Having a brand new blisteringly fast computer for my birthday means I can start processing and uploading video again. Here as a starter for 10, is a BBC South Today report from April 17, 2009 by Peter Henley on the use of the web, video and Twitter for campaigning, featuring the successful Save Our Loos campaign we ran in Alresford in the first half of 2009. [IMG: media] [See post to watch Flash video] You can see all my latest uploaded video on this page.
Guest post by Mark Littlewood. The news today that Matthew Elliott is to spearhead the NO campaign against the Alternative Vote should send shudders through the pro-electoral reform lobby. There is a very long way to go before next May's referendum - and it is not yet a nailed on certainty that the referendum will even take place - but the early signs are very ominous for supporters of electoral reform. My judgement is that the NO side are now clear, although not overwhelming, favourites. The YES side face a number of substantial strategic and tactical hurdles and it's not ...
Only 23 pages in this chapter, covering the immediate aftermath of Theodosius' death - the power struggle between Rufinus and Stilicho, resolved in favour of the latter, and a revolt in Africa by Gildo the Moor. Various points detail, but for once Gibbon doesn't really manage to make it sing, I suppose because we are setting the scene for Alaric in the next chapter.
Sun 22nd
22:37
Ed Miliband MP lays out welcome mat for Lib Dems and concedes defeat in leadership race
This evening I have begun to wonder if the Labour leadership race had finished because Ed Miliband MP seems to have a lot of spare time on his hands talking to Liberal Democrats. Instead of making up stupid stories perhaps he should concentrate on persuading Labour Members to vote for him. Aha. Now I get it, he is admitting he has lost already and therefore conceding defeat in the Labour leadership race hence why he now has time to start talking to the media about made up stories about the Liberal Democrats. Yesterday we had the nonsense about the supposed ...
Green discusses the political deadlock ABC election analyst Antony Green discusses the federal election outcome where neither the Coalition or ALP holds a majority in parliament. Contains: video, image, via abc.net.au The question is relevant because Australia uses the alternative vote (AV) for the House of Representatives. The answer is that we can't say - at least, not yet. Here, the ABC's Antony Green explains that the result of the Australian federal election -- which he describes as the closest in the country's history -- may not be clear for at least another week. And he believes that which party ...
Central Bedfordshire Council have made an Order the effect of which will be to prohibit any vehicle, except a vehicle being used for fire, police or ambulance purposes in an emergency, from proceeding along that length of A6 Silsoe to Barton which extends from the roundabout with Barton Road, Silsoe to the junction with Barton Road, Pulloxhill. This temporary closure is required to enable carriageway patching work to be carried out in safety and shall apply to such extent as may from time to time be indicated by the appropriate traffic signs. Where possible access will be maintained to property ...
Thanks to a tweet this morning from GetLabourOut I went on to read their blog post, Labour - Mismanaging Even Their Own Finances which in turn pushed me to read the piece in the Guardian titled John Prescott: Labour 'on the verge of bankruptcy' which in turn provided me with more information to write the following blog post. I know the topic of the funding of political parties is an emotive topic for many members of the public. Whether political parties receive state funding or not? Should unions and big business continue to bank roll Labour and the Conservatives? Should ...
Jock Coats has helpful recorded Clarence Lee Swartz's What is Mutualism. A link to the recordings is here.
I returned home from holiday to find the latest Liberator waiting for me. So it is again time to catch up with Rutland's most celebrated fictional peer. This time his lordship has eschewed a strict daily account of his affairs and employed a looser format in its place. Nice. Lions pad across the parched grassland as a Paramount Chief of the Zulus hefts his assegai. Yes, summer has come to Rutland. The days flow into one another - hence the rather freehand nature of this Diary. I am modelling my literary technique upon the "stream of consciousness" pioneered by Virginia ...
There I was sitting on the banks of the Cherwell in Christ Church Meadow. Near me were a couple who appeared to be living out of carrier bags. She was feeding the wildfowl on the river - ducks, geese and a lone swan that tried hard to imply it was above such things - and he had the inevitable dog on a length of string. Impressively, when it threatened to become too interested in the crowd of birds that had gathered, he spoke to it firmly and it settled down again. And she was impressive too for her confidence and ...
