http://www.sguy.net the weblog of Steve Guy Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:02:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post on Sunday Trading caught my eye. It is often debated in conjunction with the debate  on whether we are still a Christian nation. Very topical when one ex-Prime Minister has just publicly converted to Catholicism and our own leader has come out of the closet as an atheist! ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/12/24/stay-away-from-the-shops-on-boxing-day/ Tuesday the 18th of December 2007 will be remembered as the start of an exciting new era for the Liberal Democrats. We have had the Ashdown years and the Kennedy years, both of which represented significant leaps forward in our electoral success. I believe that the Clegg years have the ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/12/18/the-futures-bright/ Scanning Lib Dem Blogs today, it is pleasing that we now seem to have passed the point where we are all boring each other to death 'bigging up' our preferred leadership candidates - and found other stuff to talk about! This is largely due to NuLab pushing the self-destruct button ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/30/the-die-is-cast/ The rise of, increasingly violent Homophobia in Europe -- and its neighbourhood -- is deeply worrying. It is high on the European Parliament's agenda following a crucial vote in April to condemn the rising phenomenon. Sadly, only one British Conservative MEP voted for the resolution, the rest present voting against ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/26/quote-of-the-day/ There's been a lot of 'outraged of Libdemland' blog posts about the 'calamity' document. Some have really gone off at the deep end suggesting that some cardinal and unforgivable sin has been committed. Now let's be quite clear on a couple of things. First off - the title of the ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/19/hand-wringing-doesnt-change-my-view/ There's a lot of unfortunate stuff flying around at the moment, because the battle for the Lib Dem leadership is hotting up a little. It needed to! Whilst it is great that our two candidates agree on so much, we do need to pry open the differences between them if ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/18/why-im-still-backing-chris-2/ Just to take a break from the leadership for a moment, fans of U2 will be intrigued by this iLike video. Wave of Sorrow was originally something which didn't make it on to the classic 'Joshua Tree' album, here we see Bono explaining the song, and then singing it - ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/14/wave-of-sorrow/ Because Labour and the Tories don't want us to. Readers with long memories will remember that I backed Chris Huhne last time we had a leadership election. At that time, people were saying 'Chris Who' rather a lot. But Chris gained ground at a terrific rate once people began to ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/12/why-im-still-backing-chris-1/ Notably absent for the last few weeks, this blog is back. My participation in the Euro campaign would have curtailed what I could say here, so I said nothing. Then, I had to bite my tongue through Ming's surprise resignation, and furthermore, we were specifically forbidden from endorsing a leadership ... http://www.sguy.net/2007/11/11/once-more-into-the-fray/ http://www.sguy.net/2007/10/04/free-burma/