Clik here to view.
If you want some of my pension Vince, you could just ask…
On Sunday, my gf finally forced me to sit down and fill in my pension form. For various reasons which I won’t go into, it has taken me a long time to do this and take advantage of my (teeny tiny)...
View ArticleWhy do faith school supporters want them to be so awful?
I have to admit to coming out of the Lib Dem debate on 5-19 education feeling somewhat perplexed. After a complicated series of four amendments wrangling over the same bunch of lines, what the party...
View ArticleThe Lib Dems don’t need a blogging strategy. They need a Lembit strategy
Alex Singleton has written a wonderfully charmless little attack post on about the state of Lib Dem blogosphere (it is always nice to find an article like this has been written by someone I have...
View ArticleThe Peopl(ish) Budget
Vince Cable has been dropping heavy hints about raising taxation over the last few days, so it is not a tremendous surprise to see him and Clegg calling for a tax on the value of properties above £1m....
View ArticleThe Liberal Democrat post-credit crunch economic policy. A blow by blow account.
John Harris wonders why the Liberal Democrat party faithful seems so incapable of defining what the Liberal Democrats stand for, unlike the masterful Vince Cable. A clue may come in the fact that the...
View ArticleOur Vince: From Fred Astaire to Mr Bean?
As a follow up to my piece about Lib Dem economic policy this morning, I’ve written an article on Comment is Free about Vince Cable and why he is starting to be a bit of a problem for the Lib Dems: I...
View ArticlePolicy Committee says no to Clegg: game over?
18 of the 29-strong Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee have signed a letter in the Guardian today asserting that… …as a clear majority of members of the FPC, we think it would be valuable to clarify now...
View Article++ EXCLUSIVE: Clegg and Cable quit PoliticsHome’s Phi100 ++
I was planning to write a nice, leisurely blog post about a) why Lib Dems should be following Lynne Featherstone’s lead and resign from the Phi100 panel and b) the wider trend by the right to take...
View ArticleReporting back from the Fabians: What not to spend
The Fabian Society kindly gave me a media registration for their new year conference and I spent last Saturday at Imperial College mingling with the Labour Party faithful. I sadly missed Gordon Brown’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clegg and coalition six months on
The fact that Lib Dem conference is rapidly approaching means that I have a semi-anniversary of my own to mark. It’s now been just over six months since I left the Lib Dems. Life after party politics...
View Article