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One news event that may have passed most people by last week was the election of Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democrats.The party, which was once Britain’s third largest, was decimated in May’s General Election, losing all but eight of its 57 seats, completing a brutal period of decline while it was in government alongside the Conservatives. The inquisition began the morning after Farron’s election when the BBC’s John Humphreys asked him if he would “seek advice from God when it came to making important policy decisions”. Farron accused Humphreys of focusing on “the shocking revelation that a...

Here’s the thing: I’m not particularly interested in what politicians do in their private lives. But if you make a public commitment to your wife and then ask people to keep out of your “private life” you’re sending mixed-messages. So when John Humphreys, the founder of the Australian Libertarian Society defended America’s sleazy Democrat, Anthony Weiner, in Defending the indefensible, my response was clear: I don’t care if he posed for Playgirl – that’s not the issue. If you cheat on your wife, the likelihood of cheating on people you don’t know is very high indeed, according to my reading...