Technology and comment
While I am delighted Lord Rennard is another member of the upper house who will support equal marriage, I’m not sure he should be communicating online like this. “@LizBarkerLords: 136 amendments mostly anti tabled for #equalmarriage Bill @libdemlords...
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The latest odds from Labrokes put Red Len McCuskey at 200-1 to be next Labour leader. At even shorter odds are union advocate Owen Jones, and HuffPo Political Director, and Ed Miliband supporter, Mehdi Hassan. Why would Len bother running for the leadership,...
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Guido Fawkes has managed to get hold of Ed Miliband’s notes for Prime Minister’s Questions today. It’s clear from the notes that Miliband was expecting the pasting on party funding he got today. What’s interesting though is that in only two and bit pages...
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Former major Tory donor Lord Ashcroft is using his Twitter account to cause trouble once again. Australian Labour Party was about 12 points behind the Liberals. Changed leader Gillard to Rudd. Now 2 points behind!! Interesting — Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft)...
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Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, and Lib Dem colleague Julian Huppert have been nominated for the Internet Service Provider Associations Internet Hero of the Year award. The nomination comes after both led opposition against the Communications Data Bill...
Read moreIn tech circles it’s become rather the done thing to decide that you need to have a social media break, and switch off for a designated amount of time. After that, the rest of us get to hear all about it. Lucky us. It started with The Verge’s Paul Miller...
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Mark Pritchard: "A lot of MPs take a paycut [when they come in to Parliament] particularly on the Conservative benches" — PoliticsHome (@politicshome) July 1, 2013
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Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg was attacked when speaking to a local blog about the area and the run up to the 2015 election. Thankfully, the attacker was only Clegg’s young son, who was eager to get his hands on some candy floss that he had been promised!...
Read moreLabour MP and deputy chairman Tom Watson, is the most followed MP by journalists, while BBC News Political Editor Nick Robinson is the most followed journalist by MPs. Portland Communications have assembled the data, which Paul Waugh (the third most followed...
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