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Alan Beith’s Gladstone Lecture - and specifically his comments that church disestablishment is “not necessary” - attracted much comment earlier this week on LDV. Here Jon Hunt reflects on this and much else… The grand old man of Liberalism was given his due respect last month. The phrase is generally applied to Gladstone but could almost be [...]
The Religious Intelligence website has the story: A DISESTABLISHED Church is not part of a truly liberal society, the British MP Sir Alan Beith has said. Speaking at the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum’s inaugural Gladstone Lecture [entitled Faith, Passion and Politics], Sir Alan told members of the Liberal Democrat party that “disestablishment is not a necessary feature [...]
Kind thanks to these people : Dr. Kim Howells MP Rt Hon Michael Ancram QCDL MP Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP Mr Ben Chapman MP Rt. Hon. Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Rt Hon George Howarth MP Rt Hon Michael Mates MP Mr Richard Ottaway MP Ms Dari Taylor MP Why should we thank them? Because they have provided proof , if it were needed, that none of the Lib Lab Con parties give a flying fuck for the rights of the...
November’s Total Politics magazine features a profile of Alan Beith MP (occassioned by the publication of his memoirs, A View from the North) and also an article from Euro-MP Sharon Bowles about her musical hobby.
Alan Beith is Lib Dem MP for Berwick-Upon-Tweed. Sadly, he doesn't have Berwick's or England's best interests at heart. “I don’t see what an English Parliament would offer Berwick and the people of the north. We would still be in the minority with no more power to make decisions which affect the area. It’s hard to see how Berwick would benefit”. Having proper national representation so that MPs from...
Sir Alan Beith, the longest-serving Liberal Democrat MP, is to launch his autobiography Alan Beith: A View from the North at this autumn’s party conference in Bournemouth. We’re promised that the book will include the Lib-Lab pact of the late 1970s, Paddy Ashdown’s years at the head of the party, and Sir Alan’s work overseeing the [...]
Hearty congratulations to the former Mr Beith: Senior Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith has spoken of his delight at becoming a Knight. The long-serving Berwick-upon-Tweed MP becomes Sir Alan in recognition of his services to Parliament. A former deputy leader of the Lib Dems and its predecessor, the Liberal Party, Sir Alan, 65, was first elected to represent [...]
And not before time. From the Press Association : Senior Liberal Democrats MP Alan Beith has spoken of his delight at becoming a Knight. The long-serving Berwick-upon-Tweed MP becomes Sir Alan in recognition of his services to Parliament. A former deputy leader of the Lib Dems and its predecessor, the Liberal Party, Sir Alan, 65, was first elected to represent the Northumberland constituency in a by-election...
We’re very grateful to the caller who phoned on Saturday to inform us about Alan Beith’s impending milestone and celebratory ball. Apart from that only one other person has phoned the podcast hotline 020 7617 7221 and left us a message. I know that it's a pranking LDV staffer, even though it sounds like an elderly confused [...]
Hooray! Someone has phoned the Podcast Hotline 020 7617 7221. Alright, so it's a blatant plug for an event later in the year, but I have no objection to testing the technology this way.
The Lib Dems have dropped us a line to say the contract for providing the Lib Dem's printing and merchandising requirements is up for tender, as it is every four years. If you think you've got what it takes to produce Alan Beith mugs, sticky labels, headed notepaper, rosettes, banners, flags and the like, as well [...]
Recent news from the Christian Institute (14 December 2007) Alan Beith and five other MPs have tabled a free speech amendment.A cross-party group of MPs has tabled a free speech amendment to the proposed incitement to ‘homophobic hatred’ law.The amendment has been signed by MPs Jim Dobbin, Ann Widdecombe, Alan Beith, David Taylor, Philip Hollobone and [...]
