Cameron’s poor judgement on Irish peace process (0)
09/3/10 •
This evening’s BBC News at Ten coverage of the historic Stormont vote on policing and justice was striking for the absence of voices from the very community whose confidence in policing has been lacking for so long. Unless I blinked and missed it not a single nationalist or republican voice was to be heard during the top story on the BBC’s flagship news bulletin.
Despite this limitation one thing came through crystal clear. The alliance the Tories have formed in the [...]
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Standard City Hall editor’s blog is back (0)
25/2/10 •
The Evening Standard’s City Hall editor Pippa Crerar recently returned from maternity, and now her Standard blog is back.
It’s a welcome return, adding an extra dimension to online City Hall-watching. Here’s her take this week on the confirmation hearing for Kit Malthouse’s appointment, and possible future directions for the MPA.
Read Pippa’s blog here.
NS: One third of Tory PPCs cite Thatcher as their political hero (0)
25/2/10 •
This week’s New Statesman includes an exclusive ComRes poll that shows the Thatcherite character of the new breed of Tories standing for Parliament under David Cameron’s leadership.
“Three-quarters of Conservative prospective parliamentary candidates want to renegotiate the UK’s relationship with the EU as a matter of priority and 91 per cent back a cap on immigration,” says the NS, adding: “The survey shows that the shadow of Margaret Thatcher still looms large over the Tories only weeks before a general election.”
The [...]
Malthouse appointment = broken Boris promise (0)
23/2/10 •
Dave Hill has a preview of today’s confirmation hearing for Kit Malthouse to become chair of the police authority – a clear cut broken promise by Boris Johnson who pledged to do the job himself.
Dave looks at the recent resignation of Bob Purkiss from the race and faith inquiry, amid questions over Malthouse’s role in that affair.
Meanwhile in the Standard Pippa Crerar reports that the incoming chair has a poor attendance record at MPA meetings, despite being the mayor’s lead on [...]
Cameron – trying to browbeat attention from the real choice (3)
22/2/10 •
Gordon Brown’s opponents are desperate not to fight the election on the real choices on offer and instead want to talk about process and personal attacks.
(For different reasons – largely because it’s easier to explain and more personally dramatic – much of the media prefer that terrain too. And some of it’s just cynical).
That’s the real context of the frenzy over the last forty-eight hours: endless coverage of personalised claims instead of say, discussion of the economy or the cancer [...]
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