PollWatch: views of the coalition government and party leaders
Two polls have been published this week offering some early sense of public perceptions of the Lib Dem / Conservative coalition government, and how they rate the party leaders. Public views of the...
View ArticleDaily Mail slowly catching up with realities of coalition government
To mock the Daily Mail is, however satisfying and amusing, to largely miss the point: it is its own best self-parody. Today’s a case in point, as it dawns on the paper that a coalition government...
View ArticleOne way to cure Lib Dem masochism – what I wrote for the Grauniad
Over at The Guardian’s Comment is Free website I have an article proposing the Lib Dem leadership take a Coalition chill-pill, and start disagreeing more openly with our Conseravtive partners… We’re...
View ArticleCoalition’s Charity Tax U-turn: the lessons that charities and the Government...
I asked two days ago if the Government’s ‘Pasty Tax’ U-turn would herald a reversal of the ‘Charity Tax’. I got word this morning that this was indeed on the cards: Charity Tax U-turn imminent from...
View ArticleMike Moritz’s gift to Oxford: a couple of thoughts from me
Oxford University was yesterday able to unveil what is probably the largest ever pledged donation towards student financial assistance in the history of any European university. The bountiful...
View Article‘Will the UK political marriage survive?’
I took part in a panel discussion on Voice of Russia radio yesterday on the subject ‘Will the UK political marriage survive?’. Here’s how it was billed, and you can listen to the half-hour programme...
View ArticleOsborne’s budget: who reckons the Lib Dems would have cheered it if we’d...
View image | gettyimages.com A couple of months ago I highlighted a potential pitfall for the Lib Dems of assuming the post-Coalition Tories would “revert to type, that their swivel-eyed, nut-job...
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