It's obvious where the Lib Dem leader is heading with his new look – the face of stone, the spiky, centre-parted hair: Nick Clegg is turning into Simon Cowell.
Can an upper-lip reduction procedure be far behind? Why would he do such a thing? With only his rivals, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, as tonsorial role models, perhaps he fancied emulating someone with real power.
Or maybe he just wanted to look like a winner – Cowell, after all, wins X Factor every year.
