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Category: UK Politics

15.05.2008 EU Politics / Technology / UK Politics

More about the EU flood aid payments

Things have moved on a bit in the argument about EU money to the UK to help regions hit by floods last summer, the subject of this post. NEW – Helga Truepel MEP is now on the warpath on this

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Rubber chicken with an EU flag in its rear
29.04.2008 EU Politics / UK Politics

Reform how Britain’s MEPs are elected – end the rubber chicken circuit

Selection processes are nearing completion to determine the party lists for the June 2009 European Parliament election in the UK. For Labour (more here) and the Conservatives, whose internal party procedures prioritise sitting MEPs, it’s already possible to name more

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Time and The Sun logos
22.04.2008 UK Politics

Spain and the UK – a world of difference for women politicians

Spain appoints its first female Defense Minister, part of Zapatero’s cabinet that’s gender balanced. Time has an article about her (via Liberal Conspiracy), and women in politics in Spain – it’s not easy going, but it must be an optimistic

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Kate Hoey
21.04.2008 UK Politics

Time to deselect Kate Hoey?

I must say I wasn’t a fan of Kate Hoey when I lived in her Vauxhall constituency a few years ago (mainly because she’s eurosceptic), and it seems that since her stint as a Junior Minister ended in 2001 she’s

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Westminster map
12.04.2008 UK Politics

The case for political State Secretaries in the UK

I’ve been thinking about the degree of party-politicisation of the UK civil service for some time and have come to a rather unusual conclusion: the UK needs party-political State Secretaries (equivalents of Secrétaires d’État in France, Staatssekretäre in Germany, Statssekreterare

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Diffusion PR Slogan
07.04.2008 Technology / UK Politics

Political PR and the age of the web

How should PR professionals use the web? That’s one of the issues I read up on in order to better advise political clients with regard to the websites I produce as a freelancer. My main starting point in the UK

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01.04.2008 EU Politics / UK Politics

Classic article in The Guardian, and one that’s not a joke

Have a read of this brilliant article in today’s Guardian about a new cultural initiative involving Gordon Brown and Carla Bruni. I sort of wish Brown would do something so daring… Pity it’s not on the Number 10 website. I

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Kate McCann gagged
19.03.2008 UK Politics

Paul Stinchcombe and the McCanns – two sides of the British media

My visits to London give me a short, sharp dose of news in the UK – and what a dose over the last few days. I saw part of a remarkable interview on Newsnight last night (available on the BBC

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Chuka4Streatham screenshot
16.03.2008 UK Politics

Chuka selected in Streatham

It’s always good to have played a small part in a victorious political campaign, and so it has proven with the website Chuka4Streatham; that was my limited contribution to Chuka Umunna’s successful bid to be selected as successor to Keith

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Labour slogans
03.03.2008 UK Politics

Labour logo and slogan overload!

Can someone please explain to me what’s going on with the Labour Party’s branding strategy, or the lack of it? I’ve already posted about Labour’s logo problem (i.e. what is the logo presently) but now the party also has 3

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Ken screenshot
19.02.2008 UK Politics

Ken’s back in the online race

Ken Livingstone’s new website for his campaign to be re-elected as Mayor of London has been launched today, and I’m happy and relieved to see that it’s a major step forward as Boris was ahead in the online race for

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18.02.2008 UK Politics

Organising a conspiracy is damned hard

So Mohammed Al Fayed has had his say at the Diana inquest and he stands by his opinion that the car crash was organised by the UK intelligence services at the request of Prince Philip. All kinds of people are

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