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  • My questions for Lembit…

    …can be found on Comment is Free: These questions, for the Lib Dems at least, are important. The party president is not a figurehead but an executive role. I happen to think that the more focused Lembit who ran a highly organised campaign four years ago would have done a much better job than Simon…

  • Tim Leunig: “unworkable, unreasonable and perhaps plain barmy”? (UPDATE)

    The Guardian is getting itself into a lather attacking the “Tories’ favourite thinktank” for suggesting that Northern towns are failures. What they don’t report is that the pamphlet in question is co-written by the Lib Dems’ own Tim Leunig. The summary of the pamphlet does indeed sound quite provocative. The idea that people should simply…

  • Comment is Bonkers

    I’ve written another piece for Comment is Free today, voicing concerns about Nick Clegg’s centralising tendencies: I am reminded by the party’s stance on Iraq, and how it came about. Will Clegg’s COG enable the grassroots to drag the party leadership, kicking and screaming if need be, to where it needs to be, or is…

  • The Grimond-Obama link

    An interesting link made by Martin “son of Richard” Wainwright between the current Obama bandwagon and the Red Guard of the 60s: Jo Grimond in particular enjoyed intellectual experiments and didn’t mind the excesses of youth. He sent Young Libs out all over the world to report back to him on Yugoslavian workers’ cooperatives, black…

  • Party funding on OK

    I’ve written a piece on Our Kingdom about the government’s meaningless new party funding proposals: Hencke asserts that “The Conservatives have been blocked from targeting Labour marginals with spending that can run to tens of thousands of pounds a year by legislation which will limit all parties’ candidates to spending a maximum of £12,000 from…