YouTube ‘cos we want to: an SDP special
If the SDP had lived on*, 2009 would have marked its 18th** 28th birthday – which spurious segue is all the excuse we need to dust off three video clips tracing its rise and fall. Let’s begin at the...
View ArticleAspiring Independent candidate in Chingford changes his name to “None Of The...
From the Waltham Forest Guardian: An aspiring MP has gone to extreme lengths to protest against the three main political parties. Adam Osen, 50, has officially changed his name to None Of The Above and...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 26 March 2010
Time flies – Friday already! And is it really 29 years to the day that the Gang of Four launched a new political party: the Social Democrats? Roy Jenkins said at the launch: We want to get away from...
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Forgotten Liberal heroes: Nancy Seear
Listen to Liberal Democrats make speeches and there are frequent references to historical figures, but drawn from a small cast. Just the quartet of John Stuart Mill, William Gladstone, David Lloyd...
View ArticleWho are the greatest Liberal Prime Ministers who never were?
Mark Pack reviewed Francis Beckett’s new counterfactual collection, The Prime Ministers Who Never Were, on the Voice earlier this week — 14 ‘Big Beasts’ who, had the chips fallen differently, might...
View ArticleLDVideo | Election archive special… the 1980s
Yesterday was the 1960-70s, today we fast-forward to the 1980s… 1982 Liberal Party political broadcast (Available on YouTube here.) 1983 election: Party leaders on the campaign trail (incuding Roy...
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33 years ago today the launch of the SDP was announced
The Guardian has delved into its archives to bring us the announcement, on 18th March 1981, about the launch of the Social Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party is to launch itself to the end...
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David Rendel 1949-2016
As we reported earlier, former Liberal Democrat MP David Rendel has died aged 67. David was born in 1949 in Athens, Greece. His father was a foreign correspondent for The Times, and he was a...
View ArticleThe legacy of Roy Jenkins: History Group discussion meeting Monday 27th June
Embed from Getty Images One of the very slight crumbs of comfort to be found in the referendum campaign was the way in which, in some parts of the country, members of the Liberal Democrats, Labour...
View ArticleIn pictures: Leaders from the archives
Just delving about in the Getty Images archive, I happened upon these great images of our current leader and some of our past leaders*. Please click on the images to read the captions. * includes...
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Roy was right – and so was Nick
Nick Clegg’s excellent book, “Politics: Between the Extremes”, released in September, provides a useful perspective on the new parameters which seem to define British politics. As became clear in 2016,...
View ArticleYouTube ‘cos we want to: an SDP special
If the SDP had lived on*, 2009 would have marked its 18th** 28th birthday – which spurious segue is all the excuse we need to dust off three video clips tracing its rise and fall. Let’s begin at the...
View ArticleAspiring Independent candidate in Chingford changes his name to “None Of The...
From the Waltham Forest Guardian: An aspiring MP has gone to extreme lengths to protest against the three main political parties. Adam Osen, 50, has officially changed his name to None Of The Above and...
View ArticleDaily View 2×2: 26 March 2010
Time flies – Friday already! And is it really 29 years to the day that the Gang of Four launched a new political party: the Social Democrats? Roy Jenkins said at the launch: We want to get away from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Forgotten Liberal heroes: Nancy Seear
Listen to Liberal Democrats make speeches and there are frequent references to historical figures, but drawn from a small cast. Just the quartet of John Stuart Mill, William Gladstone, David Lloyd...
View ArticleWho are the greatest Liberal Prime Ministers who never were?
Mark Pack reviewed Francis Beckett’s new counterfactual collection, The Prime Ministers Who Never Were, on the Voice earlier this week — 14 ‘Big Beasts’ who, had the chips fallen differently, might...
View ArticleLDVideo | Election archive special… the 1980s
Yesterday was the 1960-70s, today we fast-forward to the 1980s… 1982 Liberal Party political broadcast (Available on YouTube here.) 1983 election: Party leaders on the campaign trail (incuding Roy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
33 years ago today the launch of the SDP was announced
The Guardian has delved into its archives to bring us the announcement, on 18th March 1981, about the launch of the Social Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party is to launch itself to the end...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Rendel 1949-2016
As we reported earlier, former Liberal Democrat MP David Rendel has died aged 67. David was born in 1949 in Athens, Greece. His father was a foreign correspondent for The Times, and he was a...
View ArticleThe legacy of Roy Jenkins: History Group discussion meeting Monday 27th June
Embed from Getty Images One of the very slight crumbs of comfort to be found in the referendum campaign was the way in which, in some parts of the country, members of the Liberal Democrats, Labour...
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