I can't help but think that were we not in government, we would be completely ignored now by the media. Had we not formed the Coalition, we would have been savaged for a few weeks for causing instability and then we would have dropped out of the headlines until the autumn when the inevitable general election would be held (and no doubt Labour would have blamed us for an unnecessary election by
I am not keen on the idea that we should have a "textbook case" for suicide but these were the words used by the pathologist who performed the post-mortem on Dr David Kelly. I have not looked for any books on suicide but I don't think hacking at my wrist would be the nicest way to go. I am not sure that this method would succeed because many doctors have dismissed this cause for Dr Kelly's death. As I understand it Dr Kelly struggled to cut up meat with his right hand. His left wrist was cut. Now try this ...
Lord Prescott today announces Labour is near bankruptcy and a diminishing membership. Since the General election the Labourites seem to have lost their way as well as losing their leader. The image portrayed is a fragmented labour party unsure whether it wants to have Balls or a Miliband. Labour is lost, their ideology confused. ...
A nicely constructed novel of the Tenth Doctor and Martha, taking them to a contemporary English village where there is Something Narsty in the well. A good set of local characters filling out a fairly standard alien menace story; I wasn't completely convinced by the engineering aspects of the secret tunnel, but prepared to forgive it for overall charm.
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 182nd weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (15th – 21st August, 2010), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox – just click here – ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. The ...
In a shocking accident near Ilkley a man was hit by three cars, but only one stopped at the incident. Poor guy. It is, of course,a crime not to stop at the scene of an accident. From the BBC News Website: "A 39-year-old man has died after he was hit by three cars in West Yorkshire. Police said two of the three cars which hit Stephen Wood failed to stop at the scene of the crash on the A65 Skipton Road, near Ilkley, just after midnight. Mr Wood, who is from the Ilkley area, had been drinking in the Vaults ...
It didn't take me too long to track down the local synagogue - but in a country where religion is such an issue historically at least, it's something of a surprise to find this has at least one tourist map called "Sarajevo - the european Jerusalem" (meaning all the faiths are here). Sure enough on every street corner there is a mosque and then varying shades of catholic or orthodox christianity - few sign of methodist missionaries here! But regular readers will not be surprised to learn that I tracked down the Jewish Museum and the Ashkenazi synagogue _ I've ...
I'd love to know. But, for me, the situation is summed up by this little straw in the wind from Stuff.co.nz: Labor leader and caretaker prime minister Julia Gillard said she had opened negotiations with the Greens and independents and claimed a swing to the former was an endorsement of centre-Left government. I see. So they managed to get rid of Howard and brought in Rudd on a wave of euphoria just three years ago. But now we have a leek brandisher desperately clinging to power based on a swing to the Greens who got all of one seat! As ...
Since my last post on the subject, I'm afraid to say I'm still not much further forward in getting back up and running with my reading which in turn means a shortage of book reviews. Meanwhile, I've been happy to purchase more books! I'm still determined to finish The Storm but need to somehow incentivise myself to make reading a regular part of my day again and to get through it. Here's hoping I'll be posting a review of it soon. Any ideas welcome! Andrew
Q: How can you tell if a mathematician is an extrovert? A: If he looks at your shoes when he is talking to you.
The UK music industry's revenues declined by less than 1% in the last year, a smaller drop than in previous years and a change that looks particular good given the economy overall was in sharp recession at the same time. These figures are likely to reinforce the views of critics of the Digital Economy Act who have attacked its approach to online piracy. As The Register's story says: Reporting research that will further fuel the debate about the effect of copyright-infringing file sharing on the music industry, Ofcom said that a jump in single sales of 27 per cent and ...
[IMG: Printed version of article in ALDC's Campaigner] Ed Maxfield and I wrote the following piece for ALDC's Campaigner magazine: During the election campaign, one of our friends recruited a sprightly new party member - who as filling out her membership form revealed she was well into her nineties. But even she is too young to remember the last time there were Liberals in government outside of wartime. So it's no surprise that many activists, particularly in England, are unsure how to cope with the practicalities of our party being in government in Westminster. Being in government offers great opportunities ...
