Madness and class war
2008-05-23 08:50:15
Schoolboy errors when it comes to mocking the posh plus what does the future hold for one Alan Milburn. Our round up of the political blogosphereDuncampaigning?
The last time the Tories won a by-election, Madness
’ House of Fun was top of the charts. Happily for Brown, parliamentary recess will spare him the trial of facing braying victors in the House, though it seems likely that the Conservativ
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Toffs and Foreigners
2008-05-16 03:47:21
By-election tactics are backfiring and Marxists are having their names cleared, this week on the blogsBy-Curious
The by-election in Crewe and Nantwich was causing a stir this week, whilst candidates were being slotted into place for the contest in the Henley-on-Thames seat vacated by Boris Johnson. Labour desperately need to hold Gwyneth Dunwoody's former constituency, but some activists vented th
Boris the banner
2008-05-09 06:18:58
A ban: not a whimper
The Boris
phere, that is to say the vocal libertarian bloggers who fizzed with hope for Boris Johnson, appeared a little sheepish this week - as the new Mayor of London kicked off his administration by banning alcohol on public transport. Leader of the pack Guido Fawkes initially bit his tongue, before soberly warning Boris that: "… if you go to Beijing to hob-nob [...]
Covering the coverage
2008-05-02 10:07:49
Our Best of the Politics blog blogger Paul Evans looks at the way the web affected coverage of the local and London mayoral electionsLabour pains
Cliches about the Beatles and miniskirts were being wheeled out, as Labour suffered its worst hammering at the polls since the 1960s - slipping to third place nationally, on just 24% of the vote. The Tories surged to 44%, while the Lib Dems experienced n
What was Spink really after?
2008-04-27 05:33:07
Creating a Spink
Perhaps encouraged by last week’s tittle-tattle about UKIP members getting laid, former Tory MP Bob Spink this week joined the anti-EU party, despite apparently having previously rubbished the suggestion. He now sits as their only MP in the Commons.
Rhetorically Speaking provided a little background on the charming Bob, painting a picture which he claims is:
“…possibly not t
UKIP's sexual partners
2008-04-20 05:36:53
Idol promises
It’s been another rough week for our esteemed premier. After taking a battering over China last week, his visit to America seems to have been overshadowed by the simulataneous touring of a Pontiff. And higher matters were exercising “religio-political” blogger Archbishop Cranmer. Noting Brown’s sign-off “thank you and God bless you all,” delivered at his appearance on Am
Loud and proud in China?
2008-04-11 04:24:26
Brown China
The week began with mounting outrage at the behavior of the Chinese government’s “flame attendants,” who had been tasked with ensuring the smooth passage of the Olympic torch through London on Sunday. The sight of these “security thugs” barking orders at Konnie Huq made a few blogger stomachs churn.
The decision of Aussie premier Kevin Rudd to speak out strongly against China
Henley. More Panama hats per capita...
2008-06-27 05:01:26
Strange revelations about an Oxfordshire town. Plus David Icke's political ambitions and Morgan Tsvangirai's wisdomHarvest of Thorns
The eyes of the world’s bloggers this week turned with swelling revulsion on the brutality, hunger and violence engulfing Zimbabwe. Widely promoted was the Friends of Zimbabwe blog, which has provided daily coverage of the ongoing crisis.
Bloggers from across Afric
Read more: Panama
Defamatory DD comment?
2008-06-20 08:25:49
Liberty XXX
It was the great foreign secretary Austen Chamberlain who claimed that our diplomats in China had often heard the curse “may you live in an interesting age”. And what a cursed age it is for our nation’s political classes – as Liberty chief Shami Chakrabarti (and as blogger Sadie has it, “winsome khol-eyed heroine”) threatened to sue a Labour Minister for flippantly suggesti
Token opposition
2008-07-11 06:01:44
To win back his seat, David Davis needed only to defeat a smokers' rights advocate and a man claiming to be the true Pope.Faith in the City
What is more interesting – tackling ingrained poverty or securing our beautiful liberties? Both get me warmed up, and likewise Britain’s bloggers seemed pretty turned on by both Haltemprice and Glasgow. Turning his attention to the by-election in Glasgow
How much for an erotic tale?
