Tag Archives: bbd news

Caron Lindsay

My first appearance on the proper BBC1 News – “Not perfect – but in the circumstances we’ve done the best we possibly could”

By Caron Lindsay | Sun 9th March 2014 - 10:15 pm

Late at night at that delightfully random end of Conference Glee Club, in between The Land and The 12 days of Coalition (doesn’t Gareth Epps look like he’s going into a wee trance when he sings “B***** all?”, I checked my phone to see if there was a goodnight text from my family. There wasn’t, but there was one from the BBC, asking if I’d do an interview with political correspondent Vicki Young on the Coalition’s record and Nick Clegg’s speech.

Linda Jack and Caron Lindsay on BBC NewsI thought I might as well go for it, expecting it to go out on the news channel at 3am as most of my media stuff seems to end up. I was told to go to a cafe near the Minster for 10 am and that I’d be on with my friend Liberal Left’s Linda Jack.

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged and | 28 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • PM
    " ‘Full-on Rejoin’ could boost our anaemic growth by reversing the 6% hit on GDP caused by Brexit." The 6% works out as approximately 1% for e...
  • Nick Hopkinson
    Labour has yet to steal our pro-European clothes. They remain committed to their Brexit red lines - the leadership has advocated a clear Growth and Defence Part...
  • expats
    @David Allen 12th Nov '26 - 5:37pm............The senior partner in a coalition can usually completely screw the junior partner, as Cameron did to Clegg...........
  • Chloe
    The volatility of US politics in the mid terms. Obama lost 63 in 2010 - an historic high & Clinton lost 54 in the 90's - both went in to win the presidency ...
  • Jana
    It is amazing how things change in US politics. It was a Republican President - Abraham Lincoln - who set about ending slavery in the USA, fiercely opposed by D...