Here is part three of our exclusive Paddy Ashdown interview. Take a look at part one and two. That’s a good answer. In your diaries you are clear about how close you were to Labour before and after the ’97 election, and that PR was the price of coalition. Given that the Lib Dems eventually …
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Dec 22
Exclusive: Paddy Ashdown On Clegg, The Tories, The Liberal Democrats & The NHS
Part two of our Interview with Paddy Ashdown. Here he talks about politics. Part three will be up tomorrow. Let us know what you think. Part one, where he talks about writing and his books, is here. Do you mind if I ask you some political questions as well? No, go on. Would you prefer …
Dec 22
Exclusive Paddy Ashdown Interview: On His Books
Paddy Ashdown has been a Royal Marine, the leader of the Liberal Democrats for eleven years, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is a life peer in the House of Lords. On top of that he has written 8 books, with the 8th coming out on the 5th of June. I can’t wait as …
Jan 26
Words For The Wounded Writing Prize Closes On 11 March
Words for the Wounded writing prize closes on 11 March. Why on earth do three grannies (two shown above) throw themselves out of a plane, strapped to a fit young man, hoping their parachutes open? Well, OK, the fit young man is a bit of a clue. But seriously, why? The reasons lie in the …
Aug 01
Richard Wright is On Tanget
As the great Willie Nelson once told us “on the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again”. That man spoke a lot of sense in that song but he also smoked a lot of cannabis apparently, so take anything he says with a slight pinch of salt. I know I do. …