Stephen Tall

Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest…

• Not just for Christmas? | The Waugh Room | | PoliticsHome
  .@paulwaugh spots Mid-Term Review’s framing picture: “It conjures up an image of a populace not waving but drowning” http://buff.ly/UExbts
• Forward, say Cameron and Clegg. But to where? – Comment – Voices – The Independent
  .@SteveRichards14: “For Cam & Clegg it’s full steam ahead but in a context in which both have almost no room to move.” http://buff.ly/VLY2PN
• Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel and John Brennan: Similar visions | The Economist
  Obama, Hagel & Brennan’s world-view: “complicated, messy + all too frequently impervious to the use of American power” http://buff.ly/VM5b2o
• The odds are (literally) against us – but is it over yet? – Lord Ashcroft Polls
  Hmm. Lord Ashcroft a little more convincing when talking polling numbers than bookies odds http://buff.ly/VM3Rgf
• The odds are (literally) against us – but is it over yet? – Lord Ashcroft Polls
  Lord Ashcroft: “The Lib Dems will almost certainly do better on the day than their poll numbers currently suggest” http://buff.ly/VM3LoF
• Open Europe blog: The case for bringing back some powers from Brussels… by Nick Clegg
  Useful reminder from @OpenEurope that Nick Clegg has long supported a reformed and liberal EU http://buff.ly/VKNBvG
• Borgen: season two, episodes one and two | Television & radio | guardian.co.uk
  Vicky Frost’s essential analysis > Borgen: season two, episodes one and two http://buff.ly/Zxdbdk
• Not the Treasury view…: Predictions for 2013: my answers to the FT Survey
  Jonathan Portes’ predictions for the economy in 2013 given “there is no ‘Plan A’ anymore” http://buff.ly/Zx8BMb
• BBC News – Banks agree minimum liquidity rules
  .@peston: Banks agree minimum liquidity rules http://buff.ly/Xcdxlu And, surprise, agree Govt-backed cash/securities are best liquid assets