Archive for chris huhne
Chris Huhne's new website
Nice new website launched just in time for the election for Chris Huhne. Simon Dickson, who did most of the work on the site and who I’ve worked with several times, talks more about it over on his blog. I would add one observation to his: this site is (yet another) example of a politician [...]
Pro-Lib Dem bias at the BBC shocker
Of course, I read that caption from earlier today as a mark of praise rather than of exasperation:
Conservative MP disowns leaflet in immigration row
From today’s Observer:
David Cameron’s Tories were accused last night of dog-whistle politics after the Conservative leader appeared on the front of flyers saying the floodgates had been opened to mass immigration. Critics say the flyers are alarmist and misleading because they imply limits could be imposed on entrants from EU countries such as Poland.
Last night, [...]
“Report blows a gaping hole in the News of the World’s line that only a sole rogue reporter was involved in illegal hacking of phones”
Reacting to the DCMS select committee report on “Press standards, privacy and libel”, which has just been published, Chris Huhne has said:
This report blows a gaping hole in the News of the World’s line that only a sole rogue reporter was involved in illegal hacking of phones, and reveals enormous worries about the feeble response of the [...]
What's left of Gladstonian Liberalism in the Liberal Democrats?
William Gladstone’s legacy for modern political parties was the subject for discussion at the January meeting of the Liberal Democrat History Group. The meeting was addressed by both Eugenio Biagini, of Cambridge University, and Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary and keen collector of Gladstone memorabilia. Biagini highlighted the contradiction at the heart of [...]
Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith accused of avoiding £5.8m tax as non-dom
So writes today’s Observer:
Zac Goldsmith, David Cameron’s green adviser and a prospective Tory MP, has been accused of avoiding the payment of nearly £6m in tax during the past 10 years by adopting non-domiciled status.
Goldsmith, the prospective Conservative candidate for Richmond Park, is estimated to have a personal fortune of at least £200m, inherited from [...]
David Nutt: why was he sacked?
Earlier today Home Secretary asked the Government’s chief drugs advisor, Professor David Nutt, to resign. The government line is that he was “asked” to resign but, outside the world of pedantic spin doctors who watch too much of The Thick of It, being “asked” to resign is the same as being sacked.
But what’s more concerning [...]
The promise and the peril of not being a one-man band
Ever since the Liberal Democrats were founded, we’ve had the sight of the national media only being interested at most in one figure – the party’s leader – yet also running regular reports about how the party is a one-man band. Cause and effect anyone?
With the rise of Vince Cable to public prominence – and [...]
Using community politics to build a liberal society
UPDATE: The full version of my chapter from Reinventing the State is now online here. That was the title of my chapter in “Reinventing the State”. The first edition has sold out, so it’s just been republished, with a new foreword (available from Amazon here). Amongst more famous contributors are both Nick Clegg and Chris [...]
Makes you proud to be British, part 94
Perhaps it’s a good thing the Daily Mail thinks I’m a foreigner, because if I was British I’d have to be rather ashamed of my country today:
Baby’s DNA was held on database … Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said it was “ludicrous” to have stored the DNA profile. He said: “It is illegal, [...]
