Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
elections
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/04/Sky-4-london.jpg] I do like [Sky News’s London Election policy quiz](http://news.sky.com/skynews/fixed_article/0,,91211-1312644,00.html). It’s a nice idea – you pick which of three policies on 11 topics interests you
design
One of the most peripheral presentations has just turned into one of the most interesting. Robert Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/] briefly hijacked Philippe Starck’s presentation by presenting him with an Amazon Kindle, in the interests of getting a design critique. Starck’s verdict? He suggested you need the minimum
family
 [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/11/Iain-Dale-in-Blue.jpg] Apologies for the protracted silence. A family member has gone straight from a hospital stay into a bout of chemotherapy, and I’ve been designated
Blogging
The Telegraph‘s holding a Blogging & Politics event [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/shanerichmond/oct07/political-blogging-open-house.htm] the week after next. I’ll be there.
elections
The battle for the next general election is already being fought – on Wikipedia [http://www.recessmonkey.com/2007/07/06/wiki-wars/]: > Dawn Butler (Lab – Brent South) and Sarah Teather (LD – Brent East) will be fighting it out for the re-drawn seat of Brent Central at the next election, but
bombs
Looks like yesterday’s failed attack on London wasn’t an isolated incident: there’s been a possible suicide car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm]. Too early to make too many assumptions [http://fraserspeirs.livejournal.com/1129636.html] about the
harriet harman
“Did Harriet Harman blog her way to victory?” asks Ellee, as part of a nice round-up of the Labour Deputy Leadership blogs [http://elleeseymour.com/2007/06/25/did-harriet-harman-blog-her-way-to-victory/] . Maybe. But it’s a shame she hasn’t blogged since her victory [http://blog.harrietharman.org/].
civil servants
So, what would be the sensible government approach to repeated revelations that IT projects have gone wrong? An internal investigation? Some changes of management? How about bringing in outside experts to manage the mess? No. They order civil servants to shred documents. [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2007/
david miliband
It appears that David Miliband has some strange toilet habits [http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/farming-news-blog/2007/05/a-strange-tale.html]: > I was lurking outside the press room at the CLA’s centenary conference when the minister appeared and asked whether I could check if there was anyone in
awards
The Computer Weekly team picked up a PPA award [http://www.magazines2007.com/cgi-bin/wms.pl/926] last night for the work they’ve done exposing the appalling state of the NHS IT systems. Even better, the journalist responsible for much of the work, Tony Collins [http://www.computerweekly.com/
bloggers
There’s a nice piece over on The Telegraph’s (journalist) blogs where Robert Colvile discusses how the Left in the US and the Right in the UK have used the internet and blogs in particular to reshape the political debate [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/ukcorrespondents/thewhyoftheworld/may07/bloggerswithrightstuff.
bloggers
In the aftermath advance of its much-as-expected drubbing in the local elections Slightly Ageing Labour is reaching reached out to its loyal bloggers: [http://andrewkbrown.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/labour-meets-some-labour-bloggers/] > During the week I was one of a number of bloggers who went to the first of what