Brighton photo diary, Day 2
by Stephen Tall on September 18, 2007
There’s a slightly odd mood surrounding the conference. It’s a combination, I guess, of the ‘will he, won’t he’ general election speculation that Gordon Brown has allowed his spin-doctors to fuel, which inevitably makes for nervous excitement – only partly (…)
The Grauniad – pathetic, just pathetic
by Stephen Tall on September 18, 2007
I expect this kind of thing of downmarket right-wing tabloids like The Times. Naively I hold out slightly higher hopes for The Guardian. Alas. Yesterday, Ming conducted an hour-long Q&A with Sandi Toksvig – it went down well in the (…)
Conference update: LIT trumps LVT
by Stephen Tall on September 18, 2007
The Lib Dem conference has just this moment backed the abolition of the Council Tax by a local income tax, overwhelmingly rejecting an amendment in favour of land value tax. The unamended line of the motion reads: Lib Dems would (…)
