Day: October 20, 2007
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Is it just me or do both Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg sound pretty croaky at the moment? They both sound as if they are still recovering from the cold that was going round party conference. If they are, they have my sympathy. I got that bug and it was bloody nasty.
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A few weeks ago, the political blogosphere united to condemn the actions of Alisher Usmanov and his lawyers for attempting to shut down Craig Murray’s blog. We were right to do so; what made Usmanov’s actions particularly reprehensible was the way he used the law to intimidate Murray’s hosting company while cowardly avoiding a fight…
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I suppose honesty is a virtue: I’m getting into exactly the kind of debate that would fill an LSE lecture hall and keep the public watching Rebecca Loos make a pig ejaculate. The path we chose was the academic’s polar opposite without the farmyard. So there you have it. The limits of the Ministry of…
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Am I the only one who finds it quite confusing that LibDems4Chris is written by a guy called Nick? For the record, I really am still genuinely undecided. My assessment is that Chris is the better strategist and Nick is the better communicator. Nick will win my vote if he can convince me he has…
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Originally posted: 19 October 2007, 10.27am. Thus far, it has looked like Nick Clegg has been getting it all his own way with regard to getting public support from the party establishment. The support of Steve Webb and Paddy Ashdown are, for differing reasons, clearly coups. But he hasn’t entirely had it his own way.…