Will Clegg let civil liberties go the same way as electoral reform?
Bradley Day, co-founder of the No Police Spies campaign group, urges the Liberal Democrats to re-connect with and stand up for their civil liberties principles.
Liberal Democrats
The American immigration debate – a chance for liberal reform, but not yet
An in-depth analysis of current European and American immigration policy under President Obama and what it can teach the UK, by ippr’s Matt Cavanagh.
Another Lords defeat bodes ill for Clegg’s constitutional reform agenda
Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg analyses the failings, both historic and current, of the Fixed Term Parliaments bill and asks what this means for future reform.
Alexander: Labour should see Lib Dems “as the hors d’œuvre not the main course”
Douglas Alexander, in an interview with Progress, warns Labour that the real task is not just to capitalise on the Lib Dems’ travails, but to beat the Tories.
A year on, what do Liberal Democrats make of the coalition?
Liberal Democrat party member, Dr Prateek Buch, gives his thoughts on a year in the coalition government and what the future holds for the party.
Vince Cable caught seeking to scupper UK’s climate efforts
Joss Garman looks at the rifts and suprising divisions in the coalition government over environmental issues.
Britain – sleepwalking to separation
The historic victory of the SNP at Holyrood places the UK’s very existence in grave peril writes Marcus Booth.
Vote 2011: Back to the mid-nineties for the Liberal Democrats
Mark Pack, co-editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, looks at the Lib Dems’ performance in last night’s local elections and contrasts it with the party’s showing in previous elections.
Vote 2011: Green campaign diary
Green Party councillor Rupert Read kicks off Left Foot Forward’s dispatches from the front: the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
The papers on AV: Optimistic, cynical, meditative, hysterical…
Dominic Browne gives a round-up of all the main papers’ opinions on the AV referendum, from the optimistic to the cynical, the meditative to the hysterical.