Work continues on One World Trade Center at ground zero. The proposed mosque would be two blocks north. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP
Is Nick Clegg the new Barack Obama? This ridiculous comparison is not as flattering as it would have been even a year ago when the president's liberal halo was not as tarnished as it has since become.
But watching
Clegg handling his Q&A session at Microsoft this week and
listening to him talking about those 100 coalition days on Radio 4 as I type I think I detect a lofty rationality – there are less kind descriptions – that fails to connect emotionally with the hopes and fears of too many voters in these dangerous times.
Trust, fairness, civil liberties, greater efficiency in a more balanced (also greener) economy, resumed social mobility and cheaper-but-better public services ... It is hard to quarrel with the vision of Britain that Clegg holds out for 2015. If only it were that easy. He'll learn.
Continue reading...
No comments:
Post a Comment