Foster brands BBC "disgraceful" for refusal to air charity appeal for Gaza
The BBC reports on the latest developments in the ongoing row over the Corporation’s decision not to screen an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee for Gaza because it does not want to...
View ArticleLib Dems reveal one playing field sold off every day last year
Ahh, the wonders of government spin… here’s a BBC report from yesterday: The Government is claiming greater success in its efforts to protect playing fields from developers. The latest figures show...
View ArticleShould BBC licence fee-payers foot £150k 'Sachsgate' fine?
No, says Don Foster, the Lib Dems’ shadow culture, media and sports secretary, following media regulator Ofcom’s announcement on Friday that it was fining the BBC £150,000 following the infamous prank...
View ArticleFilm censorship "in chaos", says Foster
As the BBC reports: Retailers who sell violent video games and 18-rated DVDs to children cannot be prosecuted because of a legal blunder 25 years ago. Dozens of prosecutions under a 1984 Act have been...
View ArticleOh God … It’s Don’s “there’s too many repeats on telly” rant again
In what has become a tradition almost as eagerly anticipated as the Queen’s Speech, Lib Dem shadow culture secretary Don Foster has unleashed his annual broadside against telly bosses for broadcasting...
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News in Brief: Ming savages Danny, ‘Parenting Matters’, and Don Foster on...
Former party leader Ming Campbell is apparently furious with fellow Scottish Lib Dem, Danny Alexander, according to the Telegraph. The two MPs are, it appears, at each others’ metaphorical throats over...
View ArticleLDVideo | Election archive special… 1992
Last weekend — in a desperate attempt to offer our readers an alternative to The X-Factor — we highlighted some clips from elections of yesteryear: first, the 1960-70s, then the 1980s. Today, we’re...
View ArticleLDVideo: Remembering the 1992 general election, 20 years ago today
Thursday, 9th April, 1992 — the first election for the newly-formed Liberal Democrats, and the last election when the Tories won a parliamentary majority. Here’s a video trip down memory lane… Andrew...
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Reshuffle redux: how Lib Dem members rated the ministerial performances of...
I posted earlier the most recent ratings by Lib Dem members of the party’s government ministers. Here’s how those affected by the reshuffle have done over the three-plus years we’ve been running our...
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Lib Dem Chief Whip on David Ward: “I do not intend to take further action in...
Three weeks ago, Lib Dem MP for Bradford East David Ward tweeted: “The big question is – if I lived in #Gaza would I fire a rocket? – probably yes”. The following day he issued an apology, saying: I...
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