Bagehot Pride after a fall

摘要

For a British politician, Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, takes an unusually rational view of how politics should function in his country. This is both a strength and a weakness.rnAn attachment to reason has its advantages, as Mr Clegg endures an extravagantly awful first anniversary of his decision to join the Conservative-led coalition government. Less Socratic figures might simply have stayed in bed.