A changing of the guard at Federal Conference Committee
Geoff Payne has been elected as the new Chair of Federal Conference Committee (FCC). Geoff served as Vice-Chair of the committee for eight years and was responsible for chairs’ training, access...
View ArticleInterception Modernisation Programme: no, it’s not coming back
There’s been quite a lot online and in some traditional media in the last few days about how the government is supposedly resurrecting Labour’s plans for online snooping (the cuddly sounding...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat responses to anti-terrorism legislation review
Here’s a round-up of responses from Liberal Democrat figures and blogs: Tom Brake MP (Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs and Justice) Sanity and justice have been...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat conference and security checks #ldconf
The rolling saga that is security checks for people attending Liberal Democrat conference has generated a lot of heat, some light – and a fair degree of confusion. So this post is my attempt to...
View ArticleLibDem conference accreditation: what others have been saying
Despite its length, my blog post over the weekend about the security checks being carried out for Liberal Democrat conference, didn’t go through all the issues in equal detail. So here to make up for...
View ArticleThe best speeches of Liberal Democrat Conference
I thought it would be good to remember some of the best speeches of this year’s Autumn conference. I wrote down a list of 7 that I thought were fantastic and then decided to ask Twitter. The list that...
View ArticleMarking the Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20th each year is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s the day when we honour those who have lost their lives through transphobic violence. The list of those who have been murdered for...
View ArticleAutumn Conference again cut to four days
If you are booking your accommodation for Federal Conference in Bournemouth, there is some news from the Federal Conference Committee that you should be aware of. Its vice-chair, Zoe O’Connell, tweeted...
View ArticleSome familiar faces amongst the LGBT icons
ITV has produced a list of ten LGBT icons in the East of England. There are some familiar faces in there. Zoe O’Connell Championing transgender and LGBT issues across Cambridgeshire is Zoe O’Connell’s...
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