Technology and comment
In a busy news day, the least surprising ‘news’ is that Jo Swinson is a firm advocate of equal marriage: It’s probably the last video of their succesful YouTube campaign that Coalition for Equal Marriage will upload before tomorrow’s debate. What an apt...
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...
Spot on use of Google Ads from the Lib Dem team in Eastleigh. Simple, but very effective.
The current edition of Liberator magazine features a rather mocking picture of Education minister David Laws on the front cover: Haha it’s because he’s a Tory…geddit…. I don’t mean to have a sense of humour failure, but would the weirdy beardies of ‘The...
The Social Liberal Forum, unsurprisingly, don’t seem to like competition. The arrival of a new membership organisation within the Liberal Democrats seems to have upset them, but today the co-chair of the SLF rather over egged it: The rather daft comment...
The Daily Telegraph have today become the latest newspaper to announce they are going behind a paywall. Readers can get 20 articles a month for free, then they have to pay £1.99 to continue reading. Alternatively, you could just sign up for a years subscription...
Former Tory MP Louise Mensch wants to show a different side with new blog. The former MP for Corby has announced that she is starting a fashion blog. Mensch was always considered a parliamentary glamour-puss, but says was “forced to confront my hideous...
The Cabinet Office has today migrated to the government’s single gov.uk domain. The Cabinet Office is one of the more unsexy, but critical departments, and is vital to making the Whitehall machinery run. It is currently occupied by ney government figures...
Guido Fawkes has launched a campaign to try and counter the moves towards blog censorship that were put out in the Royal Charter passed on Monday. The truth is this that the Leveson agreement was written in a rush, with little consideration of how the...
There was always likely to be a Twitter gaffe today, and you might have thought it would come form George Osborne’s new account. There was even a question about Twitter in PMQs, warning the Chancellor of the perils of the social network. Perhaps those...
The latest YouGov/Sun tracker post this morning is CON 30%, LAB 41%, LD 13%, UKIP 11%. While 13% clearly isn’t fantastic, particularly given that the Lib Dems with 57 MPs and UKIP with no MPs are just two percent apart, it does give the Lib Dems their...
At Lib Dem conference in Brighton there are seminars on staying out of jail. These sessions are named in the agenda: Ok they are about election law, but given the circumstances, some renaming probably was in order.
Alistair Campbell had some advice for what Rupert Murdoch should use recent Sun recruit Louise Mensch for: “@chalongcircle: .Wouldnt be suprised if @louisemensch turned up on page 3 next”> great idea @rupertmurdoch sort it out — Alastair Campbell (@campbellclaret)...
Over on The Wall I’ve blogged about the new iteration of best selling android app Swiftkey. The UK company have launched Swiftkey flow, which basically allows you to type whole phrases just by sliding in between words, and it’s all use the personalised...
It is rather telling of the age we are that something as epic as Rand Paul’s 12 hour filibuster gets condensed into 120 seconds of soundbites, but worth watching. via Mashable
Sexual harassment allegations around former Chief Executive Lord Chris Rennard has made this another miserable week for the Liberal Democrats. It’s fair to say that few in the Westminster bubble were hugely surprised when the allegations against Chris...
Quite ‘analogue’ I know, but Chris Huhne’s trial starts tomorrow, and I will try and blog (and maybe even tweet) as much as a rules allow.
This traffic warden clearly isn’t a Farage fan
Let me say this out loud, ’cause I wanna get it straight in my head. You’re saying that Mr. Blonde was gonna kill you, then when we got back, he was going kill us, take the satchel of diamonds, and scram. I’m right about that, right? That’s correct?...
Yesterday Owen Jones quite deservedly won the Best Young Writer award at the inaugural Paddy Power/Total Politics Political Book Awards. The prize money was donated by Lord Ashcroft, so Owen decided to tweet during the award ceremony he was giving it...
Black Ops: Declassified is the version of the Call of Duty franchise designed for Playstation’s portable Vita platform. It is set in the Cold War, as you take the role of the American agents taken on a variety of ‘commie bastards’ in Vietnam, Russia,...
Last night Sony announced the launch of the Playstation 4, and today really should be all about discussing its implications across gaming and entertainment. Consequently, I really, really didn’t want to have to write this post. I actually want to be talking...
