...

Lynne Featherstone: If you think a girl is in danger of being forced to endure FGM, tell the Police

Lynne Featherstone has urged anyone who suspects a girl may be at risk of being forced to endure Female Genital Mutilation to go to the ...

The LDV Friday Five: 17 May 2013

It's Friday. It's five o'clock. Here's a fistful of lists that sum up the ...

LibLink…Giles Goodall: LGBT rights in Europe – La vie en Rose?

South East region Euro candidate Giles Goodall has written an article for Pink News for the International Day against homophobia and transphobia looking at LGBT ...

LibLink.. Edward McMillan-Scott MEP: The EU and US must promote human rights worldwide – that includes China

Yorkshire and Humber Liberal Democrat MEP Edward McMillan-Scott has co-written a Guardian article with Chinese human rights activist Chen Guancheng arguing that just because China ...