It’s not only the election campaign that will stop in May: the sneering, the hype and the bluffing will too
“If something cannot go on forever it will stop,” said the American economist Herbert Stein. That is a thought…
Media
Dear The Sun – we spotted Ed Balls for you…
There’s a story in The Sun(£) today that suggests Ed Balls has been “sidelined” by the party ahead of…
Swiftboating 2015
The 2004 US Presidential Election gave rise to a new form of political terminology: ‘Swiftboating’. For those of…
Labour delivered for me and for people like me
I’m a scouser and we tend to have long memories. One of my childhood memories is of a…
Do the media fear their grip on mass communications is failing?
A twitterstorm – actually it was more of a sonic boom – over the weekend saw more than…
Unite take The Sun to press standards commission over inaccuracies
Unite union are taking The Sun newspaper to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over inaccuracies about Unite’s links…
Polls, polls – and incredibly bad reporting of opinion polls
Yesterday’s papers carried news of a YouGov poll that put Labour 7 points ahead of the Tories. Today’s…
The Sun’s latest attack on Ed Miliband falls flat
So this morning, The Sun attacked Ed Miliband – not for the first time. But the way they…
Labour’s successful summer (the story you won’t read in the papers)
The story of this summer holiday season is one the media won’t be reporting because it doesn’t fit their…
Ignore the media – Ed Miliband could easily be a shoo-in next year
Both Patrick Wintour of the Guardian, and Steve Richards of the Independent have both recently written respectively, that…
