Archive for gaby hinsliff

The Nick Clegg biography – an updated review

31 August 2011 , , , ,
As the title says, I’ve expanded my review of the Nick Clegg biography having had the chance to chew over a few of the contents further (and prompted by Gaby Hinsliff to make a comparison with the Ed Milibiand biography that has also come out recently). The Nick Clegg review, revised is here.

The best piece about internet and politics in today's papers…

11 April 2010 ,
… is Gaby Hinliff’s for The Observer. Her piece gives a nice overview, looks in some detail at various areas and make some good judgements: All three mainstream parties are adopting similar techniques, but with very different aims. For the Tories, the main challenge is to persuade nervous floating voters. They want to employ social [...]

Why do men dominate newspaper letters pages?

If you look at the political blogs which are most read by MPs and political journalists, you find that they are run by a nearly all male cast: Jonathan Isaby, Tim Montgomerie, Alex Smith, Stephen Tall, myself and so on. As I wrote when looking at the impact of the internet on politics in 2010: [...]

A new must-read blog: Gaby Hinsliff

1 November 2009
Just sometimes I stumble across a new blog that is so gripping, funny or interesting that I rapidly devour all the posts in the archives and then wish the next post would appear right away. But Gaby Hinsliff’s new blog – on standing down as The Observer’s political editor – is all three and more. [...]