Technology and comment
Lib Dem conference in Brighton last weekend started with a day of discussion between parliamentarians, ministers, and leaders of the tech/SME world. The day was chaired by games God Ian Livingstone, from Eidos. Attendees raised concerns over lack of finance,...
Nick Clegg will face party members in a question and answer session from Lib Dem Conference. He is likely to face questions on secret courts, the economy…and maybe even onesies!
In the tech industry there is an ongoing debate about having all male panels at events, which is beginning to filter into the world of politics. The debate kicked off today after a few of us attended a fringe on social media in politics at Lib Dem conference...
Never one to miss an opportunity, Labour peer John Prescott has decided to use his twitter feed to crack jokes about the Lord Rennard scandal. #CallClegg on @lbc973. He’ll answer all your non-specific calls, forget the conversations & then blame Danny...
Lovely Margot James features, but we also have to put up with Matthew Oakshott and Salma Yaqoob.
Another slightly oddly timed announcement comes out of the coalition today, this time from the Liberal Democrat side. Leader Nick Clegg has announced that he will conduct a radio phone-in programme for half an hour every week. The broadcast will go out...
Apparently their candidate won, too! According to The Telegraph, the former military dictatorship in Burma used The West Wing as a guide to how to be a democracy!
In today’s Independent on Sunday there is a very odd piece on sexual liberation. It shows how since 1963 society has become more free loving, and less hung up on sex and sexuality. It also notes how we in Britain, and the rest of the Western world, are...
Since publishing the list of Labour MPs who back an in/out EU referendum yesterday I have been in touch with the Labour press office about the differing opinions of party leader Ed Miliband and policy chief Jon Cruddas on the issue. The press office confirmed...
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net Apparently Labour Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbot told BBC News: “We wouldn’t have cut spending on the NHS which is what the Government has done”. She event...
Charlotte just checked in @ Southbank Centre (London, United Kingdom)
Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has issued a withering retort to Miliaband and Ball’s economic nonsense. In a statement just released by the Lib Dems, Alexander has condemned the two Eds for being “rather late to...
Reports are continuing to emerge of the multiple explosions that occurred on the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I am trying to put together many of the news that is coming together on social media and the Boston Police Scanner. The Commentator...
Labour 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...
Sign up to the Despatch Box, the new weekly political e-magzine from digitalpolitico.net The world has finally be given the delightful news that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to have a child. It’s all very exciting, as the … Continue reading...
Mary Ann Sieghart has a fantastic column in the Independent today, laying out the huge significance of the lack of women in the Lobby (the body of journalists that report on the House of Commons.) Some of the stats are truly woeful – only one in five...
In the US they have finally finished counting the election results and, joy of joys, losing Republican Mitt Romney finished on 47%. If you need reminding why this is significant, on the campaign trail Romney was filmed saying: “There are 47 percent of...
Mid-Term Review – The Coalition – Together in the National Interest
Bozier accuses Mensch of “covering her back” after his arrest bit.ly/14uMmHr “She pushed me over the edge of a cliff” — Josh Halliday (@JoshHalliday) January 30, 2013
Today it was rather nice to see two remarkable women given rather a high profile by the mainstream media. Interestingly, it was via the same newspaper – The Times. They weren’t politicians or pop stars, but two talented women who are very good at what...
Here are the Labour MPs who have signed the People’s Pledge calling for an in/out referendum. In other words, a list of MP’s who directly oppose their leader Ed Miliband’s position on this issue: Ronnie Campbell (Blythe Valley) Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire)...
The debate on the Benefits Uprating Bill is well underway, and a small band of Liberal Democrats are rebelling against the 1% rise. Some of these used Twitter to announce and clarify their position on the bill, and the same name appear across the blogosphere,...
The Lib Dem Leader is preparing for his first weekly phone in show on LBC – 0845 60 60 973.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has used the first day proper of 2013 to try and take economic battle to Labour once again. He has an op-ed piece in The Times(£) in which he says: The Labour leadership continue to complain about the coalition’s approach,...
I launched a blog at this domain a while ago, it was my first introduction to blogging really, and got me completely hooked on the format. I closed it to start digitalpolitico.net, focussing on tech in politics, but because of that I’ve also started writing...
