The Tories and the media have missed the big story about Cities Unlimited, the Policy Exchange report on regional development policies. (You can download a PDF copy of it from the think tank's website.) As James Graham pointed out this morning, the report's lead author Tim Leunig is a Liberal Democrat. Indeed, during my days on the party's federal policy committee he was something o...
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LiberalEngland on 13th Aug 2008 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
Just before Lib Dem Voice went down for a little while as part of an upgrade, James Graham wrote a piece about David Omand's report on the necessity of big databases to protect us all.The report itself is pretty alarming, and as a member of Unlock Democracy and a Liberal Democrat, I thought that it was entirely appropriate to tip ordure on the report itself. And, if James had done so, I suspect
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LiberalBureaucracy on 1st Mar 2009 (via liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com)
On Comment is Free, James Graham asks: Have the Liberal Democrats been taken over by the Flat Earth Society? To find his answer read here.
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 10th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The LibDems have sent out this press release: Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has challenged the think-tank Policy Exchange over its briefing against a family event aimed at promoting harmony and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. A briefing note circulated by Policy Exchange links speakers at the Global Peace and Unity 2008 event on Sunday to Islamic
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PickledPolitics on 24th Oct 2008 (via pickledpolitics.com)
James Graham and I have both been interviewed recently by Mars Hill. This is me: Among Liberal Democrats I admire James Graham’s Quaequam Blog! for his aggression on behalf of what can be a very herbivorous party even when I do not agree with his views.And here is James: Jonathan Calder's blog is both eclectic and idiosyncratic, both of which are good things in my book.
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LiberalEngland on 21st Feb 2009 (via liberalengland.blogspot.com)
James Graham: Before discussing a reshuffle on a public plane, perhaps the Lib Dem leader should have assessed his own frontbench performance
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Guardian on 1st Dec 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Anthony Browne, the director of Policy Exchange, is going to work for Boris Johnson as the Mayor's policy director. This means that the job of running the most influential think tank on the centre-right is now up for grabs. Given Policy Exchange's influence on the Tory leadership—James O'Shaughnessy went from being head of research at Policy Exchange to being head of policy for the Tories, a...
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Spectator on 21st Jul 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has challenged the think-tank Policy Exchange over its briefing against a family event aimed at promoting harmony and dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. A briefing note circulated by Policy Exchange links speakers at the Global Peace and Unity 2008 event on Sunday to Islamic extremism. It includes ‘evidence' quoted from the Society for Amer...
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LibDems on 27th Oct 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
James Graham: The credit crunch renders talk of tax cuts redundant. To recover in the polls, the Liberal Democrats must rediscover social justice
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Guardian on 22nd Oct 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Of course, we now have two British Liberal leaders, one here, and one in Europe. And, for your delectation and delight, Liberal Democrat Voice presents, courtesy of the European Liberal Democrats (ELDR), the New Year message of Graham Watson, recently elected as its President…
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 27th Dec 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
James Graham, Lib Dem blogger and frequent contributor to the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, has a must-read piece today, titled ‘Not dead but…’. James co-founded the Lib Dems’ Social Liberal Forum, and has in the past advocated closer relations between the party and Labour as a progressive force to take on the Conservatives. He
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 19th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)