2008-07-04 04:51:09
Paul Evans suggests buying a friend some lager would be a better use of your wonga than coughing up for an Ali Campbell porn story. An average week in politics...Bevan Above
Walking past Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, I noted large numbers of Police officers and road cordons. It transpired that the church was hosting a service to mark the 60th Anniversary of the founding of NHS. It seems odd to b
Henley. More Panama hats per capita...
2008-06-27 05:01:26
Strange revelations about an Oxfordshire town. Plus David Icke's political ambitions and Morgan Tsvangirai's wisdomHarvest of Thorns
The eyes of the world’s bloggers this week turned with swelling revulsion on the brutality, hunger and violence engulfing Zimbabwe. Widely promoted was the Friends of Zimbabwe blog, which has provided daily coverage of the ongoing crisis.
Bloggers from across Afric
Read more: Panama
Defamatory DD comment?
2008-06-20 08:25:49
Liberty XXX
It was the great foreign secretary Austen Chamberlain who claimed that our diplomats in China had often heard the curse “may you live in an interesting age”. And what a cursed age it is for our nation’s political classes – as Liberty chief Shami Chakrabarti (and as blogger Sadie has it, “winsome khol-eyed heroine”) threatened to sue a Labour Minister for flippantly suggesti
The BBC's Labour prism?
2008-07-25 04:44:15
Glasgow East, Tory cycling and Moses Obama on tourThe Nats are biting
The Scottish Government faced the British Government and won - when the SNP candidate, John Mason, emerged victorious in the Glasgow East by-election, early in the hours of Friday morning. But while nationalists got some hard-earned sleep, Not a Sheep complained bitterly that the BBC’s coverage of the by-election was seen “
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Dweeb or Obama?
2008-07-18 05:52:13
The blogosphere is set alight by David Cameron (well nearly), Blur v Evans and advising the Tories about skunkGet the message, with Dave Cameron
David Cameron’s declaration that black dads need to stop shirking their paternal duties raised a few eyebrows this week. Lib Dem Linda Jack was irked by Dave’s apparent lack of understanding of the complex issues at play, and argued that: “what we w
Read more: Obama
Rats to NHS patients!
2008-08-08 04:30:51
Could vermin infestations in Britain's hospitals be turned to the advantage of the nation's sick?Rat attack
I smell a rat. No, we did Miliband last week. It’s the twitchy creatures who inhabit our nation’s hospitals, at least according to figures uncovered by the Conservatives- and reported here on June Sarpong’s supercool Politics and the City. The Tories were apoplectic! Conservative Home
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A modern day Hotspur
2008-08-01 05:22:42
How the blogosphere is reacting to the in-fighting in the Labour PartyMiliband plays, Brown has the blues
"To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose? And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke?”Henry IV Part I
Our latter-day Hotspur, Thoroughly Modern Miliband, (actually an Arsenal fan) is in rebellion at the ailing and cankerous premier Gordon Brown. Sadly though, his rallying cry on a Com
Who would Jesus vote for?
2008-08-22 06:56:29
The price of limes, the credit crunch and Downing Street's bizarre response to calls for Jeremy Clarkson to be installed at Number 10...An unhappy birthday
It was warrior-poet turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who first predicted the current world's economic crisis. “Crunch, squeeze, crunch,” he explained in his seminal fitness video.
One year ago this week, the global credit c
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More blood for oil!
2008-08-15 06:39:18
Illegal invasions by imperialist armies are fine, so long they’re committed by Russia plus the common link between the Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Abbas and Elvis Presley Tblisi or not Tblisi
The Beatles assured us in their crap 1968 song ‘Back in the USSR’ that Georgia was on their mind. Oddly though, you don’t hear Paul McCartney commenting much on South Ossetia nowadays.
