In the least gobsmacking news in recent history, the ‘Forensic’ ‘Audit’ ‘Panel’ are today publishing their ‘investigation’s’ findings, which appear to amount to very little, but predictably that’s not how they’ve spun them in advance to right-wing ‘newspaper’ the Telegraph.
The Tory Troll gives the story the coverage it deserves.
Update: Lee Jasper has responded to the [...]
Surprise! FAP report finds nothing, unless you read about it in the right-wing press
July 16th, 2008 7 Comments
Tags: bias · blogs · forensic audit panel · media · spin
A woman’s place is… not in City Hall
July 8th, 2008 2 Comments
After the debate on feminism at Blog Nation, as a feminist myself, I vowed to endeavour to highlight the topic in my blog postings wherever possible.
Perhaps through sexist male hypocrisy, I have barely mentioned women at all since then, but fortunately a certain former Mayor of London has made up some of my lost ground [...]
Tags: blogs · Ken Livingstone · sexism · women
Gaffopædia up and running at Liberal Conspiracy
July 6th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve just been updating Liberal Conspiracy’s new Boris Johnson Gaffopædia. Suggestions for additions and alterations are welcome in the comments or to gaffopedia@stopboris.org.
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Tags: blogs · gaffopædia
Ken and Ali ♥ Boris Watch
June 30th, 2008 1 Comment
From this afternoon’s LBC 97.3 programme, during a discussion about their common enemy, the right-wing press, between Ken Livingstone and his guest, Alistair Campbell:
Ken: It’s quite interesting at the moment, since Boris Johnson became Mayor, there’s been a real flurry of blogs, on the internet, and in actual fact, they’re doing a much better job [...]
Tags: blogs · Ken Livingstone · media