Archive for nick clegg
The fallout from Chris Huhne’s resignation
I’ve been busy with the media yesterday and today giving my take on Chris Huhne’s resignation, so here are the two main highlights if you missed them: The Lib Dem Voice survey results I mention are covered in the piece Which four Liberal Democrat ministers have most improved their standings in 2011? and for more [...]
Nick Clegg: what his speech web page could have looked like
Earlier today in amongst positive comments about the communications handling of Nick Clegg’s speech, I also made some criticisms of the digital side. It’s only fair to ask, “OK, but what would you have done?” so here is the web page I would have put together: Nick Clegg: More money back in your pocket I’ve [...]
Nick Clegg’s speech in a word cloud
And finally, to round off a trio of posts about Nick Clegg’s speech today to the Resolution Foundation, here is his speech as a word cloud: UPDATE: Here’s my one-pager summary of the substance of Nick Clegg’s Resolution Foundation speech, in handy sharing-friendly format.
Nick Clegg turns media weakness into media strength
Ask a Liberal Democrat what they think about the British media and chances are you will hear a complaint about how media habits developed during years of a two-party political system that generated one-party governments die hard. That makes today’s speech by Nick Clegg on tax policy a smart move, turning those habits from a [...]
Nick Clegg returns to income tax
Later this morning, Nick Clegg will be giving a speech to the Resolution Foundation in which, after recent talk about wealth taxes, he is returning to the topic of income tax cuts. More specifically, speeding up the progress towards a basic income tax allowance of £10,000 whilst keeping the 50p rate. This is of course closely [...]
Promising signs ahead of next Queen’s Speech
There wouldn’t normally appear to be much of a connection between private universities and House of Lords reform, but it is there in the process details of today’s news about the government dropping its plans for a bill to allow the creation of new private universities from the forthcoming Queen’s Speech. It makes for good [...]
And lo, Nick Clegg talks about fairness in a time of austerity
In my earlier post about Nick Clegg’s interview on the Andrew Marr show I speculated: I suspect Nick Clegg went into the interview wanting to talk in some detail about his vision of fairness in a time of economic austerity as each time he half got going on such a topic it sounded like there [...]
Andrew Marr bids for record-breaking number of different topics in one interview
I wonder if somewhere deep in the BBC there is a target for how many different topics must be asked about in political interviews each month and someone woke up this morning to realise that January’s quota is about to be missed. Or perhaps there was a typo in Andrew Marr’s contract and his BBC [...]
Wanted: a new form of capitalism
Look through the grand sweep of history and times of severe economic turmoil have often been accompanied by times of ideological ferment. That ferment has often thrown up the extreme and the nasty – think fascism or Communist dictatorship – which makes the absence of an equivalent post-financial crash ferment not wholly a bad thing. [...]
VIDEO: Nick Clegg calls for “John Lewis economy”
(For more on the story see the BBC report Nick Clegg plans more employee ownership.)
