Some in Labour are digging their own grave

So we all knew Miliband’s article was going to be controversial (to say the least), but come on people! some Labour MPs are throwing stones on their own roof.
Today’s calls by Brown ultra-loyalists for the PM to sack Miliband are completely out of line and a massive political error on their part. Miliband wrote what [...]

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On Miliband’s article (predictable wasn’t it?)

The MSM is having an early Christmas today. Yesterday’s slow news’ day ended with the announcement in Newsnight of Miliband’s Guardian article today. I bet most MSM pundits woke up early today to have a go at reading the runes behind the Foreign Secretary’s words.
Miliband’s article today could be a good first step for Labour. [...]

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My all time top five funny political moments

Another dissertation-writing break, another blogpost… I’ve been thinking about continuing my ‘all time top five’ series for a while now. So here they go, the next serie is on the funniest political moments of all times. Enjoy!
5- Bush and golf.

4- Clinton and Yeltsin (boy, those were the good old days!)
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No Jonah effect for Obama

Slow news day, so I’ve decided to pick a little bit on Guido’s recurrent Brown’s ‘Jonah effect’.
According to FiveThirtyEight.com, my favourite American number-crunching site (I reviewed it months ago here), the USA Today/Gallup poll Guido refers to has little credibility. You can read the interesting analysis and subsequent discussion here.
So there you are, daily pointless [...]

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Yet again… The Sun

VIA: The Daily (Maybe)

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Quote of the day

‘Panicking Labour MPs should dive in a holiday pool and cool down. Running around like headless chickens, shouting ditch the leader, is summer madness’
Kevin Maguire

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Campus Party kicks off in Spain

The world’s annual biggest LAN party, Campus Party, is kicking off in Valencia tomorrow. This 12th edition is the biggest yet with more than 8,000 participants.
The Campus Party was created by networked groups of computer science sudents across Spain. You can read the history of the gathering here. A great deal of people that attend [...]

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Networking? what happened to good old chatting?

The great thing about blogs is that random thoughts can be expressed freely whenever one feels like it without a subeditor automatically going mental on the waste of valuable printed space. This is not just fun for the blogger, but in fact gives the blog a flair of easiness and the much needed wit missing [...]

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On Labour’s badly needed new message

As promised yesterday I would like to throw out there a couple of ideas for a new political message for Labour. Now that Brown is finally taking some time out (and hopefully getting some good sleep to clear his head) I hope No. 10 staffers are working hard on the new message and calendar to [...]

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Make history people!

Iain Dale has started to prepare his annual top 100 UK blogs ranking. This year the rules apparently are a bit more complicated than in previous years (this blog wasn’t around then).
First of all let me say is a great thing Iain is doing this. Encouraging healthy competition and promoting the UK blogosphere with these [...]

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