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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>LibDemBlogs</title> <link>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk</link> <description>Aggregated Stories from LibDem Blogs</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Copyright: (C) www.libdemblogs.co.uk</copyright> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:31:02 GMT</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <generator>Artesea RSS Creator</generator> <image> <url>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk/images/blog.png</url> <title>LibDemBlogs</title> <link>http://www.libdemblogs.co.uk</link> </image> <item> <title><![CDATA[You can like, work with, and respect a person with different political beliefs than your own]]></title> <link>https://richardkemp.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/you-can-like-work-with-and-respect-a-person-with-different-political-beliefs-than-your-own/</link> <description><![CDATA[I have just got back from an incredible event in Liverpool. It wasn't an official event organised by the council or LFC or a company or organisation. It was an event organised by his family and details circulated to friends to commemorate the life of George Knibb. Most people who read this will have no idea who George Knibb was. He was a political opponent of mine. He was a conviction politician to the left of the Labour Party who was connected all those 40+ years ago with Militant. Having got on the Council for Labour after the Militant expulsions ...]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:13:47 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Child prodigies: A column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/10/child-prodigies-column-for-journal-of.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Here's another of the discursive Sighcology columns I write for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. Chess, cricket, Steve Winwood... it covers several topics dear to this blog's heart. You can see Aksel Rykkvin as a treble above and as a baritone below. Prodigious talent Prodigies aren't always popular with their elders. When Sir Martin Shee, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts, encountered the nine-year-old John Everett Millais in 1838, he suggested the boy should be sweeping chimneys rather than seeking to train as an artist. And sometimes prodigious genius is misunderstood. At a very young ...]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Black History Month: Birth of the House Nation]]></title> <link>https://returnoftheliberal.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/black-history-month-birth-of-the-house-nation/</link> <description><![CDATA[Many of you reading this will know that African Americans have been making a huge contribution to popular music since the advent of Jazz in the 1880s. For this blog I'm going to fast forward 100 years because the 1980s arguably represents the pinnacle of black American music innovation. Six genres were pioneered by African Americans during this decade - Hip Hop, Electro, Chicago House, Acid House, Detroit Techno and New Jack Swing. Some of these were embraced in the UK and had a lasting impact, especially house and techno, some are now a footnote - New Jack Swing didn't ...]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:01:24 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[We still need to adopt a Jenkinsite approach to support trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people.]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/we-still-need-to-adopt-a-jenkinsite-approach-to-support-trans-nonbinary-and-gender-nonconforming-people-78611.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Back in 2022, I wrote my first piece for Lib Dem Voice, titled "We must adopt a Jenkinsite approach to support trans people". As part of the piece, I discussed Roy Jenkins' achievements as Home Secretary under Harold Wilson, from abolishing theatre censorship and legalising abortion, to decriminalising homosexuality and banning racial discrimination in the workplace. I also discussed the ideology Jenkins brought to the role of Home Secretary: social libertarianism (the idea that if you are not breaking the law or causing harm to others or yourself, then the government should leave you alone). Unfortunately, the argument I made ...]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:55:56 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Getting things done - Morven Terrace #dundeewestend]]></title> <link>http://www.dundeewestend.com/2025/10/getting-things-done-morven-terrace.html</link> <description><![CDATA[At the request of residents, we requested graffiti removal from utility boxes at the entrance to Morven Terrace - see photo below :]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Major tells Tories they are on the wrong side of history]]></title> <link>http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/10/major-tells-tories-they-are-on-wrong.html</link> <description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that John Major has told the Conservatives that forming an alliance with Reform UK would "for ever destroy" the party, which he said had already left traditional supporters "politically homeless" by lurching too far to the right. The paper says that Major warned that despite the existential threat posed by Reform's surge in popularity, far more than the future of the Tory party was at stake with autocracies on the march across the world: "Frustration with democracy should not blind us to the toxic nature of nationalism, or any and every form of populist or authoritarian government," ...]]></description> <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Planning the switch on]]></title> <link>http://jonathanwallace.blogspot.com/2025/10/planning-switch-on.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Last night, my two ward colleagues - Jonathan Mohammed and Marilynn Ord - and I met up with Planting Up Sunniside in Sunniside Club to sort out some of the details of the Christmas tree switch on event on 26th November. The switch-on will be on 26th November on the grassed area opposite Sun Hill. at about 5pm. More details to follow.]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Prunella Scales in Hobson's Choice (1952)]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/10/prunella-scales-in-hobsons-choice-1952.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Prunella Scales died yesterday at the age of 93. We all remember her as Sybil Fawlty, and in his DVD commentaries on the series, John Cleese (who was 86 today) recalls that she brought much to the role that he and Connie Booth had not imagined. Fawlty Towers was the better for it. But there was more to Prunella Scales than Fawlty Towers. She was Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution and played Queen Victoria in a one-woman show for many years. There were other successful television sitcoms and a surprising number of films. The second of ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[The Joy of Six 1427]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-joy-of-six-1427.html</link> <description><![CDATA["For 25 years, governments have been promoting executive elected mayors in English local government, an enthusiasm fully endorsed by the current government in a white paper in 2024 and bill in 2025. Existing legislation allows central government to transfer to these mayors all the functions of local councils, subject only to scrutiny arrangements which involve no more than a power to ask the mayor politely to think again. It empowers central government to turn all elected councils into functionless talking shops, and to create mayors who are local kings."David Howarth takes aim at Labour's demolition of local government. Alison Bennett ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Have we forgotten what we stand for?]