Technology and comment
This glorious piece of photography came not from Hames’ recent trip to the Middle East, but from his constituency. I can only apologise for not posting it when he originally tweeted it a year ago. Thanks to @kavya_kaushik for RTing today! Who says I’m...
Got a bad feeling about this….
President Barack Obama has been sworn in for his second term. Obama and VP Joe Biden were sworn in at a small private ceremony, to keep with the constitutionally set date of January 20th. The public inauguration will take place tomorrow.
Ed Balls loves to make his flatline gesture every time the Chancellor speaks. However, Mark Thompson has crunched the data and created this graph, that shows how the Coalition have a far fairer tax system than the 13 years of Labour government. As Mark...
When oh when oh when are politicians going to realise the internet is public, that people can see their stupidity? Today’s latest internet idiot is Lib Dem MEP Sir Graham Watson, who decided this was an appropriate contribution to the debate on Algeria...
We’ve finally, finally, approached the eve of David Cameron’s Europe speech. It’s all written on bits of paper and everything. With the ongoing hostage crisis in Alegria, this is beginning to look more and more ill informed. We have a situation in which...
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,...
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...
Tory MP for Hendon Matthew Offord asks in Commons whether Government support for gay marriage means it will permit polygamy next. Oh dear. — James Chapman (Mail) (@jameschappers) December 10, 2012 bob stewart not quite on same page as maria milller tho…....
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net As anyone following the recent news will know, there has been some terrible news coming out of Belfast recently, as violence has reared its ugly head once again. You...
Loks like the ‘blackbusters’ intern is back. It’s Landale.
So, it’s happened again. Those terrible free market liberterian types have rigged the Lib Dem Voice poll, handing victory to Sam Bowman of the Adam Smith Institute. Teeheee Succeeding the IEA’s Mark Littledwood, Bowman was in the leader from the beginning,...
The Channcellor is up, giving his Autumn Statement.
Tomorrow the UKs Open Data Institute will formally open, a year after Chancellor George Osborne announced it in the previous Autumn Statement. In addition to the formal Ministerial launch, the ODI will host an open house session where members of the public...
After a rather dispiriting couple of days, there is finally some evidence of senior Lib Dems are remembering how to be liberal. Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne is apparently standing fast within government against the illiberal idea of minimum alcohol...
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net Yesterday the highlight of the House of Commons timetable was the debate on the Leveson Report. However, there was something else of significance on the agenda too....
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net Yesterday the highlight of the House of Commons timetable was the debate on the Leveson Report. However, there was something else of significance on the agenda too....
Despite having been in Government since the Coalition’s formation, first in the Treasury, then as Transport Secretary, and now International Development Secretary, Justine Greening has never yet been on Twitter. That’s all changed today though: Hello,...
Well, almost exactly where we thought we would. It’s close, really close. We’ve heard that key states like Virginia, Ohio, and Florida are still too close to call. Significantly, Americans seem to have grasped the seriousness of the election and turned...
Cameron making one of most important decisions of his Premiership without having faintest reason why, let alone where he wants it to end — Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret) January 22, 2013
The agenda for Liberal Democrat Conference in March has been released today. Spring conference isn’t normally that fiery, so you things can easily slip under the radar, particularly the typically dull constitutional amendments. One about triggering a...
A picture says a thousand words.
Former Parliamentary candidate Jo Shaw yesterday used a platform against secret courts to resign from the Lib Dems. I’m pretty furious Jo was made to feel like she had to make this choice. I used my diary at politics.co.uk to discuss what went on in...
…it’s their paymasters too. Thanks to LY co-chair Kavya Kaushik for spotting this one.
Before today Chris Huhne had seemed to be cloaked in a sense of invincibility. He was the self-made millionaire, the man who ran for the leadership twice but who remained key to his opponent, the person who first suggested coalition with Conservatives,...
