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Tory blogger Iain Dale should perhaps have paused before clicking ‘publish’ on his latest – highly inaccurate – post, How Very Illiberal of a LibDem Mayor. Those few seconds’ hesitation would have been sufficient for him to do a quick Google and find out what he was about to write was nonsense. In his article, Iain [...]

I mentioned last week that I was speaking at the Government 2010 conference as part of a panel discussion on ‘Blogging, Social Media and New Media’. 45 minutes might be enough time – at least if you believe Tony Blair – for the Iraqis to have launched weapons of mass destruction directed against the UK; but it was enough time  [ Read More ]

I’m speaking tomorrow, Thursday 22 October, at the Government 2010 conference as part of a panel discussion on ‘Blogging, Social Media and New Media’. It’s chaired by Iain Dale (who else?), and I’ll be on a panel alongside fellow bloggers, Mick Fealty and Craig Elder, as well as Adam Parker, CEO of Realwire. Iain has helpfully provided all the speakers  [ Read More ]

2 Big Stories Labour’s Hain threatens BBC with legal action over BNP invitation Labour’s Welsh secretary Peter Hain makes a bid for the media spotlight today by arguing that the BBC could face legal action over this Thursday’s edition of Question Time, due to feature an appearance by BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP: … in his letter [to [...]

It’s six weeks since Total Politics asked blog-readers to vote for their Top 10 favourite blogs in their annual survey promoted here on LDV, as well as at LabourList and Iain Dale’s Diary. More than 1,500 people voted, and here is the full list of the Top 75 Lib Dem blogs in the Total Politics list:

Yes, that’s right folks, you have until midnight this Friday to cast your votes in the Total Politics poll of Top 10 favourite blogs. This year, the poll is being co-promoted by Lib Dem Voice, LabourList and Iain Dale’s Diary. For full details and rules, please see our previous LDV posting. Then email your Top Ten Favourite Blogs to toptenblogs@totalpolitics.com

When Iain Dale asked if Lib Dem Voice would this year co-sponsor Total Politics’ Best Blog Poll 2009, he also set me some homework: to write c.1,000 words on ‘the State of the LibDem blogosphere’ by the end of the month? As you will see from the date, my deadline is fast approaching. I’ve got a few ideas of what  [ Read More ]

It’s that time of year again, when Total Politics asks blog-readers to vote for your Top 10 favourite blogs. This year the poll is being co-promoted/sponsored by Lib Dem Voice in conjunction with LabourList and Iain Dale’s Diary. The rules are simple. 1. You must vote for your ten favourite blogs and rank them from 1 (your favourite) to 10  [ Read More ]

April Pond has a moat! shouts the headline on Tory Iain Dale’s blog, as he tries (a little too desperately) to rattle Lib Dem cages with campaigning in the Norwich North by-election enters its final fortnight. Iain’s write-up is light-hearted enough, no doubt the better to distance himself from it with amused irony when the sheer hypocrisy of his posting  [ Read More ]

Those lovely people at Wikio have emailed The Voice with their list^ of the top blogs in the UK in June 2009. (Lib Dem blogger Jennie Rigg has already published the list of top 30 politics blogs: below is the full list for all blogs, though there’s considerable overlap between the two owing to the dominance of politics blogs in  [ Read More ]