I don’t have time to make the point I want to make at any length, but Chris Berg reminds us that dynamic tension can be a good thing in government and is, I think absolutely necessary to really good government. He is optimistic about Clegg and Cameron in the UK and in their ability to deliver ‘liberal, conservative’ politics which is to say socially liberal, economically dry policy.  Time will tell, and those guys really do have some heavy weather to get through (though five years until the next election is a long time and – perhaps – time enough to allow the members of their party to allow their leaders to get through the political fire that they’re walking into). Read more »