Category: Short Announcement

  • Thanks to Jonathan Calder for compiling a mammoth Carnival this week. Next week: Amused Cynicism. Don’t forget to be nice to the compiler by submitting your nominations for inclusion using this form.

  • This is now live, courtesy of the Wardman Wire. I will be compiling the pre-Convention edition next week, over on Liberal Conspiracy. If you would like to host the Carnival for an edition after the Convention, email me at modernliberty@quaequamblog.net. I am, I have to confess, looking out especially for non-Lib Dems.

  • Firstly, I just thought I would direct people to my piece defending the Convention on Modern Liberty and its “outrageous” decision to be cross-party. It has had an interestingly muted response. The most fascinating one was from Sadie Smith whose paraphrase of my article was that I defined anyone who is boycotting the Convention “because…

  • The first Social Liberal Forum project (technically the second one, as I will explain later) has now wheeled into view: The Ideas Factory. We want your ideas for what should be in the Lib Dem manifesto. Your idea will be critiqued by our dragons advisory board and opened to further debate. Visitors to the SLF…

  • Jennie Rigg wrings every last drop of metaphorical goodness out of the Carnival theme in this week’s edition. Enjoy! Same time next week, head over to The Wardman Wire.