The Guardian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
• 'It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo trunks' • Lib Dems seek inquiry over Sir John Sawers exposure The foreign secretary, David Miliband, today attempted to play down the significance of internet photographs showing Britain's new spy boss holidaying with his children and other relatives and friends. The family photos were posted on Facebook by Sir John Sawers's wife, Shelley,...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
LibDemVoice had the cheek to complain a fortnight ago that a Tory bar graph wasn't 100% fair (although it was perfectly ok). I hope they will disown the bar chart that appears on their new leaflet in Norwich North! Just...
View From Milsey Bay (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
With the recent decision of the local party convenor not to accept the nomination for Westminster PPC (read report in Courier from here ) and to resign from that post are the local party in chaos? To say that Stuart Currie's decision came as a shock to most members is an understatement. According to reports even his wife was left dumbfounded! If he'd just left his statement to the nomination that could...
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Yesterday I read in Patrick Hannan's book A Useful Fiction : "As for those Dawkins opposes [religions] , it's difficult to escape the conclusion that, far from concerning themselves with central questions of belief and the way in which they should shape the lives of their congregations, Christian churches have become almost completely preoccupied by disputes about the sexual practises of the clergy."...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
2 Big Stories MI6 head’s wife posts private details to Facebook I’ll try and be charitable here. After all, spouses and partners do not choose their loved ones jobs. But, really, if you are married to the incoming head of MI6 there are certain things you just don’t do, such as provide details about your kids and [...]
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
• 'It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo trunks' • Lib Dems seek inquiry over Sir John Sawers exposure The foreign secretary, David Miliband, today attempted to play down the significance of internet photographs showing Britain's new spy boss holidaying with his children and other relatives...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Cast your minds back a couple of weeks, and there was a bout of speculation that Labour, under pressure from the NAS/UWT teaching union, is considering a possible ban on British National Party members working as teachers in schools. We asked LDV readers the question: Do you think there should be a change to teachers’ [...]
Eric Avebury (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Work in pipeline By MICHELLE COOKE - East And Bays Courier Last updated 05:00 26/06/2009 The east and bays area has three major water projects in the pipeline. The water supply at Remuera and Mt Wellington are currently being upgraded, while work on the Hobson pipeline is continuing in preparation for the tunnel to open next year. Auckland city councillor and finance and strategy committee chairman...
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
I know that service personnel and their families often get a raw deal - there have been scandals about our troops being ill equipped on duty , badly cared for if they are injured and poorly housed at home . Now I discovered in today's Sunday Herald that the MOD includes travelling time from places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the calculation of soldiers' leave. So, exhausted troops, who may have faced...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Welcome to the 124th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (28th June – 4th July 2009), together with a hand-picked quintet, mostly courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. As ever, let’s start with the most popular post, and work [...]
Paula Keaveney - Lib Dem Campaigner (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
With a few other Councillors, I have a meeting on Friday with the Chief Executive of Liverpool Mutual Homes. This is the organisation that took over the remaining City Council properties in the stock transfer and so is responsible for maintenance etc of these homes. If you live in Cressington or near to Cressington, and have an issue you want me to raise, please let me know. If you issue is very private...
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Of all the stupid things that this Government has done, abolishing the 10p tax rate was up there with the worst of them. For a party that's supposed to champion the working class, introducing a measure that cost the poorest most was illogical and incomprehensible. It was a disgrace to see people who earned the minimum wage having £30 less in their pockets. Now the Government might be forced to...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
How on earth does he do it? Lembit Opik enjoys a night out with lingerie model Katie Green
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Lib Dem blogger Jonathan Fryer has the details (with apologies for LDV’s belatedness): The ALDE (Liberal) Group in the new European Parliament has chosen the Flemish Liberal and former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, to be its new leader. He takes over from the British (South West England) Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson, who has [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Vince Cable MP, Liberal Democrats Treasury spokesman Sunday Live, Sky News Speaking on Sky News this morning, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman Vince Cable said that an absolute pay freeze across the public sector would not be sensible because of contractual obligations, but he called for an end to bonuses in the public sector: “We have said there should be an absolute [...]
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