Go fourth the stickers proclaimed
2008-09-26 06:40:08
Just what have the bloggers been saying in the week Gordon Brown pulled back from the brink...
Half Madchester
Labour had to call on previously untapped depths of optimism to get through conference – stretching the nation’s credulity in the process. “Go fourth
” the stickers adorning the crowd proclaimed, as Brown appeared on stage to the strains of Jackie Wilson’s ‘Higher and Higher
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 int
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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 Evans
Crow 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
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 agend
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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 crises
Cakes 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
Sailing close to the wind
2008-10-24 04:30:03
Osborne splits the bloggers while Byron gets the recognition he deserves, this week in the politics blogs
The Osborne Identity
Shadow Chancellor and marionette impersonator George Osborne is at the centre of an almighty stink, amid suggestions, which he denies, that he sought to illicit filthy great wads of cash from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in order to pad out the Tory coffers. Bright's B
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Mandy in the cold
2008-10-20 04:37:19
Chatter about migration, giant hedgehogs and how Mandelson felt the chill in Russia, this week in the blogosphere
Thinking cap?
As Home Office minister Phil Woolas declared new caps on the number of migrants allowed to enter the UK, keyboards began furiously tapping. Iain Dale was quick to jibe at what he saw as an appropriation of recent Tory thinking, in a post sardonically entitled ‘It’s n
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Shouldn't have gone to Iceland
2008-10-10 04:19:09
David Cameron's lack of lustre in the Commons provoked a curious consensus in the blog plus the financial wisdom of (some) local authorities
Gordon’s Alive!
Consensus is now the order of the day in Westminster, and bloggers have been following suit – declaring Brown victor at the dispatch box, as PMQs returned this week. Labour councillor Bob Piper had a few nerves on Tuesday, and was hoping
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Ginger beer for George?
2008-11-14 05:58:09
Paul Evans runs through his pick of the best of the politics blogs...
Taxing times
Red meat and political debate in rude health. That’s what we want. And we want it now! Westminster often fails to deliver, and so the bloggers stepped in. Anti-blog whingers in parliament, some of them apparently intelligent people, complain that blogs are the vulgar solipsistic tools of partisans, bent on subver
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, George
America and the Falklands
2008-11-07 04:22:11
Paul Evans' round-up of the top stories covered by the world's political bloggers
Good morning America
Entering Google Trends Top 10 this week: “inauguration day 2009 tickets”. Barack Obama’s victory in the election to decide the 44th president of the United States of America represents a victory fought even more fiercely online than on the ground. His own ”Fight the Smears” website (we
Er, there's an election on...
2008-10-31 06:15:22
Yes, yes we've heard all about the US presidential election but what about the pitched battle that's underway on the streets of Glenrothes - Paul Evans on the politics blogs
Glenrothes Calling
It almost escaped our collective attention, what with the world economy collapsing around us, but there’s a mighty by-election battle going on in the Kingdom of Fife. And while Labour and the SNP tussle i
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