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By Derek Draper The Lords scandal brings back unhappy memories for me, and others have not been slack in drawing parallels. Peter Oborne calls me a "sleazebag" and says I should not be allowed to campaign for Labour. The truth is my own…
By Alastair Campbell Philip Gould, whom God preserve, has a theory about me: that today's irritation becomes tomorrow's obsession. (I freely admit to being both irritable and obsessive). So up to the age of 40 odd, I had no time for…
By Alex Smith Some of us may not like it, but we all know that digital technology, and emailing in particular, is an everyday part of modern life. So after weeks of conjecture and fretted behind-the-scenes decision making, one of the…
Though not quite as scandalous as the Zinoviev letter, a lot of flack has been flying around the internet over the last couple of days with reference to what we shall term 'the Obama letter', the letter hosted on up-and-coming MP Dawn…
By James Purnell When Karen Matthews was convicted, the Tories used the opportunity to demonise everyone on benefits. They argued that everyone on benefits was the next potential Karen Matthews. This is the same old Tory approach of being…
By Derek Draper In his Guardian column today, Martin Kettle adds credence to David Cameron's claim to be "progressive". Well, Martin, at the risk of being "tribal" (something I'm rather proud of actually) can I ask you to respond to the…
By Philip Honour Over two million people of all ages, races and from all walks of life descended on Washington DC to see Barack Obama be inaugurated as President of the United States. At the same time, in bars across the world, pub quizs…
By Liam Byrne David Cameron is at Demos today to launch their new project on progressive conservatism. Is this something that should be taken seriously? You can, it is said, often see some-one's true character when they are under pressure…
By Tom Miller Dizzy Thinks. Often. But not very thoroughly. Or fairly. A quick paragraph to deal with Mr Big Celebrity's attack on me this morning (could you get any more pompous?)... I suppose he reckons that everyone writing about new…
By Derek Draper Fraser Nelson at the Spectator Coffee House blog has responded to the challenge we posted last night. This is our reply: Fraser, Thanks for your kind words about LabourList. We've made an ok start I think, with lots more to…
Cap'n Fraser Nelson of the good ship Spectator delights in exposing what he calls "Brownies" - silly instances of where he thinks the PM has got his facts wrong. Well, we have a real humdinger for him to expose. It comes from Alan Duncan…
By Tom Miller Ever quick to man the PR barricades, the Conservative Party have put up a lightning response to Ed Miliband's launch of LabourSpace earlier today. Unfortunately the content completely misses the point about the technology…
