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CCDP is dead, but how did it get so far?
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has stepped in an rightly condemned Theresa May’s Communication Capabilities Programme, otherwise known as the ‘Snoopers Charter’, and...
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Sarah Teather’s latest tantrum
Recently sacked minister Sarah Teather has been throwing her toys out the pram the recently. The Lib Dem MP for Brent Central has consistently voted against the benefits cap, and made sure people know it. I don’t particularly agree with her on this,...
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Lords gives landslide in favour of equal marriage
Equal marriage has tonight taken another huge step towards becoming a reality, with a wrecking amendment defeated 390-148.
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Guardian opens a data driven coffee shop
The Guardian, which used to be a newspaper, has opened a data driven coffee shop in Shoreditch. Having checked the date, and confirmed it’s not April 1st, I am now utterly speechless. Luckily Alex Hern has summed it all up nicely here. Those sharks...
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Shapperoned
Tory party chairman hairman Grant Shapps and a colleague arrive at Downing Street yesterday evening. Thursday’s local elections will prove a major test for the Conservative campaigning infrastructure that Shapps overseas. Was the party chairman briefing...
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Ed Miliband – still not speaking human
Ed Miliband recently called veteran US campaigner Arnie Graf to help Labour’s ground war. Today Labour have sent an email from Graf, containing this video. The influence of the former Obama advisor is obvious, the video has an emotive single word title...
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Johnson gets into Number 10
The mop of blonde hair is unmistakable, and now it’s where it has always felt it should be, in 10 Downing Street. It has just been announced that the MP for Orpington, Jo Johnson, will head up the No. 10 Policy Unit, which has lost a couple of leaders...
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Anti equal marriage campaigners set up hate camp outside Parliament
As MPs debate equal marriage in the Commons today, anti equality campaigners have set up a hate camp outside Parliament. They are singing hymns, preaching and praying on a green outside parliament, as well as flyering passers by. While some members...
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Pinterest and Politics
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social networks at the moment, with the digital pin board boasting more than 48 million users. The site works like a digital pinboard. Users create an account (which can be done using your current Facebook or...
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Sometimes the internet is just too good
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Smiling assassin Gove skewers Oakshott and Cable
Education secretary Michael Gove has calmly stuck the knife into plotting by Vince Cable and Matthew Oakshott , while backing Nick Clegg into a corner. Gove told James Langdale that Lord Oakshott is “on manoeuvres” and that he was trying to “destabilise...
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Lefty men hate a powerful woman
As the debate in tribute to Baroness Thatcher begins in Parliament, Christine Odone looks at why the left hate powerful women. It has been noticeable that the most bile piled on the late Lady Thatcher has come from men, of a certain age and political...
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Lib Dem mag goes digital
I rather like the new Lib Dem magazine ‘Ad Lib’, not least because the stuff in it is actually interesting to party members. I was very pleased when Editor in Chief Phil Reilly tweeted me to let me know that the magazine had gone digital. Helen Duffett...
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Soho has lots of queens, and now its got a Baroness
Today lastminute.com founder, and Government digital tzar, Martha Lane Fox, was enthroned as a Baroness. Lane Fox will take the title Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho in the City of Westminster, and will sit on the cross benches. She is the youngest female peer...
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Sky report Rohan Silva has quit Downing Street
Sky are this evening reporting the departure of Rohan Silva from Downing Street. Mr Silva has helped develop the Government’s economic growth strategy City Editor Mark Kleinman reports: Mr Silva is understood to have held talks about taking up a role...
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Galloway welcomes leader of terrorist organisation
Bradford West MP George Galloway has welcomed the new leader of Hamas, an organisation constitutionally bent on the destruction of Israel. Congratulations to Khaled Mishaal on his re-election as leader of Hamas. Onward to Palestinian unity! — George...
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Hacked Off Hugh Grant breaks Leveson recommendations
Until recently this country was being ruined by terrible tabloids and their journalists, so thank goodness we had Hugh Grant and his mates in Hacked Off to save us. Except, as Mark Wallace so accurately points out, Hugh Grant doesn’t seem to like to play...
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No party Leader voted Leveson
On Monday Parliament voted to bring in exemplary damgages, as recommended by Leveson, as part ofthe Crime and Courts Bill. To try and make some sense of the mess created by the Royal Charte I have been going through the Hansard record of Monday’s debate...
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Gove and Laws – the definition of coalicious
Coalicious has made it into the urban dictionary. If this wasn’t enough, it’s description references the education dream team of Michael Gove and David Laws:
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[Budget 2013] Evening Standard appear to have the budget already
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[Budget 2013] George Osborne joins Twitter to help prevent another omnishambles
Chancellor George Osborne has used budget day to join Twitter. The Chancellor now tweets from the account @george_osborne, (@georgeosborne is occupied by a comedy account,) and has posted one Tweet so far. Today I’ll present a Budget that tackles the...
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Secret courts vote could haunt Lib Dem leadership this weekend
After only seven Lib Dems voted against secret courts last night, there is a lot of anger in the party’s grassroots. This has been succinctly, and excellenctly, summed up by Mark Thompson, in a blog post today: I understand it is difficult for Lib Dem...
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Fox trots into the economic limelight
Liam Fox has delivered a speech on his economic vision for Britain, adding his voice to those putting pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron. Fox called for a freeze in capital gains tax, and stamp duty discounts for those under 30. He demanded a policy...
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Over 100 Lib Dems sign not to secret courts letter
A letter against secret courts, being debated today, signed by over 100 Lib Dem members, appears in today’s Daily Mail. The Justice and Security Bill runs a coach and horses through fair trial guarantees which have been part of our country’s constitution...
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Blogging against secret courts
As secret courts enter the House of Commons, many bloggers are highlighting why the illiberal measure must not pass. Richard Morris asks Lib Dem MPs to remember all those activists who bust a gut in Eastleigh, and vote how the membership feel. Caron...