Archive for daily telegraph
Am I Alone in Thinking…? Unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph
Ian Hollingshead’s collection of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in Thinking…? is a great little collection of amusing or strange letters which did not make it into the paper’s printed edition. It is a bit pricey at the nominal cover price for a short book with large font and acres of white [...]
Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Olly Grender
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Olly Grender, who blogs at http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/olly-grender. 1. What’s your formative political memory? A toss up between my Mum voting in favour of joining Europe in the referendum [...]
Meanwhile, in other news…
Let’s start with some updates on stories we’ve previously covered here on The Voice. Conservative London Assembly member Brian Coleman has backed down from his attempt to ban questions to him at London Fire Authority meetings. The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) is to investigate the Daily Telegraph, following complaints from Tim Farron and others that [...]
Vince Cable, Oliver Letwin and the missing "full transcript"
Undercover journalists expose what politician really thinks … and it turns out to be what we all thought he thought anyway. Though it’s understandable why the Telegraph has splashed the story, the news that there is lots of debate within the coalition over policies is hardly new or surprising. Certainly there’s some embarrassment for Vince, but I [...]
Congratulations, you're 40
Ah, so it wasn’t belated birthday wishes a couple of conference representatives had in mind yesterday, but rather a reference to the Telegraph’s latest list of the most influential Liberal Democrats which has me at number 40 (up 2 on last year, but still below my previous dizzy heights in the 30s). The second half [...]
Clegg backs graduate tax in Telegraph interview
Credit where credit is due, today’s Telegraph interview with Nick Clegg covers a range of substantive policy issues and gives the Deputy Prime Minister the space to give nuanced answers where the question requires them. The biggest story is Clegg’s clear steer on a graduate tax as the way to square financial demands with the [...]
Council website spending put under scrutiny
Today’s Telegraph has a piece looking at the large sums being spent by many councils on new or revamped websites. In itself, an expensive website is not necessarily a poor use of funds as good, popular sites often also save costs (e.g. by reducing the number of phonecalls the council has to handle). As a result, [...]
Is the problem that people don’t want to pay for news or don’t want to pay for newspapers?
Each round of newspaper circulation figures makes grim reading for anyone trying to balance the books at a newspaper. Month after month circulation is dropping away across the board. The usual explanation is that newspapers are suffering because so much free news is now available online, and there is certainly a large degree of truth [...]
Worth a second outing: Does the Daily Telegraph know its up from its down?
Welcome to a series where old posts are revived for a second outing for reasons such as their subject has become topical again, they have aged well but were first posted when the site’s readership was only a tenth or less of what it is currently or they got published and the site crashed, hiding [...]
Former Labour MP sues Sunday Telegraph over expenses story
The Press Gazette reports: Former Labour backbench MP Frank Cook has filed a libel writ against the Sunday Telegraph over a front-page story from May 2009 about his expenses. He is demanding damages of up to £50,000 from publishers Telegraph Media Group over a front page story and two inside pieces in May 2009 in [...]
