So a woman porn director wants to be an MP? Good for her. I’m sure the voters will be much more sensible about it than the political classes. She seems like someone with a real belief in personal freedom and choice rather than some sorry mens mag sleazoid, like, well, the owner of the Daily Express.

A spin doctor was paid £800 a day to defend the disgraced council that failed to stop seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq being starved to death, says the Daily Mail. Terry Brownbill is said to have earned £113,000 for 141 days' work. As well as the morality, there are questions over whether Birmingham Council's procedures for approving the contract were followed. A Freedom of Informa...

Stephan Shakespeare is Chairman of the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age. Today at a gathering of the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data'....

Bridget Fox (PPC Islington South & Finsbury), Julian Huppert (PPC Cambridge) and filmmaker Obhi Chatterjee write: Several of us have submitted an emergency motion on Freedom, creativity & the internet for the Spring Conference. It concerns an issue which affects the daily lives of almost everyone on which the party appears to have no defined or

Plans to force internet providers to block sites carrying pirated music and films 'threaten freedom of speech and the open internet', says internet and telecom companies

THE SNP has appealed to the UK Information Commissioner over the BBC's refusal to release details of talks held with the three major UK parties on the leaders debate.

Welcome to this latest LDVideo instalment, this week highlighting three political video clips in tribute to former Labour leader Michael Foot, who died this week, aged 96. First up, let’s see him as a young editor of the Evening Standard sticking up for freedom of the press after the Daily Mirror was censored by the Churchill

Here’s how the BBC reports Nick Clegg’s speech today to the Association of School and College Leaders conference: Head teachers have been asked to “raise their game” as part of a £2.5bn funding deal proposed by the Liberal Democrats. Party leader Nick Clegg called on schools to reinvent the curriculum, raise results and close the attainment

One of the more appealing characteristics and strengths of the Liberal Democrats is the room there is within the party for genuine debate, and the freedom members have to hold views which differ from those of the leadership. There are of course certain principles which all who hold the Liberal banner aloft share however; principles around

Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch politician, has used a visit to London to launch an attack on Islam.