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Random Thoughts for 21st October 2013: An insomnia fuelled catch up
No comments on Random Thoughts for 21st October 2013: An insomnia fuelled catch upNot much blogging going on here at the moment. There are reasons for that, although we won’t go into that now, and I am wondering if I ought to change my approach. There doesn’t seem to be much focus or direction to this blog when I do post. However, (and as if to handily illustrate that randomness) I will make use of a night of serious insomnia to catch up with posting some links. So…
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My report of the June 2013 meeting of the English Council
My report of the June 2013 meeting of the Liberal Democrat’s English Council was posted on Liberal Democrat Voice this morning. This is a somewhat delayed report. I’d intended to write it up soon after the meeting but I was away visiting relatives the following Sunday and last week I was busy with work and other things. Still if you’ve been waiting impatiently to find out what happened in all its exciting detail you can…
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Random Thoughts for 18th June 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 10th June 2013 and 18th June 2013: A personal guide to the 13 most essential political podcasts | Stephen Tall Stephen gives a comprehensive guide to the podcast listening choices available for politicos. I regularly listen to a subset of these. The one addition I would make —…
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Random Thoughts for 2nd February 2013
This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occurred to me between 28th January 2013 and 2nd February 2013. This is largely catching up on the political news in January. David Laws announced as chair of manifesto working group I don’t have as much problem with Laws in this role as I know some will have — However, it does…
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My choice for Liberal Voice of the Year 2012
Liberal Democrat Voice’s annual poll to find the Liberal Voice of the Year is a strange beast. Ostensibly it is a search: “to find the individual or group which has had the biggest impact on liberalism in the past 12 months…looking beyond the ranks of the Lib Dems to find the greatest liberal who’s *not* a member of our party.” In reality it is a very odd beauty contest between a disparate range of contestants…
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My report on the November 2012 meeting of the Liberal Democrat’s English Council
My report on the November meeting of the Liberal Democrat’s English Council is now up on Liberal Democrat Voice. The English Council is the governing body of the Liberal Democrats in England and meets twice a year to consider matters of importance to the English Party. This post is part of a series of posts I’ve been writing for Liberal Democrat Voice this year reporting on the activities of the English Party. The main issue I have…
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Top of the Blogs squared
I’ve been busy with work over the last few days and have not been paying much attention to this blog — but I’ve just noticed that this post has appeared in Liberal Democrat Voice’s Top of the Blogs feature two weeks running – here and here. I’m sure it was an oversight rather than a judgement that my insights deserved double exposure — but I’m not complaining! Thanks Helen 😉 Source: This content was originally…
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My report on the June meeting of the English Council
My latest post on the Liberal Democrats English Council is now live on Liberal Democrat Voice; “Report on the June 2012 meeting of the English Council”. To supplement that here are a few, more personal, observations: This was a much better and less grumpy meeting than the first one I attended at the beginning of last year. It gave me more hope that the English party structures are being operated effectively. I was glad that…
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Should I take out an injunction or demand royalties?
I should either take out a super injunction or demand the payment of royalties – that seems to be the advice from friends and colleagues for dealing with my new found minor fame. I am not sure they are being entirely serious. When I wrote about how I had become a poster boy for Lib Dem misery last Friday I expressed the fear that that in the future when someone at the BBC wanted to…
