A quick link to this Times article by Libby Purves because

1. A quick misreading made me wonder what ‘taking it up the DVLA’ was
2. It describes Simon Hughes, il presidente del’liberal democrats, as ‘fiery’. He’s a nice bloke, sincere, earnest, entertaining, hardworking, and all the rest, but fiery…? Maybe by “fiery Lib Dem” she just means fiery, for a Lib Dem.
3. Well, I spose, the civil liberties angle is something that ought to be taken seriously, once we’ve all stopped laughing at fiery Lib Dems taking it up the DVLA.