The war in the Caucuse
Hacking Sarah Palin
2008-09-19 05:08:36
Not often getting many thrills, the Lib Dems were keen to have tuppence worth on the conference scrap plus hacking Sarah
Palin's Yahoo...The Bournemouth Identity
Bloggers rarely get the recognition they deserve – so it’s a good thing that the Liberal Democrats take time out to honour their keyboard warriors at conference. This year’s Lib Dem Blog Awards was a rout for Alix Mortimer’s intel
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TUC drained of all life
2008-09-12 04:58:34
Was the Large Hadron Collider responsible for sucking all life out of the TUC? Or did they do it for themselves? Asks Paul EvansCrow was Crow without fail…
The Large Hadron Collider apparently hasn’t matched speculation that it would generate a black hole capable of sucking in all light and humanity. But perhaps its effects were localised to Brighton – because a downbeat TUC, meeting this we
Palin is the new Chuck Norris
2008-09-05 06:21:51
Curbing Scottish drinking, being named after a favourite fishing spot and giddy excitement over Bristol's pregnancy...Lead on, Salmond
Alex Salmond is either Scotland’s wise and benevolent national father, or an irresponsible toadman squatting in a rank pool of ideologically incoherent populism. This week, the SNP leader and First Minister unveiled the Scottish government’s legislative agenda
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, Norris
, Chuck Norris
While Cameron was on holiday...
2008-08-29 06:37:55
Paul Evans takes a look at how the Tories could tackle the obesity crisesCakes and Ale
This week David Cameron
took his second summer holiday. In July he wandered Cornish beaches gazing into the middle distance as only the ruling classes can. Meanwhile, Brown glumly fed ducks, all of which doubtless choked to death on whatever bread he offered them.
Now Dave is taking his actual holiday, sunning i
Who would Jesus vote for?
2008-08-22 06:56:29
The price of limes, the credit crunch and Downing Street's bizarre response to calls for Jeremy Clarkson to be installed at Number 10...An unhappy birthday
It was warrior-poet turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who first predicted the current world's economic crisis. “Crunch, squeeze, crunch,” he explained in his seminal fitness video.
One year ago this week, the global credit c
Read more: Jesus
More blood for oil!
2008-08-15 06:39:18
Illegal invasions by imperialist armies are fine, so long they’re committed by Russia plus the common link between the Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Abbas and Elvis Presley Tblisi or not Tblisi
The Beatles assured us in their crap 1968 song ‘Back in the USSR’ that Georgia was on their mind. Oddly though, you don’t hear Paul McCartney commenting much on South Ossetia nowadays.
The war in the Caucuse
Rats to NHS patients!
2008-08-08 04:30:51
Could vermin infestations in Britain's hospitals be turned to the advantage of the nation's sick?Rat attack
I smell a rat. No, we did Miliband last week. It’s the twitchy creatures who inhabit our nation’s hospitals, at least according to figures uncovered by the Conservatives- and reported here on June Sarpong’s supercool Politics and the City. The Tories were apoplectic! Conservative Home
Read more: patients
A modern day Hotspur
2008-08-01 05:22:42
How the blogosphere is reacting to the in-fighting in the Labour PartyMiliband plays, Brown has the blues
"To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose? And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke?”Henry IV Part I
Our latter-day Hotspur, Thoroughly Modern Miliband, (actually an Arsenal fan) is in rebellion at the ailing and cankerous premier Gordon Brown. Sadly though, his rallying cry on a Com
The BBC's Labour prism?
2008-07-25 04:44:15
Glasgow East, Tory cycling and Moses Obama on tourThe Nats are biting
The Scottish Government faced the British Government and won - when the SNP candidate, John Mason, emerged victorious in the Glasgow East by-election, early in the hours of Friday morning. But while nationalists got some hard-earned sleep, Not a Sheep complained bitterly that the BBC’s coverage of the by-election was seen “
Read more: Labour
Dweeb or Obama?
2008-07-18 05:52:13
The blogosphere is set alight by David Cameron (well nearly), Blur v Evans and advising the Tories about skunkGet the message, with Dave Cameron
David Cameron’s declaration that black dads need to stop shirking their paternal duties raised a few eyebrows this week. Lib Dem Linda Jack was irked by Dave’s apparent lack of understanding of the complex issues at play, and argued that: “what we w
Read more: Obama
Lying with passion
2008-10-03 04:56:06
The US vice-presidential debate, the ups and downs of Michael Gove plus all the rest of the news and views from the political blogosphere
Ready to Gove-ern
“It’s not the same as the old days,” a moustachioed conference attendee adjudged. “The atmosphere in ’81, when Heath launched into Thatcher from the platform – that was electric. It’s not like that now.” Indeed it is not. Unit
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