I think it’s particularly difficult if your fame comes from being a disruptor and a revolutionary. Picasso’s pieces are not beautiful examples of the artist’s craft, they’re arresting and challenging… (View Post)

Cautious line would probably have been best. You never know what’s going to come out next. To be fair his full comments, rather than the excerpts, are not an endorsement of the tax error/dodging and … (View Post)

We’re a liberal party, not a libertarian party. That means we weigh up the harm of infringing on civil liberties against the harm caused by the thing being regulated. It’s why the Lib Dems also don’t… (View Post)

The party has decided on an approach of constructive opposition as a way of seeming like the grown ups. It’s probably on balance worked up to now, because there have been enough visible differences (… (View Post)

The multiparty polling we’ve got at the moment does make things harder to predict. I’m still a fan of using RefCon vs LLG as a proxy for what would historically have been Lib-Lab vs Con. That latest … (View Post)