Our local paper, The Edmonton Journal, covers world affairs by culling stories from English language papers worldwide and re-writing them for an Albertan audience, often with surprising and delightful results. Yesterday it informed its readers that the Kremlin's past owners include "two royal dynasties -- the Ruriks and the Bolsheviks". The Journal had the cheek to keep the Daily Telegraph's Moscow correspondent Andrew Osborn's byline on the piece. I think he should sue. Today the Journal informs its readers: "The rats commonly seen in England are already huge by Canadian standards -- comparable in size to a cat or a ...
[IMG: Posted by Picasa] Mr Abdulhadi Alsaffar, who attended one of our regular series of seminars at House of Lords on Bahrai, seen here at the seminar in December 2008, was arrested today. There seems to be a link between those who have attend our seminars and all the recent arrests. The message is that if you go abroad to express your opinion on Bahrain's political situation - which you can't do at home - there will be severe consequences. The security authorities have explicitly threatened that they will reach all of those involved in such activities.
Sun 22nd
16:35
"The voting system is broken, back the Alternative": ads to help win May's voting referendum
Last month, The Voice asked the question, Can you design a poster to win the AV "Yes" campaign?, highlighting TakeBackParliament.com's competition to crowd-source the design talent of bloggers who support abolishing first-past-the-vote and replacing it with the Alternative Vote in readiness for next May's referendum. The winner has now been announced (and sorry, guys, but it doesn't do it for me). Runner-up was Lib Dem blogger Stuart Bonar, who produced an excellent series of designs. Here's an example from one batch: And an even more inspired set here exemplified by this one: Congratulations to Stuart for some striking messaging.
For a few weeks now, the 210 bus route through north London has been on diversion. It is missing out Sunnyside Road and Beaumont Rise, where the bus stop is closed, and instead taking a detour around Hazellville Road. [IMG: 210 bus stop closed on Beaumont Rise] [IMG: 210 bus route diversion sign] The diversion has been puzzling me because there is no sign of why it is in place. At first I hoped it was because Beaumont Rise might be able to get some major resurfacing and lose its crown as Queen of Islington's Potholes (a crown Stroud Green ...
I think this was the only remaining Discworld novel which I had not read; the first of the subset primarily aimed at younger readers. Maurice, slightly to my surprise, turns out to be a talking cat, associated with a group of talking rats who have acquired intelligence accidentally. As ever with Pratchett, it is funny and humane, with a touch of darkness and a couple of moral / political lessons for the young human characters (and thus also the reader). The riffs on Browning and Disney simultaneously are beautiful. Glad to complete my reading of this particular canon on a ...
Although the final result may appear unexpectedly shocking at first sight to the unprepared, the outcome was the best that we could have hoped for under the circumstances. Concerned residents, campaigners and local amenity group representatives were relieved to learn ... Continue reading →
CHARLES Kennedy (in Scotland on Sunday) has described claims he is considering joining the Labour party as "complete rubbish", following reports that he was about to resign in disgust at the Liberal Democrat pact with the Tories. The former Lib Dem leader emerged from a meeting with constituents in Dingwall to declare he would not be joining Labour. "It is absolute rubbish," he said. "I am not joining the Labour Party and have not had any discussions about it with anyone from the Labour Party." He added: "I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem ...
I was speaking to Mrs Etchells (of Etchells newsagents) today about the rise of Graffiti in Chorlton. It seems to be a growing problem. Our Street Environment manager Emma Hopkins has done a lot of work to stem the tide. Graffiti on public property is a pain and annoying, but it doesn't get me angry like the recent cases of graffiti on private property like vans on Beech Rd, Cranbourne Rd and shop fascias. I took part in a talk on graffiti as part of the Arts Festival back in May and met some more mature graffiti artists who thought ...
It is a while we have posted anything about the Two Tunnels, http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/ that is because there has been so much work behinds the scenes, one of these is putting back bridges over Dratmouth Avenue and Monksdale Road. For a picture of what this would look likehttp://www.twotunnels.org.uk/public_event.html
In a little under nine months, the British people will be voting on changing our voting system from First Past The Post (FPTP) to the Alternative Vote system (AV). No-one is hugely excited about this. The Liberal Democrats want to go much further and have the Single Transferable Vote system (STV), while the Tories hate ...
