Archive for adam boulton
Political Communication in Britain: the latest 2010 election book
Political Communication in Britain, edited by Dominic Wring, Roger Mortimore and Simon Atkinson, joins a long list of books already published on the 2010 general election. As with others it also faces the tough task of finding a niche between the burgeoning coverage of politics in the media, especially online, and the revitalised Nuffield general [...]
Baroness Warsi’s car-crash interview on AV
It’s not quite Jeremy Paxman vs Michael Howard, but there’s a definite echo of it with Adam Boulton’s repeated questioning and Baroness Warsi’s unwillingness to answer. So if you’ve missed it doing the rounds on Twitter and Facebook so far, here it is to enjoy (or is that suffer?): (One point on which Adam Boulton [...]
Book review: Hung Together – The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government
Adam Boulton and Joey Jones, the authors of Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government, have produced a book of the sort that, after previous general elections, would have been deserving of praise and interest. Their bad luck for the 2010 election is that there are several high quality alternatives available, in particular [...]
TV debate between party leaders: it’s only taken 46 years
The first proposals for a TV debate between party leaders were made for the 1964 general election. For all the talk of the power of the media, it will have taken 46 years for them to get their wish. It’s a credit to Sky that after so many years they finally were the broadcaster willing [...]
A national televised spelling test between the party leaders
So Sky News is keen on having a televised political showdown between party leaders at general election time. Sky News also is pushing heavily the story about the Prime Minister spelling some words wrong in a letter of condolence to the mother of a dead soldier. The logical conclusion? Why of course it’s to have [...]
