The Liberal Dissenter reminds me of a Mark Oaten quote in 2001: According to Oaten, the Lib Dems lack the symbolic dragons that Labour leaders have in the past found useful to slay… “We haven’t got a Clause Four, Militants or rot at the core of the party,” he says. “Oddly enough, if we did… Continue reading Militant tendency
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Telling stories
I’ve more or less given up on my attempt to blog the Meeting the Challenge paper – I found it too rigid a structure around which to frame my thoughts. But I did get stirred up by the plenary session at yesterday’s conference about narrative (more about which you can read here). In short, I… Continue reading Telling stories
How to spot when a journalist doesn’t know what he’s talking about
Shock! Horror! Could this be true? But it was Mark Oaten who made arguably the greatest impact with an appeal to rank-and-file party members dismayed at the treatment of Mr Kennedy. The home affairs spokesman said MPs had “let down” ordinary Liberal Democrats and should apologise for their show of disunity. Strange, that was the… Continue reading How to spot when a journalist doesn’t know what he’s talking about