Silly nonsense coming from the Kennedy camp: Sir Menzies is trying to reassure members who think he is too right-wing. Allies of Charles Kennedy suggested yesterday that Sir Menzies was more cautious than the former leader in opposing the Iraq war. Mr Kennedy’s former chief of staff, Dick Newby, told ITV’s Jonathan Dimbleby show that… Continue reading Iraq innuendo
Category: musings
Militant tendency
The Liberal Dissenter reminds me of a Mark Oaten quote in 2001: According to Oaten, the Lib Dems lack the symbolic dragons that Labour leaders have in the past found useful to slay… “We haven’t got a Clause Four, Militants or rot at the core of the party,” he says. “Oddly enough, if we did… Continue reading Militant tendency
Telling stories
I’ve more or less given up on my attempt to blog the Meeting the Challenge paper – I found it too rigid a structure around which to frame my thoughts. But I did get stirred up by the plenary session at yesterday’s conference about narrative (more about which you can read here). In short, I… Continue reading Telling stories