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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 There are a few important articles about the economy in today's newspapers that are each worth reading for their own reasons. First, and perhaps most significantly, George Osborne's budget plan has been shown…
By Mark Hanson An alternative version of this post was first published on TechPresident. Whilst here in the UK we are used to playing catch-up with our American cousins, things have ratcheted up several gears in the past two weeks. Firstly…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In the second in his series of posts about how Twitter is used in politics, Josh Feldberg has mapped all Labour's MPs on Twitter, with information on who follows who and who has the most influence in the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 This article was first published in the Total Politics Guide to Political Blogging 2009-2010. You can buy the book, with the list of the top 300 political blogs in the UK and articles on the blogscapes of the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In spite of the Sun's calculated and long planned attack on Labour today - orchestrated no doubt by Andy Coulson and designed to do the most political damage and reduce Labour's conference poll bounce - Labour…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Liberal Conspiracy has the story that one of David Cameron's allies in the Tories' new European group personally voated for a Lithuanian law that has been described as a harsher, more wide-reaching version of…
By Andrew Pakes Gordon Brown's commitment this week to high speed rail is the strongest signal yet about how seriously the Government is taking the issue. Not only is high speed rail about improving our transport network, it is also part of…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In an interview with this week's New Statesman, Gordon Brown says nervously: "I've got my ideas and I've got my views about the future, and it's my duty and my responsibility to get these across. I accept that…
By Jag Singh / @jagsingh Lord Ashcroft last week bought the ConservativeHome stable of sites, along with the PoliticsHome news aggregator, for what some would say was a paltry sum of £1.3 million. And yes, I'm just jealous about Labourhome…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In this month's Prospect magazine, Gordon Brown will outline his beliefs about the future role of New Labour in meeting the requirements of modern governance - and say that Britain needs a written constitution…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Kellner of YouGov has an important piece in the Fabian Review conference edition website today, which argues that Labour must begin seriously thinking about how it might respond to electoral defeat, a…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the eve of this week's Liberal Democract conference in Bournemouth, the Tories are making advances on the Lib Dems with a series of articles and statements. David Cameron has a piece in today's Observer…
