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Your essential weekend reader — my personal pick of the week’s must-reads
by Stephen Tall on April 14, 2013
It’s Sunday morning, so here are a dozen of thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices, culled from all those I’ve linked to this past fortnight. You can follow me on Delicious here. Immigration and the knowledge economy – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg makes the business case for immigration reform in the US, but the lesson [...]
Bloggers unite to oppose “botched late-night drafting” that proposes new press/web regulation
by Stephen Tall on March 24, 2013
I’m one of 17 signatories (on behalf of LibDemVoice) to a letter published in Saturday’s Guardian, reproduced below, which opposes the “fundamental threat” of the draft legislation approved this week by MPs of all parties which would regulate blogs and other small independent news websites. It’s not often you’ll see us, ConservativeHome, LabourList, Guido Fawkes, [...]
Your essential weekend reader — 12 must-read articles you may have missed
by Stephen Tall on December 22, 2012
It’s Saturday evening, so here are twelve thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices culled from the 50+ I’ve linked to this last week. You can follow me on Delicious here. Kings, queens and the political chess match – Sue Cameron ponders what the invitation to HM The Queen to attend cabinet this week could [...]
Y’know those stories about the death of the Lib Dems? Turns out, they might’ve been exaggerated…
by Stephen Tall on December 14, 2012
As Samuel Ellis Rees points out today: Of the last 20 Council by-elections to take place, the Lib Dems have won 11 of them. 8 of which were gains from another party. Not too bad. — SamuelEllis Rees (@SamuelEllisRees) December 14, 2012 And as I noted last week, after the Lib Dems had gained four [...]
Leveson, the morning after the Report before: what Lib Dem bloggers say
by Stephen Tall on November 30, 2012
Caron Lindsay blogged about Nick Clegg’s Commons statement here on LibDemVoice: Nick Clegg: We won’t find better solution than Leveson’s. Here’s a quick round-up of other reaction so far from Lib Dem bloggers to Lord Justice Leveson’s report on media standards… Contributors split on broadly pro/anti-Leveson Report lines. Let’s start with the pro-Leveson bloggers: Shock [...]
Speaking against secret courts – and in praise of Lord Strasburger
by Stephen Tall on November 29, 2012
I was a guest this week on Voice of Russia radio to discuss the issue of secret courts. (Like almost all Lib Dems, I’m opposed to them.) You can hear the discussion here: The British Government wants to introduce Closed (…)
Your essential weekend reader — 12 must-read articles you may have missed
by Stephen Tall on November 24, 2012
It’s Saturday morning, so here are twelve thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices… The lottery of life: Where to be born in 2013 – The Economist‘s annual list of the top quality-of-life countries: ‘Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions [...]
My conversation with Eliane Glaser at the RSA on de-spinning party conferences
by Stephen Tall on November 6, 2012
I recently chaired an event at the RSA, How to De-Spin a Party Conference, with Eliane Glaser — whose book Get Real I reviewed here yesterday. I interviewed Eliane following her talk – you can hear our 12 minute conversation (…)
Your essential weekend reader — 8 must-read articles you may have missed
by Stephen Tall on October 27, 2012
It’s Saturday morning, so here are eight thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices… Why don’t we trust politicians? – The BBC’s Nick Robinson takes politicians to task, doesn’t let the media off the hook either… while Labour’s Rachel Reeves mouths platitudes. The BBC regains its honour – Nick Cohen links the Beeb’s problems with [...]
Your essential weekend reader — 8 must-read articles you may have missed
by Stephen Tall on October 20, 2012
It’s Saturday morning, so here are eight thought-provoking articles to stimulate your thinking juices… Three big things I’ve got wrong since I’ve starting blogging and commenting – ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie confesses to a trio of big errors on the NHS, higher-rate tax and equalities: “One of the many reasons I don’t want to be an [...]
