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  • Has a change of government changed the political blogosphere?

    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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  • Finally, the party has started

    Finally, the party has started

    12th May 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this

    There was no point blogging over the last few days as either nothing or everything was happening. Now the dust is beginning to settle, things are becoming slightly clearer. A very neat deal has been done between the Lib Dems and the Tories. Several clever trade offs have been made: Osborne as Chancellor but Cable in the Treasury, Hague stays as Foreign Sec but Clegg gets to carve out his...

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  • Twitter claims its first scalp of the election

    Twitter claims its first scalp of the election

    9th April 2010 | 1 comments | 3 people like this

    It was always going to happen. Today Stuart MacLennan, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Moray (it's in Scotland), was sacked because of tweets he posted before he was selected. Quite brilliantly he is quoted as saying in the past, ""Iain Dale reckons the biggest gaffes will likely be made by candidates on Twitter - what are the odds it'll be me?"

    Obviously you'll be wondering what he said, so if you're...

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  • Alan Duncan’s irrational behaviour

    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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Clark Hogan-Taylor

Clark Hogan-Taylor

Inbetween shouting at the news and his unreliable coffee machine, Clark Hogan-Taylor will be satirising and commenting on today's political news.