A trio of resources for your weekend’s delectation: Electoral timetable for May’s elections: I’ve recently updated my May 2012 election timetable post with extra details Liberal Democrat peers on Twitter: having commented adversely in the past on the lack of communications from many of them, I’ve been hunting out how many are using Twitter. You

Four years on, I’m still a Daily Mail reader (even if they think I’m a foreigner). Here’s an updated explanation. I once rang the Daily Mail to mildly complain about a story I had a connection with. The journalist I spoke to put me on hold while he conferred with a colleague. At least, he thought he

The Liberal Democrat Voice team have received a press release from John Pugh MP, which may be of interest to those in the Party keen to engage in debate on policy and philosophy. With an eye to the new parliamentary year and forthcoming legislation, the Beveridge Group has reformed and a new updated website is

UK government issues an updated letter to meet union objections of an implied limit on employer’s contributions

The UK can now claim to be No.1 in Europe… for inflation. Further to Tuesday's figures, the EU has now updated its own spreadsheet. And this is what it shows: We've been hovering around the top for a year or so, but now we've finally touched the summit. Let's see if we start to plummet down again, as the Bank of England predicts.

CNN has updated the image in their Iranian Navy story, but before they added the video of Barbara Starr this picture was what led the article. I didn't notice it at the time, but do you notice anything strange going on in this photo? This is the caption provided by Getty. Iranian clerics standing in front of the 'Jamaran', Iran's first domestically built warship, during naval m...

Jon Ball has just updated live from the Lib Dems’ Federal Conference Committee with the latest on the party’s conference accreditation which has provoked such internal controversy in recent weeks: Lib Dem conference accreditation update from FCC. 5,617 people have been approved. 138 applications are in progress. There are issues with 150 applications in various

“More than 400,000 people have been out of work for more than two years, according to analysis of the latest Government data by think tank IPPR.” So runs its press release today, trailed in the Sunday press and the wires. I hope the IPPR didn’t spend too much of their donors’ money on this research, as the figure is updated quarterly and freely available from the DWP websit...

Welcome to BUCF’s new-look blog and website! It won’t have passed you by this morning that bucf.wordpress.com is now sporting a revised and updated layout and format, and now seems a good time to let you in on what the committee have got in mind for BUCF’s online services in the coming year. Lots has

The 1911 Official Secrets Act has been updated, but Whitehall still fears open government, say Peter Hennessy and Rob Shepherd.