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Telegraph's attack on Danny Alexander is rich
On Friday the Guardian ran this piece from me: Telegraph’s attack on Danny Alexander is rich Danny Alexander’s behaviour wasn’t a patch on the sort of tax avoidance measures the Telegraph repeatedly recommends On Monday the Daily Telegraph’s personal finance editor, Ian Cowie, wrote of the paper’s story about Liberal Democrat MP Danny Alexander and [...]
Why do we demand such high standards of politicians?
The Independent ran this piece from my yesterday: There was no need for The Telegraph to run a snatched doorstep photo of David Laws’s partner – but it is standard fare for political coverage across the media After years when ministers were far too reluctant to resign, clinging on to their jobs regardless of criticism, [...]
Capital Gains Tax: an outrageous list of advice
In a shocking list of advice being given out about capital gains tax, MPs were told:
“Don’t forget to claim expenses”
“Become a butterfly and flit between homes”
“Exploit personal allowances and minimise rates” and more.
The advice urges people to make use of “a range of little-known tax breaks” and quotes a tax advisor saying, “It is possible [...]
Danny Alexander & the Telegraph: not paying something that’s not due is not a story
So here are the facts as we know them (and see his statement that Helen blogged):
In 1999 – 2006 he and his wife owned one property (in London)
In 2005 he became an MP
In 2006 he bought a house in his constituency. That house has been designated his main home for Parliamentary expense purposes.
In 2007 they [...]
Exclusive poll: newspaper hostility makes voters more likely to back Lib Dems
A poll carried out exclusively for Lib Dem Voice shows that opposition from the Daily Mail, The Sun and Daily Telegraph to the Liberal Democrats actually makes people more likely to vote for the party.
Asked the impact on their voting intention of those papers opposing Nick Clegg becoming Prime Minister, 15% said it made them [...]
It's not just Party A vs Party B, it's the public vs the newspapers
In the past if you read something in a newspaper that you disagreed with, that was pretty much it. A very small number of people were moved to write to the paper and a few very rarely moved to stop buying it. But it was essentially a personal, private matter – grumble a bit, mention [...]
Dear Ian Cowie…
Dear Ian,
I’m a bit confused by your article about hung Parliaments in the Telegraph, where you wrote:
The last time a British election failed to produce a decisive result, in February, 1974, the FTSE All Share Index – a broad measure of the stock market – fell nearly 15pc in a month and ended the year [...]
Benedict Brogan & Telegraph backs away from its page 1 splash on Nick Clegg
Benedict Brogan has taken to the Telegraph blog to defend today’s coverage and comes up with this: The likelihood must be that it is evidence of disorganisation, nothing more, but don’t know that yet. Even if you agree with the first part of the sentence, that’s a remarkably weak excuse for a huge front page [...]
An email to the editor of the Daily Telegraph
I’m rather puzzled by the story that your paper has run questioning the use of weighting in YouGov’s polls (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7546322/YouGov-pollster-gives-Labour-an-unfair-advantage.html).
Indeed, the piece takes such a suspicious attitude towards weighting that it puts the word in inverted commas and talks about YouGov having “admitted” that it uses weightings.
My puzzlement is quite simple.
Every single political opinion poll [...]
