Welcome to Catchup, bringing you the tastiest nuggets of LDV from the last fortnight, apart from Conference, which we caught up here.

We started the period with a debate about fairtrade. Good? John Pugh MP thought so; Julian Harris wasn’t so sure.

We learned where thousands of Lib Dems will be trekking to conference over the coming years.

We learned the Government had caved on individual voter registration – and Mark Pack explained why that was a good thing.

Our peers came out top. Ros Scott unleashed hell. Bob Russell MP campaigned to save pubs.

Guest contributors included Hywel Morgan, pointing out a rather ridiculous mistake by the BNP, Charlotte Gore thought Modern Liberty was rubbish, Geoffrey Payne kicked the bankers. York Membury gave us a historical perspective of life after Labour and Joe Taylor urged Lib Dem councils to ditch their in-house propaganda sheets. Whilst on the subject of local government, we also had two pieces on the subject of alternate weekly collection from Iain Coleman, who made it work in Cambridge, and a piece from the FT saying Lib Dem AWC plans cost them 24 seats in Waverley in 2007.

Laurence Boyce generated more heat than light when he decided to quit the party – over 70 of you had opinions about whether he should climb down off the parapet or jump; a good number of you had something to say about this week’s Question Time and a number of you had suggestions about how to improve the nation’s sales personnel after Mark Pack listed the worst sales calls he’s had recently.

Perhaps the most striking piece of writing this week was Karin Robinson’s beer fuelled rant in which she told us – “Yes you can!” and a number of us popped up in the comments to doubt whether actually we could.

It’s been a twitter-heavy fortnight: we urged you to tweet at conference and we reported back when you responded by the thousand. Even twitter-sceptics like our dinosaur editor-at-large Stephen Tall were secretly impressed.

CommentIsLinked@LDV
We linked to Jonathan Calder in the Guardian
Vince Cable warning about China
James Graham keeping his pecker up

Numerology
@LibDig Pig #13
94% of conference reps fooled by Kate Winslet
Golden Dozens: 108, 107, 106.
Haggis Neeps and liberalism #2

In our private members’ forum
Aberdeenshire expulsions
Postponed election technicality
Private landlord campaigns
Ron Paul foreign policy analysis