The unholy alliance of big government and Big Tech

I had forgotten all about Sir Nick Clegg. In 2015, Britain’s deputy prime minister led his Liberal Democrats to a spectacular electoral wipeout, going from 57 members of Parliament to eight. Two years later, he lost his own Sheffield constituency and disappeared — or so we thought — from public life.

But he was back last week as the vice president of Facebook, explaining why the company had “removed a number of ads from Donald Trump.”