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A second tweet from Chancellor George Osborne Won’t be tweeting while I’m speaking so follow the Budget measures live @hmtreasury and @torytreasury — George Osborne (@George_Osborne) March 20, 2013
Read moreHuhne might be serving eight months in jail for perverting the course of justice, but there is something quite heart warming about this story from the Daily Mail: According to self-styled ‘Lord’ Eddie Davenport, who is serving nearly eight years for his...
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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...
Read moreThe campaign group Hacked Off returned to the Media Select Committee today, after yesterday’s announcement of a Royal Charter to regulate the press. Given they were in the room with Letwin, Miliband et al deciding the final deal,as confirmed by Labour...
Read moreIn late night Whitehall talks, a deal on implementing Leveson and regulating the press has been done. The very concept should terrify us. Never mind the vagaries of this Royally-Underpinned-Charter, or whatever it now is, or the fact that once again...
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…it’s their paymasters too. Thanks to LY co-chair Kavya Kaushik for spotting this one.
Read moreUntil 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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The current edition of the New Statesman features a cover with Angela Merkel, Adolf Hitler, and why Europe fears the Germans. Now, I rather like the New Statesman. It has good people working for it, and its blog and print output is always well written,...
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Douglass Carswell MP and Ben Duckworth mulled over the future of digital democracy, in a session chaired by journalist Heather Brooke at the University of East Anglia in London. Online politics is not just for young people, 83% of 38 degrees users are...
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