First election debate: winners and losers
The TV audience peaked at just under 10m, far more than any online audience for a UK political event. TV kept on broadcasting whilst Facebook and Tweetminster buckled under the load. … Read the full post »
Read about the former Conservative Parliamentary candidate, pioneering blogger, publisher and broadcaster, Iain Dale. He was born in 1962.
The TV audience peaked at just under 10m, far more than any online audience for a UK political event. TV kept on broadcasting whilst Facebook and Tweetminster buckled under the load. … Read the full post »
If you’ve read Iain’s post about Anna Arrowsmith “The LibDem Candidate Who Supports Labour” there’s one little detail you won’t have seen. … Read the full post »
Slightly out of character (!), Iain Dale initially missed a chance to put the boot into Labour with his recent post about Labour’s leaflet printing arrangements. … Read the full post »
Rapid criticism of Public Accounts Committee reports from Quentin Davies (defence minister) and David Lammy (higher education minister) have resulted in… … Read the full post »
Predictions that the next general election will be the one in which the internet will make a huge impact have regularly come and gone. … Read the full post »
Today’s Ephriam Hardcastle column in the Daily Mail made the sort of snide unpleasant comments about Iain Dale that you expect of homophobes. … Read the full post »
What do Bob Quick, Damian McBride and Den Dover MEP all have in common? They have all been caught up in a public scandal (security lapse, smears, expense claims). … Read the full post »
Emails which made a number of unfounded, innuendo-laden suggestions about the private lives of David Cameron, George Osborne and other Conservative MPs, have come into the possession of Paul Staines, who writes the Guido Fawkes political blog. … Read the full post »
“What if” histories are often disdained by those who see themselves as serious historians, but this intriguing collection – edited by the eclectic combination of the Liberal Democrats’ former Director of Policy and the Conservatives’ prospective candidate for North Norfolk – does much to give counterfactuals a good name. … Read the full post »
There was an interesting little example last week of how the Conservatives are trying to use blogs to set the tone of news reporting. … Read the full post »