The Daley spin (revisited)

It seems this time around Iain Dale has managed to spin himself out of control…
Guido claimed in yesterday’s BBC Daily Politics show that he had evidence that Damian McBride had given the line to Derek Draper on how to trash Dale on the Carol Thatcher golliwog remarks (though Guido promised to put the evidence up on his site [...]

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Logo-ing it out!

Well, after the Bosworth Conservative Future bloggers got themselve into a bit of a pickle by putting out a Tory logo creator that went awfully wrong, some examples of it here, and then quickly pulling it, the Go Fourth bunch have decided to allow us to keep up having some fun for a while longer [...]

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Bus wars

When the so called atheist bus took the streets a few months ago many people felt that the word ‘probably’ was redundant.
In their website the campaigners explained that the Committee of Advertising Practice advised the campaign that “the inclusion of the word ‘probably’ makes it less likely to cause offence, and therefore be in breach [...]

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Political transparency and web 2.0

Over the past few years there have been a number of initiatives on institutional transparency – FOI legislation, expenses reporting – that together with greater administrative decentralisation have helped increase accountability in the political system.
Having said this, sleaze is making a comeback which means that we need to up our game once more to continue [...]

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