moderniser

Six days before Christmas, you published a lettrer from me in which I wrote that the Blairite word moderniser is not a term that Liberal Democrats use in internal debate.

Lord Beard of Sandals Apologises 2006

Mr Clegg, a moderniser, is one of the small group of economic liberals attempting to get the party to accept a more "credible" policy on tax and spend, as he tells us himself.

Archive 2007-10-14 Newmania 2007

Mr Clegg, a moderniser, is one of the small group of economic liberals attempting to get the party to accept a more "credible" policy on tax and spend, as he tells us himself.

Another Posh Boy ? Newmania 2007

Judging from recent TV appearances the definition of a moderniser is someone who thinks they should do a political interview without wearing a tie.

Tieing up the Modernisers 2005

Judging from recent TV appearances the definition of a moderniser is someone who thinks they should do a political interview without wearing a tie.

Archive 2005-05-01 2005

James has long been sceptical about Cameron's claims to be a "moderniser" -- more sceptical, certainly, than many on the centre left, such as

New Statesman Jonathan Derbyshire 2010

First of all, if David Cameron, hitherto known as a moderniser, if of the centre-Right persuasion, why does he have to set out his wares for the right of the party.

Does he know what he is doing? Helen 2005

In one sense Lucilius might be called a moderniser, for he strove hard to enlarge the people's knowledge and views; but in another and higher sense he was strictly national: luxury, bribery, and sloth, were to him the very poison of all true life, and cut at the root of those virtues by which alone Rome could remain great.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

McDonald is particularly severe on the contradictions of the New Right's critique of the Sixties which Conservative 'moderniser's might have some sympathy toward; though they'd have to accept that the Sixties bashers, such as Keith Joseph, played an important role in furthering the free market 'counter-revolution'.

A book to read - Revolution in the Head 2008

It's interesting that although he is seen as a 'moderniser', he seems very antagonistic towards the so-called Notting Hill set.

Back on the Media 2005