Wed 22nd May 2013 10:28am by Peter Bradwell
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 ...
Posted in Op-eds and The Independent View | No Comments
Wed 22nd May 2013 8:00am by NewsHound
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 ...
Posted in News | 1 Comment
Tue 21st May 2013 8:52pm by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in News | 21 Comments
Tue 21st May 2013 2:29pm by NewsHound
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 ...
Posted in LibLink | 1 Comment
Tue 21st May 2013 12:58pm by Andrew Tibbs
A group of MSPs have declared that they’re going ...
Posted in News | 5 Comments
Tue 21st May 2013 11:43am by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in News and Parliament | 10 Comments
Tue 21st May 2013 10:28am by David Howarth
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 ...
Posted in News | 8 Comments
Tue 21st May 2013 8:55am by Judith Jolly
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 ...
Posted in Op-eds | 2 Comments
Tue 21st May 2013 8:45am by Stephen Tall
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: ...
Posted in Op-eds and Polls | 19 Comments
Mon 20th May 2013 10:55pm by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in News | 67 Comments
Mon 20th May 2013 4:51pm by Mark Valladares
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 ...
Posted in Europe / International, Events and News | 1 Comment
Mon 20th May 2013 3:33pm by Michael Crockart MP
3 years ago Liberal Democrats entered into the ...
Posted in Op-eds | 1 Comment
Mon 20th May 2013 12:58pm by Adrian Trett
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 ...
Posted in Op-eds | 31 Comments
Mon 20th May 2013 11:56am by Stephen Gilbert
May has been a good month for ...
Posted in Op-eds | 14 Comments
Mon 20th May 2013 10:28am by Caron Lindsay
Last week, I said that Liberal Democrats should use the word feminist much more than ...
Posted in News | 9 Comments
Sun 19th May 2013 7:00pm by Caron Lindsay
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 326th weekly round-up from ...
Posted in Best of the blogs | 1 Comment
Sun 19th May 2013 3:25pm by NewsHound
Tim Bale is professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London, an an ...
Posted in LibLink | 12 Comments
Sun 19th May 2013 1:15pm by Stephen Tall
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 ...
Posted in News | 15 Comments
Sun 19th May 2013 11:49am by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in News | 6 Comments
Sun 19th May 2013 10:45am by Stephen Tall
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', ...
Posted in News | 17 Comments
Sun 19th May 2013 8:59am by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
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Sat 18th May 2013 3:45pm by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in Op-eds | 20 Comments
Sat 18th May 2013 2:15pm by NewsHound
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 ...
Posted in LibLink | 8 Comments
Sat 18th May 2013 12:58pm by Lord Roger Roberts
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 ...
Posted in Op-eds | 4 Comments
Sat 18th May 2013 12:15pm by Stephen Tall
Here's the remark attributed to 'a member of the Prime Minister’s inner circle' according ...
Posted in News | 12 Comments
Sat 18th May 2013 11:25am by Edward Davey MP
As we finally emerge from what felt like a never ending winter, many consumers are rightly ...
Posted in Op-eds | 16 Comments
Sat 18th May 2013 9:45am by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in News | 4 Comments
Fri 17th May 2013 5:00pm by Helen Duffett
It's Friday. It's five o'clock. Here's a fistful of lists that sum up the ...
Posted in Friday Five | 1 Comment
Fri 17th May 2013 4:10pm by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in LibLink | 7 Comments
Fri 17th May 2013 3:20pm by Caron Lindsay
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 ...
Posted in Europe / International and LibLink | 6 Comments