So today, at last, the news media is finally reporting the pretty unsurprising news that Charles Kennedy, leader of the Lib Dems from 1999 to 2006, is not leaving the Lib Dems in 2010. Now it is of course the silly season, and we can easily write off this journalistic confection as mere desperation to fill some column inches / dead air-time. But actually I think it's a symptom of a wider malaise in political journalism, its 'tabloidisation'. How an unsourced rumour went viral Let's go back to Friday afternoon, when the Kennedy defection rumours started circulating, and work out ...
Whilst LGBT activism in the UK have descended into mainly being about pride partying (with the occasional misdirected political attack against other LGBT people who you don't agree with, as happened at Bristol Pride this weekend when LGBT Labour decided it was more fun to be bitchy and score political points than be united) or surveys on who is the best role model for LGBT Youth (yes Stonewall AGAIN), in Ireland there appears to still be some people fighting for actual equality. Last month Ireland's own Civil Partnership Bill was signed into law. But LGBT activists aren't prepared to settle ...
This Is England, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Thomas Turgoose, is one of my favourite films. I watched it again this morning ahead of Channel 4's new four-part mini-series starting in September.
Lib Dem Voice reported earlier this week the news that Lynne Featherstone had secured government support for a new policy to ban wheel clamping and towing away of vehicles on private property, bringing England and Wales in line with Scotland. YouGov asked the following question directly of members of the public: The government have announced they intend to ban wheel clamping on private land. Under their plans only the police and local councils would have the right to use wheel clamps or tow cars away. Would you support or oppose a ban on private wheel clamping firms? The result? 87% ...
I'm not sure there is much to say other than these pictures but suffice to say it is the dominant feature of the places I have been here in Bosnia Herzegovina - graveyard upon graveyard. These are not old and well maintained - these are recent, specific and relate to the 1992-1995 war. This series were taken in Mostar.
A constituent recently wrote to me expessing concern that there appears to be still no criteria for the new national exams that will be replacing Standard Grades. He asked if this meant that teaching staff have to start teaching the new curriculum, but with no idea about the detail of the exams that they should be preparing pupils for? The Head of Secondary Education at the City Council has advised me as follows : "The new examination framework will not begin until May 2014. Pupils in the present S2, S3 and S4 stages will continue to sit Standard grade exams ...
I have no problem with people wanting to protect their copyright – though I do infringe that in a minor way by downloading music youtubes, creating new ones and then uploading them to Youtube again – specifically to show what my favourite Eurovision songs of the last decade are. Unfortunately, one of the songs has ...
Announcement from Dundee Liberal Democrats this afternoon : Dundee Liberal Democrats have today announced the selection of well known Dundee community activist and child protection campaigner Allan Petrie, as their Scottish Parliamentary Candidate for the Dundee East. Allan has a wealth of experience in representing people and working to improve local communities. He served as Dundee City Councillor for Pitkerro Ward from 1999 to 2003. Although elected as an SNP councillor, he left the party given increasing concerns about the direction of the SNP, and he joined the Liberal Democrats four years ago. Allan has also served as chairperson on ...
At around now, assuming that he hasn't overslept, my friend and fellow West Lothian Lib Dem and blogger Stephen Glenn will be heading back to Northern Ireland for the next few months. The next series of Strictly just won't be the same without him on the other sofa technical qualities of the dancing. Stephen has been a part of our lives now for 8 years and we will really miss him. So will the Scottish Liberal Democrats for all the work he's done and the hundreds of thousands of leaflets he's delivered, very often putting the party above his own ...
This morning 3.30am my wife was up and ready to take part in this very important fund raising event for St David's Hospice. After registration at 4.15am, about 3-4 hundred women set off from Ysgol Aberconwy to St David's in Llandudno and back, a total of just over 9 miles. My wife told me that the event was very well organised and everyone who took part was very well looked after at the half way stage. St David's Hospice hope to raise £50K from this one event.
As this BBC Somerset report excitedly notes, Tessa Munt is "the first Liberal Democrat MP for Wells since World War II", having defeated Tory incumbent David Heathcote-Amory in May. You can read here about how she's settling into her new office ("The most important thing for me was making sure we were actually accessible from ever single part of the constituency"), furnished with recycled fittings ("I did actually do a raid on some of the outgoing MPs offices. ... I don't frankly mind if my box files are second hand."). And as for how she's taken to the job of ...
