Category Archives: The Political Weblog Movement

Tim Montgomerie is a genius

Times – Tories plan to beat ‘bias’ by bringing in bloggers: The Conservative Right is to turn to new American campaigning techniques and the internet to try to revive the party and overcome what it sees as opposition from the … Continue reading

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Gareth Davies lets fly!

Gareth Davies – Dragons, poodles and spin doctors: But of course, as quite a few people know, the expert in question is Tim Ireland, of Bloggerheads fame. Tim is no secret practitioner of the black arts in darkened rooms; he … Continue reading

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Speaking as someone who only recently gave a damn…

Simon Jenkins – Under my keyboard the desk shakes. The bloggers are on the march Europhobia – The more time people spend online, the more interested in politics they become

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Looking for an echo

This link requires subscription, so I’m going to repeat the meat here in order to get the word out further… Stewart Kirkpatrick – skirkpatrick AT scotsman DOT com – needs your help: I’ve been wracking my brain to think of … Continue reading

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Only ‘freedoms’ can defeat the terrorists

What can I say but; “Bring it on!”

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New proxy on the block

Not Louise Ellman MP: This is not the offical blog for Louise Ellman MP, it’s a blog about Louise Ellman MP.

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We suck

Via Abnu and this fabbo post at gawker.com, we find this article at FOXNews, belittling bloggers. (Well, leftist bloggers. Right-wing bloggers are pyjama-clad champions of the oppressed.) The former link contains the following quote, which I’d like to share with … Continue reading

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Alan Milburn blog gets blogged for not blogging

Political apathy? Not any more, chum. :o) Alan Milburn Blog in the national press. Again. What a lovely little heart-starter. Well done, Mike.

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MPs: the public needs to know they *can* engage

OK, I see the problem. I also think that we can fix it. If more MPs had websites that were more interactive (and by that, I mean open, two-way and communicative) then we might just stand a chance of breaking … Continue reading

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Speaking of potential…

BritBlog Roundup proposed. Kind of like a semi-manual UK-specific Blogdex, perhaps? Test-run of sorts here. TheyWorkForYou.com has a bunch of new features as well. Go see.

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