As the snow settles on the ground and we find ourselves in the winter months, there are people running through the streets away from police. Whether they’re police or protestors, we just hope they take care, because any full-pelt, Hollywood-style sprinting could end tragically on the ice.
Today saw the third national protest against the proposed rise in tuition fees for university education, an issue that has sparked debate about whether the Liberal Democrat Party have reneged on their pre-election promises from their current position in the coalition government. Steve Richards, writing today in The Independent, discusses how David Laws’s new book 22 Days In May sheds light on the events that led to the unlikely paring of a Lib Dem - Conservative government.
‘The Liberal Democrat MP has written a brilliant, multilayered work of art in which nothing is quite what it seems.’
However much the weather improves (and, according to Carol from BBC Breakfast, it’s unlikely to very soon), the country is still left with a financial deficit that is bound to inspire more debates about the coalition and its methods for coping with the debt. As Steve Richards finds out, David Laws’s informed account of the early days of our current government contributes to the discussion and reading the book helps us understand those leading us through the blizzard.
22 Days In May by David Laws is available in paperback for £9.99 and e-book format for £4.60