Technology and comment
Andy Murray is going for grand slam glory, but Marr is features an interview with Nick Clegg, and the Sunday Politics follows the tennis. Come on Tim!
I was genuinely proud when I was asked to contribute a piece to the new Lib Dem magazine Ad Lib a few weeks ago. When my friend, and Editor-in-Chief, Phil Reilly had told me what he was planning to replace Lib Dem News with I thought it was a really exciting...
The Gentleman of the Lobby have traipsed to Amsterdam to see David Cameron deliver a speech, which due to the ongoing terrible situation in Algeria has been postponed. Now, of course, I don’t want to make light of something that is actually quite serious,...
Today’s online furore over Julie-Burchill’s-column-in-support-of-Suzanne-Moore’s-column in so many way typifies what I hate about the internet, and Twitter in particular. Something that was meant to increase our freedom of speech, our ability to share...
Despite supposedly being overtaken by the slick and quick Twitter, blogging still remains key to political discussion. But when do bloggers become journalists? I started thinking about this the other day, after I was initially declined a media pass for...
The video games industry has been lobbying for Games Tax Relief for a while now, and the Chancellor agreed it needs to come in. However, its scheduled arrival has been delayed by the European Commission. Yesterday, Dr. Richard Wilson, who is chief exec...
The Guido Fawkes blog is 10 years old, and has risen to notoriety and prominence over that time. Paul Staines founded the blog having declared himself bankrupt. Along with Iain Dale, he essentially invented the political blogosphere as we recognise it...
Over on politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt has written a hilarious account of his trip to Eastleigh. “It makes for a messy, baffling scene, like Glastonbury for hideous politics people. Spotty teenagers hand out leaflets for the Tories inbetween cigarettes,...
Huhne 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...
The battle to replace Chris Huhne in Eastleigh is over. Have the Lib Dems held on?
The alleged Wikileaks leaker, Private First Class Bradley Manning, has failed in his attempts get his case dismissed. It is emerging that a judge has deemed the delays to Manning’s case understandable, and that he will face trial on June 3rd.
Miliband, Clegg, and Cameron have all delivered their ‘big immigration speech’, but given how connected the world is now it seems bizzarre that anyone still cares. Call me a member of the metropolitan elite, but one of the things I think about least of...
From DP 6/2/13: http://digitalpolitico.net/2013/02/06/team-lembit-try-and-make-it-easier-to-clear-out-clegg/ From the Sunday People 17/2/13 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lembit-opik-plotting-oust-lib-1715061 And tomorrow’s Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9913742/Lib-Dems-want-new-rules-to-sack-Nick-Clegg.html...
Eastleigh proved that the Lib Dems know how to run a devastating ground war, and Liberal Youth were key to that, but should they contribute to the fight for MPs who voted against equal marriage? I got thinking about this after reading Emma Burnell’s...
Eastleigh proved that the Lib Dems know how to run a devastating ground war, but should Liberal Youth contribute to the fight for MPs who voted against gay marriage? I got thinking about this after reading Emma Burnell’s brilliant take on Labour Student’s...
Cathy Newman, who ran Channel 4′s investigation into Lord Rennard, has explained that the story was ready to go before Chris Huhne food down and triggered the by-election. She has blogged that when she interviewed one of the women making the allegations...
The Sunday People have today made the shocking revelation that Lembit Opik is trying to make it easier to unseat Nick Clegg. Of course, if they had read Digital Politico they would have known that ages ago. If they subscribed to the weekly Despatch...
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...
When the iPad mini was released, it seemed Apple was cannibalising it’s own sales just because it could. Then yesterday I held one on the Apple store, and my opinion completely flipped. Not only is the iPad mini beautiful (obviously), its is light, lovely...
The start of the Eastleigh by-election campaign has shown the perks, and problems, campaign emails. The battle to replace Chris Huhne as MP for Eastleigh is well under way now, and the parties are trying to rally the troops into action. From what I saw...
The Sunday morning papers make grim reading for the Lib Dems…and George Osborne.
Liberal Conspiracy have posted an extract from an open letter by the historian Anthony Seldon, which calls on Ed Balls, to resign as Shadow Chancellor. “Without you, Labour could present itself as a clean party, free of the factionalism and brutalism...
With the Eastleigh by-election to replace Chris Huhne in full flow, it seemed a good opportunity to start to look at some of the top digital tools available to campaigners. Hootsuite A brilliant social dashboard that allows you to push content to multiple...
The Electoral Commission have released party funding figures for UK political parties, showing that Labour continue to rack up substantial debts and to be reliant on union donations. The figures relate to October 1st 2012 to December 31st 2012 (Q4)...
Sony is preparing to do a major playstation announcement, which many to believe to be announcing the Playstation 4 – it would be the first new console in years.
