So here’s an e-petition I won’t be signing

by Stephen Tall on July 3, 2012

It’s good that the rate-rigging of Barclays (and almost certainly other banks) has been exposed. It’s important that we have an inquiry — whether judge-led or parliamentary I have no particularly strong views either way. But then I came across (…)

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On Nick Clegg’s ‘labotomoy’, Andrew Neil’s dissonance & Matthew Parris’s skewering

by Stephen Tall on July 3, 2012

To the cloisters of Westminster Abbey last night for liberal think-tank CentreForum’s summer party (which lived up to its billing as a party, even if summer didn’t appear). Nick Clegg was guest of honour, and delivered a 10-minute tours d’horizons (…)

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