Perhaps it is because I have been enjoying Sunny's output for years now - and whatever party card he has or hasn't got in his pocket these days, I am pretty sure he is a liberal. And bloggers like Dave Hill are always good value too.

Is there a danger? Sure there is. The danger is that they confuse being liberal with not being a tory (as Jonathan Calder has pointed out). But there are plenty of people ready make that mistake without this site. The world is not short of liberal democrats who define themselves ideologically as simply "progressive". And I imagine that there won't be too many more just because Sunny has set up a new website.

Is there an opportunity? Reading around the articles, one of the themes is clearly "where did New Labour go wrong?". It is a good question, and one we need to answer ourselves. Our diagnosis of the ills of Britain under the Tories was not radically different from that of New Labour. What would we have done differently if we had been swept to power in 1997? Our critique of New Labour tends to be that they are control freaks, spinners, and centralists. It is fine as far as it goes, but it doesn't tell how it is that Labour have left so many out of the economic progress of the last decade, or why the small "l" liberalism of 1997 to 2001 turned into the small "c" conservatism of Brown's 2007 conference speech.

Okay, I've got views on this, you've got views on this, and we could probably agree on some of them. But watching the debate on Liberal Conspiracy might just help us sharpen our critique of New Labour. And when they work out what went wrong, my guess is that a good percentage of the particiapnts aren't going to see Labour as the vehicle for putting things right.