Tag Archives: Nick Clegg

Lucky Generals, Helen Calcraft’s new agency, is trying to make a name for itself (it can’t be making money) by handling the Labour Party. Labour should win next year’s general election in the UK by a distance (the Euro elections ...

Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote ...

I believe it was Virgin Records who used to make a fortune out of those useless compilation records ‘the best pile of old tat in the UK – ever’ or some such. And Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg (also deputy ...

Before the last UK general election the Liberal Democrats signed a ‘pledge’ not to increase student tuition fees. And then promptly agreed to them being tripled followed a Labour-instigated review by the ludicrous Lord Browne, former head of BP who ...

For a couple of years at least the UK media markets have been defying gravity, showing reasonable growth (in the circumstances) despite a wider economy that’s stagnant at best. Over the weekend UK PM David Cameron (pictured) will be hobnobbing ...

One minute UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is supporting (reluctantly-ish) his boss PM David Cameron in the latter’s decision to wield his veto to keep Britain out of something or other at the EU (nobody seems sure exactly what), ...

There’s no-one more free market than Tim Bell, Lord Bell as he now is, whose attitude to taking on PR clients at his main PR business Bell Pottinger, is that of the London barrister who compares himself to a taxi ...

They do say that when you when you get a gaggle of economists together they won’t agree about anything: who they are, what they are, where they are and what they just ate with their coffee. The Western world has ...

Ever since the crash of 2008 the world’s bankers, many of whom have pitched their tents in the UK, have had more verbal ordure heaped on them than any group of people since, well, the last religious martyrs in Western ...