Archive for paul waugh
Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Andrew Reeves
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 Andrew Reeves, who blogs at http://andrewrunning.blogspot.com. 1. What’s your formative political memory? In 1984 Ken Clarke gave me an award at a thank you party for delivering [...]
You shouldn’t support the arts by supporting artists – Labour MP
A rather revealing complaint by Labour MP Gloria de Piero during the week. She had a go over how much the government is spending on purchasing artworks. If her complaint had been that a time of large deficit the government should be cutting this area of spending even more quickly than it is, that would [...]
So you want to be a political journalist?
A sister title to Shane Greer’s So you want to be a politician?, Sheila Gunn’s So you want to be a political journalist? is a collection of thrity-two lively short chapters giving an insight into the life of a political journalist. With an impressive cast of contributors, including Peter Riddell, Carolyn Quinn and Michael White, [...]
The Budget: the Liberal Democrat influence
Earlier today the Liberal Democrat Press Office’s Phil Reilly tweeted, “Income Tax cut – from the front page of the @libdems manifesto to the pockets of 25m taxpayers”. Certainly better to pick from the front page than the back page, as announcing a barcode would have been lacking a little in interest (except, perhaps, to [...]
Nick Clegg’s speech to the Royal College of Nursing
Earlier in the week it was Gordon Brown addressing the nurses but today it was Nick Clegg’s turn. As journalist Paul Waugh put it:
Ooh, Matron. Clegg going down a storm with at nurses’ RCN conference. Better ovation, more laughs at his gags than Brown.
Here’s the speech which got this reaction:
Thank you so much for inviting [...]
What does the future hold for British political blogging?
Mark Pack poses the question ... Predictions that the next general election will be the one in which the internet will make a huge impact have regularly come and gone. Post-Obama ready yourself for another such clutch of predictions, but underneath this punditry froth the internet has got on with quietly shifting the way politics works. It’s been more at the unglamorous organisational end (imagine trying to organise a campaign without email) than at the eye-catching systems-shattering dramatic end beloved of pundits, but it’s been a major change nonetheless.
Missing from Michael Gove's history curriculum: Islam
In response to questioning from Paul Waugh, the Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has detailed exactly what he would like to see in the history curriculum. Details are over on Paul Waugh’s blog and what strikes me is the way it skips past the historical clashes between the Christian west and [...]
Boris Johnson in expenses hot water
Two pieces of troubling news regarding London Mayor Boris Johnson and his approach to expenses: he’s been running up big bills himself and he also personally signed off expenses on the controversial corporate credit card, the use of which resulted in (yet another) Deputy Mayor having to quit.
Paul Waugh has the details of Boris Johnson’s [...]
