Charlotte Henry

[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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Leveson and Hacked Off – the thing end of the wedge gets thicker

The 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...

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Tell me more about your belief in the free press.

A picture says a thousand words.  

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Crossing the rubicon – politicians discuss press regulation

In 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 not just Labour stealing Lib Dem ideas…

…it’s their paymasters too.   Thanks to LY co-chair Kavya Kaushik for spotting this one.

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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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Imagine if this was the Spectator’s cover?

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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Discussing the future of iDemocracy

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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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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