Showing posts with label Michael Meadowcroft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Meadowcroft. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Martin Wainwright's Guardian obituary of Michael Meadowcroft

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Embed from Getty Images Michael Meadowcroft, who wrote so many obituaries himself, is remembered in the Guardian by Martin Wainwright, the ...
Friday, June 05, 2026

The Joy of Six 1528

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Tom Williams reports from Southampton: "The demonstration descended into rioting as protesters clashed with police. Out-of-towners, in...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Michael Meadowcroft (1942-2026)

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Embed from Getty Images Sad news on Liberal Democrat Voice this morning: Michael Meadowcroft has died at the age of 84. His victory in Leed...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

"Where's my bloody toast, Churchill?": Our Trivial Fact of the Day

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A.C. MacLaren, captain of Lancashire and England, once made 424 against Somerset. He was a hero of the great cricket journalist Neville Card...
Sunday, April 06, 2025

BOOK REVIEW When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator . When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis Paperback edited by Pau...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Layla Moran and Michael Meadowcroft on the Lib Dems and a progressive alliance

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In Liberator 408 we’ve done something a bit different by running extended pieces by Layla Moran and Michael Meadowcroft on Liberal Democrat ...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Michael Meadowcroft's Guardian obituary of Jonathan Fryer

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The former Liberal MP Michael Meadowcroft has written an obituary of Jonathan Fryer for the Guardian: Jonathan Fryer, who has died aged 70 ...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Michael Meadowcroft's Guardian obituary of Diana Maddock

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Michael Meadowcroft has written an obituary of the Liberal Democrat peer Diana Maddock , who won a famous and unlikely by-election victory...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Six of the Best 929

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Michael Meadowcroft reviews the Lib Dems' election review. Jeremy Farrar is interviewed about science, public policy and Covid-19:...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Six of the Best 926

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Michael Meadowcroft points us to a short document on the principles of liberal democracy that he once helped Leeds Lib Dems draw up. Na...
Saturday, February 03, 2018

Six of the Best 765

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Replying to the Michael Meadowcroft article included in the last of these round ups, Paul Holmes says a good targeting strategy is essent...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Six of the Best 764

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"By definition, once we have no campaigning in a majority of seats our organisation atrophies and we lose the deliverers, canvassers ...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

Michael Meadowcroft's obituary of Bill Pitt

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Embed from Getty Images Bill Pitt, who was Liberal MP for Croydon North-West between 1981 and 1983, died a couple of weeks ago at the age ...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Why Liberal Democrat members should subscribe to Liberator

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I have already posted Lord Bonkers' Diary from the current issue of Liberator and given you a taste of the party gossip to be found...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

The battle for the footloose idealists

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While I have Liberator 135 , the issue that was sold at the Liberal Party's 1983 Assembly in Harrogate, on my desk, let me quote from an...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Book Review: A Guide to the Works of Art of the National Liberal Club

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You can find this review in today's Liberal Democrat News. A Guide to the Works of Art of the National Liberal Club, London (second...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Michael Meadowcroft provides more reasons why the Lib Dems should stop calling for referendums on Europe

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The former Liberal MP Michael Meadowcroft emails in response to my Liberal Democrat News article saying the party should stop calling for r...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

The significance of Cyril Smith

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Numerous tributes have been paid to Cyril Smith since his death was announced yesterday. In a comment on Liberal Democrat Voice, Chris Ren...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Michael Meadowcroft learns the nature of local radio

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Martin Kelner has a piece in the Guardian Media section today that mentions his time in local radio. He remembers presenting an evening sho...
Friday, October 26, 2007

House Points: Europe and boundaries

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My House Points column from today's Liberal Democrat News - perhaps not my most inspired effort. I heard Michael Meadowcroft tell the B...