Last Night’s Question Time (15.07.10)
In uncharacteristic fashion, last night’s Question Time from Bexhill-on-Sea proved a rather undignified affair to behold. It certainly made for particularly irritable viewing at times as David Dimbleby struggled to maintain control of proceedings while shadow health secretary Andy Burnham and Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude squabbled like spoilt children from his left and right flanks respectively. Read Full
The Guardian Backs Lib Dems For 2010 Election
To some, the day was always coming. The Guardian in an editorial published on its website today, set to appear in tomorrow’s edition of the paper, has announced it now backs Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats in the forthcoming UK general election.
The move will undoubtedly anger some readers. Those who shared the paper’s seemingly unflinching support for Labour’s progressive politics will feel shafted by this change of allegiance, but one gets the sense The Guardian was itching to make this marriage sooner. Read Full