Nick Clegg in his own words – a different view
Yazan: Sara | 13 March 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Nick Clegg, Uncategorized
I used wordle.net to provide a different view of Nick Clegg’s closing speech to the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference.
Telegraph exclusive: NICK CLEGG DEFECTS
Yazan: Sara | 25 January 2011 | 2 Comments
Categories: newspapers, Nick Clegg
Ever since the coalition government was formed, political commentators and Labour hacks have been falling over themselves to suggest that it is only a matter of time until Nick Clegg defects to the Conservative Party. So the news in today’s Telegraph may have been simply the inevitable news that party members dreaded, as Clegg throws off his [...]
When the Guardian’s story literally doesn’t add up
Yazan: Sara | 02 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
Earlier today, I commented on an article in The Guardian entitled ‘Will the Liberal Democrats survive the coalition?’. Apart from the forced political commentary, there was another point which really annoyed me. In trying to make a case that Nick Clegg’s leadership had damaged the party’s finances, Andy Beckett states: ‘ in 2009 the Lib Dems received a [...]
The M42 and the meaning of life, the universe and everything
Yazan: Sara | 17 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: LibDems
An enormous warehouse in the West Midlands isn’t the place you would usually go to find the heart of the Liberal Democrats. And if ever the soul of the party, the real meaning of its existence, was to be discovered, surely it would be somewhere more romantic than just off the M42? But yesterday the [...]
Vote Clegg: get Maggie’s support?
Yazan: Sara | 26 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers, Nick Clegg, women
Yesterday both myself and Mark Pack blogged about the Daily Mail and other tabloids paying paparazzi to stalk Miriam Gonzalez Durantez as she shopped at Rigby & Peller. Today it appears that the Mail have had second thoughts and pulled the article from their web site – only to replace it with something even more odious – a [...]
The Daily Mail are pants
Yazan: Sara | 25 April 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: newspapers
What would you call someone who followed an attractive woman as she purchased underwear? In my book, that’s a pervert, but apparently it’s a Daily Mail reporter. According to the reporter, who is apparently too ashamed to give his/her name on the byline, ‘The Liberal Democrat leader’s Spanish-born spouse spent an hour-and-a-half in the famous [...]
Lord Tebbit’s praise for the Lib Dems’ tax plans
Yazan: Sara | 13 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, LibDems
In his blog post in today’s Daily Telegraph Lord Tebbit asks, “Why won’t the two main parties do anything about the madness of taxing the poor?’. “And I hate to say it, but only one party leader seems to have grasped that, if you construct a system where unskilled people are worse off by taking [...]
He loves me, he loves me not …
Yazan: Sara | 05 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives
So Dave can’t decide if he wants to reward marriage or not. Sounds like something he should have thought about more carefully before making romantic overtures to the LibDems! Seriously though, what’s so wonderful about marriage? Well speaking as someone who has been happily married for the past 16 years and who sees every sign of this [...]
School! Huh! What is it good for?
Yazan: sarabedford | 11 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: education
Following this week’s strikingly similar announcements by both Nick Clegg and David Cameron on their respective party’s education policy, debate seems to have taken off amongst LibDem activists. The main point of argument seems to be around the provision of ‘free’ schools on the successful Swedish model. Nick Clegg has long been a fan of [...]
A broadcaster, not a referee
Yazan: sarabedford | 27 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: BBC, Uncategorized
Many years ago in my youth, I became the youngest female football referee in the UK. And whilst I never eached the heights of Graham Poll, or one of my early colleagues, Phil Sharp, I certainly followed the unwritten rule of the game – a good referee is one that you don’t notice. Unfortunately in [...]
