Nick Clegg's novel

Many thanks to Paul Walter for flagging up this Pendennis item about the Lib Dem leader in today Observer:

After Cambridge, he wrote a novel. "It was a classic, late-adolescent outpouring of slightly maudlin, melancholy, pretentious thoughts," he says, "about an old man sitting in a room alone, once a powerful figure in the society, but now abandoned by everyone."

Unfortunately Paul had to spoil things by quoting the newspaper's wholly unfounded conclusion:

And they still claim he did not plan the demise of Ming Campbell...