LibLink: Paddy Ashdown - 'I used to think the party of Gladstone would end with Ashdown'
Updated: 2011-10-31 14:23:44
Today's Telegraph has an interview with Paddy Ashdown, timed to promote his new TV documentary The Most Courageous Raid of WWII. From the BBC: Lord Ashdown, a former special forces commando, tells the story of the 'Cockleshell Heroes', who led one of the most daring and audacious commando raids of World War II... Lord Ashdown recreates parts of the raid and explains how this experience was used in preparing for one of the greatest land invasions in history, D-day. As well as the documentary, Lord Ashdown's Telegraph interview covers Europe, the Liberal Democrats and the art of compromise: When Ashdown ...
At the end of my post on the Federal Executive's decision that the Liberal Democrats should (mostly) not fight police commissioner elections, a decision at odds with the views of party members we surveyed, I made reference to the fact that the details of such votes are not published and usually remain confidential. Sometimes news of who voted which way seeps out but, for example, you're not officially meant to know that three members of the FE voted against that decision or who the three were. There are arguments in favour of this, such as the idea that the committees ...