It's good to have visitors, and it's also tremendously helpful when the younger members of the household help out with the catering arrangements for the smaller guests:
Much has been made of the fact that Charles Kennedy has taken a long time to clear up the matter of his 'impending defection' to the Labour party. Lets make one thing clear here that I think is rather important. ... Continue reading →
"The sweaty interplay among the nine soldiers"? Hmm... perhaps not quite the best choice of words in the description of the PG rated Nine Men.
I had some sort of Epiphany yesterday; I came to a t-junction on the Damascus Road. For some reason I had never before read Clarence Lee Swartz's "What is Mutualism?" right through previously (possibly, I seem to remember, because he criticises Henry George and the Single Tax). I got drawn in yesterday, and eventually decided that this was so representative of my ideological viewpoint now that I just had to record it as an audiobook. Basing the idea of liberty on Spencer's formula of Equal Freedom: That every man may claim the fullest liberty to do as he wills compatible ...
Sunny Hundal at Liberal Conspiracy has written an excellent blog today which match my thoughts on the rumours of Charles Kennedy and others defecting to Labour. I very much agree with him that Labourites don't under Libdems and it was odd that Kennedy took so long to respond. Read it here Why it was unlikely Charles Kennedy would defect to Labour We all know that Charles abstained from the vote to join the coalition and wrote his thoughts down on my in the Guardian see Charles Kennedy: Why I couldn't support Clegg's deal with the Tories. In Kennedy defence in ...
The next Farmers Markets on Conwy Quay are to be held on September 8th & October 6th, both are Wednesdays and will be between 08.30 to 13.00. The first Market was held earlier this month on the 4th and if the standard is maintained I would recommend you pay it a visit.
I heard this playing on a tape in the bar of an otherwise undistinguished hotel in Wales. Maybe you had to be there, because it is less impressive now I have got home. Still, I have decided to go with it and there was another good song on that tape that I shall choose another Sunday. Wikipedia says the song was written by Reginald Hall, who was Fats Domino's brother-in-law, but that Fats turned it down. There is more about Joe Jones at allmusic.
From Nick Barlow on Twitter: Just heard a rumour that Charles Kennedy will defect to Labour as soon as they find the WMDs in Iraq.
It recently came to light that Haringey Council has spent practically the highest amount in the whole country on its website. The Telegraph newspaper released the information showing that Haringey spent over £500,000 on a website redesign in 2003 and together with running costs since – have spent over £2million. Blimey! for that amount of money you would expect the best looking and easiest to navigate site in the land! This over the top expenditure demonstrates just why the Council is facing a £10million budget black hole of its own making this year. And yes – it's not going to ...
Regular readers will know that I'm a keen user of Contact Islington for reporting graffiti, dumped rubbish, materials left behind by contractors* and so on. My experience of Contact Islington has been rather patchy and can be summarised as: too often gets things wrong first time round but once you get an issue escalated through to middle or senior managers who are responsible for delivering the actual services you find a pretty good bunch of people. Hence my attention was got by the good work of Will Perrin in starting to scrutinise data on Contact Islington's performance. Nice work. If ...
The latest in my reports of Stockport's local elections from 1974 onwards. 1991 looks like the year nothing much changed. The only exception I've spotted is John Ashworth regaining his council seat in Edgeley, having been edged out in 1990. My namesake Ian Roberts was re-elected for Cheadle, John Pantall was safely returned in Cheadle Hulme North. Les Jones (now leader of the Conservative group on the Council) whilst Tom Grundy, now a Labour councillor, missed out in Heaton Moor. 02/05/91 1991 Stockport Bredbury (11593) @ 1 vote share Cooper G.* LD 2760 50.7 Humphries S. Ms. LAB 1685 31 ...
I'll be on the road when this publishes. However, a musical redition of the journey. Has to start with this: Simply for the line "Bathgate no more". Then I'll be setting sail for: Before the final short hop to: Even though I keep insisting this song is about the other Bangor in North Wales. But Operation Evacuate is underway and by tonight I'll be sleeping in my mums not for a breif stay but for a period of months.
