Stephen Tall

LDVideo: Julian ‘most intelligent MP’ Huppert explains the Higgs boson to Andrew Neil

By | Thu 5th July 2012 - 10:25 am

Two seismic events occurred yesterday. First, the Higgs boson ‘God particle’ has probably been discovered by scientists at CERN. Then, even more extraordinarily, Andrew Neil had a good word to say for a Lib Dem MP, as Julian Huppert offered a succinct summary of why it matters…


(Available on the BBC website here.)

* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.

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3 Comments

  • John Dunn 5th Jul '12 - 12:14pm

    I too, am astonished.
    Like Andrew Neil concluded ” Amazed…… getting straight answers from a politician !!”.

  • Chris 5th Jul '12 - 12:29pm

    Andrew Neil’s intro was an interesting example of the way in which some media people are almost proud of being ignorant about science – down to mispronouncing the name of the particle as ‘bosun’.

  • lucas north 5th Jul '12 - 5:49pm

    Andrew Neil is great

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