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forgotten-what-we-stand-for-78609.html</link> <description><![CDATA[I joined the Liberal Democrats six years ago. I was 16, I'd just finished my GCSEs and I wanted to make a difference. I believe in Liberalism, and the party's preamble spoke to me. After all, who wouldn't want a free, fair and open society? Well, as it would seem, quite a lot of people. But nevertheless, I campaigned in elections during 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 3 times in 2024 and again in 2025 and I'll continue in 2026 for my local election campaign. We lost most of those elections. All 5 of the ones I stood in we lost, ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Fighting for Britain's soul and bursting the Westminster bubble]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/victoria-collins-mp-writesfighting-for-britains-soul-and-bursting-the-westminster-bubble-78608.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Take a moment and imagine at the next General Election, the closing polls come in. That ping comes through on your phone, the announcement comes up on the TV, the person next to you turns and says "Reform is winning....the exit polls look like tomorrow we'll have Nigel Farage as our Prime Minister...". Then, over the next few years a Reform government takes away the rights and freedoms of millions up and down our country in a toxic wave of populism. We know sadly the polls show this is very possible but we know it's not inevitable. This is the ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Important party elections, next steps on PR and growing our local government base (LDN#202)]]></title> <link>https://www.markpack.org.uk/175822/important-party-elections-next-steps-on-pr-and-growing-our-local-government-base-ldn202/</link> <description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat Newswire #202 is a bumper edition including news about the important internal party elections for which ballots are going out today (Tuesday). If you'd like to get future editions emailed direct to you as soon as they are published, just sign up now: Welcome to Lib Dem Newswire #202, a bumper edition including party election news, the latest on campaigning for electoral reform, analysis of how the Lib Dem local government base has grown and much more. Details are also included of continuing Lib Dem local government gains – a marked contrast from Labour, Conservatives and even the ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:14:46 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Trans and non-binary Liberal Democrats - I stand right with you]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/trans-and-nonbinary-liberal-democrats-i-stand-right-with-you-78606.html</link> <description><![CDATA[So many of us in LGBT+ community – and countless allies, too – feared that the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year would challenge the dignity and identity of trans and non-binary people across our country. Shortly after the ruling, I insisted on meeting the Supreme Court Justices following the judgement and made it clear to them just how much trauma, pain and uncertainty has been created by it among our trans and non-binary community. It is gut-wrenching to see this reverberate through our party, particularly in the last 24 hours, and to have spent yesterday speaking with some of ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat Election Quotas: An Open Letter]]></title> <link>https://thoughtsofprogress.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/liberal-democrat-election-quotas-an-open-letter/</link> <description><![CDATA[This letter is being written in the context that the Returning Officer for the party elections has rewritten the quota rules in the party constitution through. The effect of these changes, whilst the wording is unclear, appears to be to create a new category of "binary biological sex" through which the quotas in section 2.5 are to be applied. It further reduces the available section 2.6 quota for sexual minorities, and creates a new, separated section 2.6 quota for gender minorities. We, the undersigned, understand and believe the following to be the case: The quotas in section 2.5 of the ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:33:49 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Wadworth brewery in Devizes transformed by demolition]]></title> <link>http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/10/wadworth-brewery-in-devizes-transformed.html</link> <description><![CDATA[For what I believe is the first time, Wiltshire's Gazette & Herald wins our Headline of the Day Award. Don't worry: the historic parts of the brewery have not been razed - the judges just liked the headline.]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:20:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Let them eat lunch]]></title> <link>http://jonathanwallace.blogspot.com/2025/10/let-eat-lunch.html</link> <description><![CDATA[We have a simple rule in Gateshead Lib Dems for action days: always go for lunch together in a local hostelry or in a member's house. On Saturday, at the end of our action day in Dunston Hill and Whickham East, we gathered at the Waggon Team pub near Lobley Hill. Very nice!]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:30:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[From now on, no decent person can vote Tory]]></title> <link>https://www.libdemvoice.org/from-now-on-no-decent-person-can-vote-tory-78604.html</link> <description><![CDATA[I have known lots of Tory voters in my life and a fair few Tory members and many of them have been decent people who want the best for our country, albeit they have different ways of achieving it to us (the same could be said for Labour supporters). But on October 18th the Tory Party changed and I do not believe any decent person can now vote for them. Their " rising star" Katie Lam, who is a shadow Home Office Minister, says that she wants to deport millions of people who have "Indefinite Right to Remain" (ILR). She ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:19:06 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Our weekly West End Ward surgery tonight #dundeewestend]]></title> <link>http://www.dundeewestend.com/2025/10/our-weekly-west-end-ward-surgery.html</link> <description><![CDATA[Our joint weekly ward surgery takes place tonight. This week it is as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title><![CDATA[Farage's half-apology is not good enough]]></title> <link>http://peterblack.blogspot.com/2025/10/farages-half-apology-is-not-good-enough.html</link> <description><![CDATA[The Independent reports that Nigel Farage has described comments made by one of his MPs as "ugly" and "wrong" after she said she was driven "mad" by advertisements featuring Black and Asian people, but stopped short of calling her remarks racist. The Reform leader was responding to an appearance on TalkTV over the weekend, when Sarah Pochin, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, responded to a viewer who complained about the demographics of advertising, saying she thought the viewer was "absolutely right", adding that "It drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people." ...]]></description> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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