One you may have missed from December 29th 2006 Before the ban on hunting with hounds, we were told the law was illiberal because it would destroy hunts, put people out of work and take away the liberty of people to enjoy hunting. Now we are told that the law has failed because it has not destroyed hunts, not put people out of work and has not taken away the liberty of people to enjoy hunting. Huh?! Have I missed something?! Could it be that the law is actually successful because it has precisely excised the one practice which was ...
Well that's what a friend of a friend said who knows someone related to a member of the the Labour party! I'm sure this will be headline news on the BBC in a few hours! But don't hold your hopes out because unlike the Kennedy rumour - this is actually true isn't it, AV - yeah!
Sun 22nd
08:54
Perhaps this gives us a little clue as to why the Kennedy story was total equine manure from the sta...
Good old Charlie Kennedy has now unequivocally denied rumours he might be thinking of defecting: It is absolute rubbish, I am not joining the Labour Party and have not had any discussions about it with anyone from the Labour Party. I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket. This whole rumour started with this post on the Left Futures blog. Read down to the end. There is a little clue which gives the game away: Charles Kennedy's own Scottish seat of Caithness and Sutherland has historically been a Labour seat, ...
On the 17th December 2008 in an unusual show of unanimity 635 out of 685 MEP's voted in favour of the RES (Renewable Energy Source) Directive to establish a common European framework for promoting energy from renewable sources. This directive defines energy from renewable sources as non fossil coming from such as solar, wind and water including aerothermal, hydrothermal and geothermal heat pumps. The definitions were spelt out for each of the three heat pump sources including 'aerothermal' - coming from 'solar heated air'. This was a real boost to aerothermal, or air-sourced, heat pumps (ASHP) which was recognised widely ...
Charles Kennedy has set the record straight over rumours of his defection which kept the political tweeters and bloggers buzzing yesterday whilst everyone else sensibly got on with their Saturday. As Scotland on Sunday reports, he made the comments after a meeting with constituents in Dingwall. It is absolute rubbish, I am not joining the Labour Party and have not had any discussions about it with anyone from the Labour Party. I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket. Ed Miliband has also agreed that no talks have taken place ...
i) births and deaths None that grabbed me ii) broadcast anniversaries 22nd August 1964: broadcast of 'A Change of Identity', third eisode of the story we now call The Reign of Terror. Susan and Barbara are rescued; Ian escapes; the Doctor disguises himself as a Regional Officer (magnificent uniform), but the jailer has rumbled him... 22nd August 1985: broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of Slipback on radio. Eric Saward still thinks he is Douglas Adams and the Doctor manages not to prevent the Big Bang. In response to queries from Alex, it seems that the story was broadcast twice ...
An annual audit by the Royal College of Physicians has once again found stroke services in Wales are lagging behind those in England and Northern Ireland. It has highlighted the lack of a 24-hour service to ensure patients have access to life-saving clot-busting drugs round the clock. Only two of the UK's 75 acute stroke units are in Wales and the nation has fewer qualified nurses caring for patients. This is at least the sixth year the audit has highlighted worrying shortcomings in Welsh stroke care. An area of particular concern is the lack of 24-hour thrombolysis in Wales - ...
Though obviously I would not class any of these stories as silly. It is just that any other time of the year they would not have so much prominence. Thus, we have the story in The Telegraph from a few days ago, which reports that an advert for an amulet which promised 'divine protection' has been banned by advertising bosses because the firm behind it could not prove that angels will protect those who wear it: The magazine advert, placed by The Circle of Raphael (CoR), promised that the 'seven angels amulet' would bring its owner 'angelic blessings, guidance and ...
Yesterday afternoon I attended The Salford Garden Party at the Civic Centre in Swinton. This annual event is designed to promote, amongst other things, the services Salford City Council has to offer it's residents. As someone interested in local politics, the highlight of the Garden Party is "The Big Ask", where ordinary people like you and me have the opportunity to question our city's councillors and leaders on, well, pretty much anything we like. Last year I attended and queried Councillor Merry on my pet hate of potholes, but my intention was simply to listen this year - since I'm ...
Watching Nick Clegg's performance live on the BBC News channel today I was hoping that he would have slightly better time of it than the last Q&A where he was rather heavily battered by an overxealous member of the audience. ... Continue reading →
