Clegg has just written a political memoir, baldly called Politics. We are spoilt for choice when it comes to personal nadir: there’s the 2014 poll that reveals he is the least popular leader in modern British history; the occasion when his security guards told him to lie flat in his car to hide from protesters; the 2015 election, when the Lib Dems lost all but eight of their seats; and, my personal favourite, his then nine-year-old son Alberto walking around the supermarket singing the spoof song I’m Sorry, based on the apology his father issued after the coalition tripled tuition fees. Clegg recently revealed that Gove was responsible for leaking a story about a supposed conversation Clegg had with the Queen (with Gove present), in which she tore a strip off him for being so unquestioningly pro-European, and suggested she was a Brexiteer – a conversation Clegg insists never happened. “It was complete rubbish. I was lucky enough to be president of the privy council, so I had the huge honour of meeting the Queen pretty well monthly for five years. I don’t remember every conversation we had, but would I remember if I had received this tongue-lashing? Of course I would. And I don’t.” How does he know the story came from Gove? “The other source of the Sun’s story told me.” Of all our recent British political leaders, Clegg is the most bracingly European. He speaks fluent Spanish, Dutch, French and German. His half-Russian father, a descendant of Tsarist nobility, was a successful banker; his Dutch mother had lived in Indonesia, where she and her family were interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the second world war. Clegg attended Westminster public school, where he was a keen actor, appearing with Helena Bonham Carter in a production of The Changeling (she accidentally kicked him in the balls). He studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge university, where he appeared in a play about Cyrano de Bergerac under the directorship of Sam Mendes. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/03/nick-clegg-did-not-cater-tories-brazen-ruthlessness Nick Clegg has criticised Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman's "sneering" attitude towards politicians. The deputy PM said the presenter made a living off politics but treated all politicians as "rogues and charlatans". His comments follow Paxman's admission that he did not vote at a recent election because he had found the parties "unappetising". The presenter also called the Lib Dem tuition fees U-turn "the most blatant lie in recent political history". Jeremy Paxman said he agreed with some of Russell Brand's political analysis Mr Clegg said: "Here is a guy who gets paid a million pounds, thereabouts, paid for by taxpayers. He lives off politics and he spends all his time sneering at politics. "We know that politics is not perfect, but at the end of the day it is the way that we decide how you pay your taxes, how we support our hospitals, our schools, whether we are going to war or not, how we deal with climate change." He continued: "Of course it's sometimes unedifying but this idea that you can sneer at the whole thing, dismiss everybody as somehow being rogues and charlatans and say, 'Well, therefore I'm going to wash my hands of the whole thing,' I think is a total abdication of responsibility. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-24850921 A top Facebook executive said today that the social network will, as a rule, leave up posts from politicians that otherwise violate the company’s content standards. “It is not our role to intervene when politicians speak,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications, said at the Atlantic Festival in Washington. “That’s why I want to be really clear today — we do not submit speech by politicians to our independent fact-checkers, and we generally allow it on the platform even when it would otherwise breach our normal content rules.” Clegg, a former deputy prime minister in the U.K., said there are two exceptions when it comes to leaving up politician posts. One, he said, is when speech “can lead to real world violence and harm” and “endangers people.” He also said Facebook has “more stringent rules” for language in Facebook ads “than we do for ordinary speech and rhetoric.” “I know some people will say we should go further. That we are wrong to allow politicians to use our platform to say nasty things or make false claims,” Clegg said. “But imagine the reverse. Would it be acceptable to society at large to have a private company in effect become a self-appointed referee for everything that politicians say? I don’t believe it would be.” (or worse, wlet lying politicians do it) https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/facebook-nick-clegg-politicians-1509931