Lynne Featherstone and the Coalition

I listened to Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone on Friday gone, as she told the TUC’s LGBT conference that she fully supported them. This talk was followed by a Q&A session, cut very short because she had more important things to do.

The questioning, as you might expect, was slanted towards “why have the Liberals [...]

Meddling with YOUR BBC.

Well before the General Election, I gave some examples of how politicians were trying to fundamentally meddle with the BBC’s political independence.

I sat down to watch Question Time last night, and nearly spat my teeth out when Dimbleby announced that Cameron’s Government would only send a representative if Alistair Campbell was not on [...]

King's Cross Liberal Democrats Photography Competition 2010

The King’s Cross Liberal Democrats took this photograph of the skyline as you look west from the King’s Cross ward in London.

Photography: Kings Cross Liberal Democrats

The photograph is also unique because:

It was published by the King’s Cross Liberal Democrats, without permission. It bears no relevance to the subject it was [...]

Alan Johnson lost his Nutt

Home Secretary Alan Johnson certainly lost his cool when being interviewed on Sky yesterday. Finger pointing and everything! I would assume that the Home Secretary thought he was being clever, and pointing at the interviewer in an ‘oh, I’ll teach you a lesson’ kind of way.

He’s exacerbated, it’s been a long weekend for [...]

Was it the right choice for Camden?

I’ve been reading on the Camden Liberal Democrat’s website that they forged their partnership with the Conservatives of Camden because the voters ‘decisively rejected the Labour party’.

Statments like this, which lack any source or corroborative information always make me wonder, so I checked out the election results.

Labour lost 17 seats in the [...]