Day: August 5, 2008
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My CiF piece yesterday has caused a bit of a stir. Paul Walter suspects that may have been my plan all along – the very idea! Meanwhile Tom Papworth orders me to stop “moaning over our organic, Fairtrade, decaf coffees and get on with selling our party to the electorate.” Frankly, that’s not my job…
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A classic BBC headline: MPs ‘should not employ children’ What?! Even if they have a chimney that needs sweeping?
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I’ve forgotten to list my top ten political blogs as part of Iain Dale’s annual bout of self publicity round up. Unlike others, I won’t be partaking in any “boycott.” Sure, the fact that it is edited by Iain and mostly publicised by his blog, it will have an inevitable Tory-bias, but so what? Iain…
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One of the less remarked upon aspects of Nick Clegg’s “Make it Happen” campaign is the deliberate attempt to appeal to a younger female demographic as part of the initiative: Rumours that Cleggy will be doing a burlesque striptease as part of his speech this autumn, or that the title of the party’s final manifesto…