It seems so long ago now, but all the way back at the end of February, I was involved with the successful campaign to get a change of direction on the Lib Dem approach to the controversial "Digital Economy Bill".  One off the things I specifically called for in the spring conference motion was for an urgent policy working party to be established to look into issues around information technology and intellectual property.  So it is good to see that that working party is about to be formed, headed up by one of my co-signatories to the conference motion, now MP for...

Late this evening, the little fusty corner of the interwebs on which hacks and politicos sit and blather on to themselves were set alight by the news that Saturday's front page of the Telegraph covers a...

(being an open memorandum to the new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office and Minister for Equalities, The Hon Lynne Featherstone MP, particularly on the occasion of "International Day against Homophobia").

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The coalition wreckers from all sides of the political debate have seized upon the idea that there should be a greater that 50%+1 majority in the House of Commons to force a dissolution of a fixed term parliament and a subsequent General Election.  Now, I would not like to claim some kind of intellectual superiority over the nay-sayers, but I think they have lost a screw somewhere.

Let's look at some of the huffing, puffing Mr Heffer...