Liberal Conspiracy

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Liberal Conspiracy
Type of site
Blog
Owner Sunny Hundal (editor)
Created byMultiple contributors
URL http://liberalconspiracy.org
CommercialNo
Launched2007
Current statusActive

Liberal Conspiracy was a British left-wing political blog established in November 2007 and edited by Sunny Hundal. Writing in The Guardian , Hundal claimed he set up the site to help "think past single-issue campaigns and work together to push a progressive agenda for Britain ... We have to rebuild the grassroots and translate that into political action by using the web". [1]

Content has been produced by about 250 contributors, and at its peak the blog recorded 180,000 unique visitors in July 2011, as reported by Hundal to website journalism.co.uk. [2] The site was designed by Hundal and Robert Sharp. [3]

On 25 October 2013 Sunny Hundal announced that he no longer had the time to maintain Liberal Conspiracy as a daily-updated blog, and that "the market for opinion is over-saturated", so the website would become an occasionally updated personal blog. [2] It remained available, with no entries or comments beyond 2013, until unavailable after 21 September 2021. [4]

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References

  1. "Sunny Hundal: Bring on the conspiracy | Comment is free". The Guardian. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2012-11-07.
  2. 1 2 Rachel Bartlett (25 October 2013). "Left-wing political blog Liberal Conspiracy closes". Journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  3. "Liberal Conspiracy » About us". 2009-11-25. Archived from the original on 25 November 2009. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  4. Hundal, Sunny (25 October 2013). "The Liberal Conspiracy is coming to an end (in its current form)". Liberal Conspiracy. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021.