If there’s a problem with the Unspoken Constitution its that it barely qualifies as satire. The shenanigans surrounding MPs’ expenses, Carter-Ruck’s single handed attempt to rewrite the UK constitution to favour their client Trafigura and this torrid little paper sneaked out by the Ministry of Justice today (which patiently explains why Royal Prerogative powers are,… Continue reading You can’t be a half-iconoclast
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++ 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 control of the media agenda, but events rather got ahead of me. There I was, doing my domestic… Continue reading ++ EXCLUSIVE: Clegg and Cable quit PoliticsHome’s Phi100 ++
Nick Clegg’s angry dolphin
Clegg has come up with a great Cleggism today: “ferocity with a purpose.” I think it’s actually the first genuinely candid thing he’s said all week. What he’s basically saying is that all this talk about “savage” cuts and doom and gloom as been a calculated attempt to wrong foot the party and “drag” (his… Continue reading Nick Clegg’s angry dolphin