Caron has the story of how FCC decided to think again on conference accreditation by just one vote.

Zoe, Sarah and Adrian from LGBT+LibDems went to talk to the Federal Conference Committee about the problems posed to the Trans community by political conference accreditation.

The Conference Accreditation row has now been reborn as the result of a BBC documentary about security in Birmingham. Jonathan feels cheated, and I can see why.

Gareth is rightly angry at a BBC documentary showing the security arrangements behind last year's conference, with no reference to the fact that they'd infringed civil liberties, and this party let them, to do it.

Stephen Glenn poetically blogs about liberal beliefs and the LibDem preamble to the constitution.

Zoe looks at the Labour London mayoral candidate's recent mistakes over Trans issues.

A Parliamentary Early Day Motion – the MPs method of saying “down with this sort of thing” – has been started. It was proposed by Caroline Lucas (Green) and seconded by Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat) and Mark Durkan (Labour) so has cross-party support already, with the topic being the Sun’s attempts to hunt down the trans man who recently gave birth.

Cambridge City Councillor, Sarah Brown has been named as one of the most influential LGBT people in the UK.

Alex on brilliant form. He's not too keen on the new conference accreditation requirements - and he reckons Paddy Ashdown shaped his instincts on that one.

So the Lib Dems took a battering last week. A lot of postmorteming is going on, and the consensus seems to be that what happened with tuition fees is the issue, and that we cocked up. Well, when I say "we", I mean those of us who had votes in parliament and toed the government line...