Debate Round 1

Debate Round 1

So, the first debate is over, and as widely predicted, Clegg won the air war convincingly, proving that a well thought-out campaign message means nothing as long as you’re not the leader of the Conservative or Labour parties. In my eyes, Cameron lost out by not...

Kaminskigate

I had a protracted Twitter conversation with @ijclark last evening about Micha? Kaminski, the leader of the new anti-federalist European Parliamentary group. The main bone of contention seems to be the allegation that Mr. Kaminski is an anti-semite and, by extension,...

Mandelson used to be much better at this

Peter Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Lord of the Realm, used to be much better at the smear-and-run stuff. This week he’s seizing on the opportunity to attack Tory backbench MEP Daniel Hannan as some sort of crypto-racist and crypto-facist. Mandelson, the...