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Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past few days… Confectionery giants ‘not doing enough’ to reduce Easter egg packaging (Daily Mail) Easter egg manufacturers have been criticised for not doing enough to reduce packaging and improve how much can be recycled. Currently, an estimated 3,000 tonnes [...]

The Independent carried a mischievously misleading front page report last week, hyperbolically headlined ‘Lib Dems rocked by anti-Clegg rebellion’ — their attempt to stir in the wake of the founding of the anti-Coalition Liberal Left group. Here’s the letter my LibDemVoice co-editor Mark Pack and I wrote in reponse: (Picture courtesy Mark’s site, as I don’t buy the Indy… even  [ Read More ]

Over at LibDemVoice, Mark Pack and I debate how Lib Dem party higher education policy can move forward now £9k tuition fees are a reality. You can find the original piece, with comments thread, here. Below is the blatantly copy ‘n pasted version… In the week of the publication of university application figures, LibDemVoice co-editors Mark Pack and Stephen Tall  [ Read More ]

Our latest Lib Dem Voice members’ survey (the final results from which will be published this weekend) has generated ample coverage in today’s Independent — including this rather splendid graphic showing who you chose as the top/bottom 5 performing Lib Dems: Here’s some of what the paper wrote about the findings (and, don’t forget, you [...]

Nick Clegg submitted himself to the new year delights of the primetime 8.10am Today Programme interview on Thursday. Here’s a round-up of what he said and the reactions to it… Nick Clegg has kicked off his new year promising more action to curb executive bonuses, amid continued questions over his leadership. … The deputy prime [...]

My Voice colleague Helen Duffett has already published the final round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere of 2011 here. Our Golden Dozen deliberately eschews posts published on this site: its aim is to share the link-love around. But for those who are interested — not least the Voice Collective — here are the most-read posts [...]

The shockwaves from David Cameron’s decision to reject the proposed ‘Merkozy’ EU treaty is still shaking politics. The UK stands isolated from the other 26 member states. Tory Eurosceptics and, early polls suggest, a majority of the British public think the Prime Minister has played a blinder, ‘sticking up for Britain’. This is difficult territory [...]

What presents are you looking forward to giving or receiving this year? That’s the question LDV posed to a group of Lib Dem bloggers. All this week we’re revealing what they told us, with link-throughs to Amazon for your shopping convenience (and ‘cos the referral fees help support LibDemVoice: so get clicking and ordering). Part [...]

There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader… Here’s rising star Dr Julian Huppert, Lib Dem MP for Cambridge, flanked by Reading councillor Daisy Benson and LibDemVoice’s own Mark Pack at a conference fringe event. What do you think they might be saying or thinking? [...]

The last 24 hours’ political news has been dominated by the Boundary Commission for England’s proposals for new parliamentary constituencies — and in particular the reduction from 533 to 502 in accordance with the Coalition Agreement to reduce the size of the House of Commons. I’m a self-confessed politics geek, so I find this stuff [...]