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Has a change of government changed the political blogosphere?
21st September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
In the run up to this year’s General Election there was much talk of how a change of government might lead to a change in the political blogosphere. It has had a right wing bias from its inception in the sense that, amongst the most-read, more of them have been right of centre in their output and authors’ political affiliations than centrist or anything further to the left. The oft-cited...
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Bigotgate
28th April 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Finally our gaffe thirst has been quenched, and fairly spectacularly. There's no point me writing it all out here as it's already been copied verbatim around the internet.
Iain Martin - BBC News - Sky News - Iain Dale (see here too) - you get the idea.Whatever you might think of someone who says, "All these Eastern Europeans what are coming in - where are they flocking from?", she is Labour... -
Labour’s manifesto met by headscratching and crowdsourcing
12th April 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
Labour launched their manifesto today. There's no point in me repeating much of what's already been said, but I would recommend these analyses: Guido Fawkes, Nick Robinson, Adam Boulton. Also, have a look at the real thing, especially the video, which is... er, well, let me hand over to Sky's Glen Oglaza for a moment.
I am trying to be less partisan on this blog for various reasons, but today presents... -
Politics of Parody Redux
11th February 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
As expected, Labour have launched their own poster. I use 'launched' loosely as it only exists online because, as mentioned previously, they have no money. But their problems go further than that. Here are some off the cuff reasons as to why Labour's poster is, simply, rubbish.
1. While their mockery of the Tories' first poster was entirely valid, they have learnt nothing from it. The Cameron NHS poster was very... -
Alan Duncan’s irrational behaviour
13th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So Alan Duncan has put his foot in it again. What to do with a politician who gets caught speaking his mind? There are several issues being vacuum-packed into one in the representations this story is receiving across various media. Duncan defenders have pounced on the argument that Heydon Prowse's behaviour was ungentlemanly because he was invited for a drink in Westminster by Duncan and used the opportunity to secretly record him. "What kind...
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