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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 "It all began with a lunch. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, was invited to Chequers in spring 2009. A government taskforce had just published a report aimed at making Britain a digital world…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson has gone head-to-head with his Tory counterpart Ken Clarke this evening on Channel 4, talking about this morning's news that Britain is out of recession. After Ken Clarke warned the Tories…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In an article for Progressive London ahead of its conference this Saturday, I've written a little more about how the internet might play a role in the forthcoming general election. Although the web's impact on…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The UK economy is now out of recession, showing a 0.1% growth in the last quarter between October and December, 2009. But economists had been predicting growth of between 0.3 and 0.4%, and ONS figures now show…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * Gordon Brown flew to Northern Ireland last night to ry to resolve a dispute between republicans and unionists which could threaten power sharing. * The PM has told aides of his "astonishment" at the Tories'…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Jack Straw gave evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry today, and said that the case for going to war was always based on the perceived threat of weapons of mass destruction - and was not informed or influenced…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 While the Conservatives appear finally to have dropped the idea of marking Tory candidates on the ballot papers as representing "David Cameron's Conservatives", their campaign is still overwhelmingly fronted…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPDATE: Sky News has the letter: "I am clear that it is a matter for you how you conduct the Inquiry and that it is, and must remain, entirely independent of Government...In undertaking this you have rightly…
By Alex Finnegan Forced resignations, retirement and defeat mean that at the next General Election we could see the biggest churn of MPs in Parliament since 1945. As many as half of all current MPs may not return and there are likely to be…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * TORY CANDIDATES ARE BEING SENT ON COURSES TO LEARN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, amid new evidence that they are not concerned about changes to the environment. * DAVID CAMERON HAS BEEN "GIVEN PERMISSION" BY IAIN…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 * JAMES PURNELL SAYS LABOUR CAN STILL WIN: "We only need to go back to the values of the early Labour movement". * PETER MANDELSON'S POSITION IN POLITICS IS UNPRECEDENTED, writes Bruce Anderson in the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Perhaps intended to influence the secret PLP ballot that never happened - which Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt had hoped would occur on Monday - the timing of Peter Watt's broadside on Gordon Brown is another…
