Kirsten Johnson, LDCF Exec Member, marks IDEVAW by reflecting on the issue of violence against women here in today's society and telling us how we can help put a stop to it.

LDCF member, Clarke Roberts, offers a theological perspective on campaigning on housing. Hopefully this will be the first of many - stay tuned!

Christmas poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Guest blog by LDCF member, Peter Taylor

One of the many delights about being a member of our party is that conference still debates and votes on party policy. One amendment that elicited a large number of responses in Glasgow was proposed by Evan Harris and Julian Huppert during the Equalities Policy Paper debate. The first part of this called for an end to faith-based selection to all new state-funded schools and to phase this out over the next five years in all schools. 

Widespread panic seems to have taken hold of much the political landscape as the realisation sinks in that the UK Independence Party (UKIP) could now be, as Farage has declared, ‘Serious Players.’