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Mary Beard is a wickedly subversive commentator on both the modern and the ancient world. She is a professor in classics at Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS.
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Longlisted for blogposts published at PoliticalBetting.com and the Daily Kos. Greg Callus is the Deputy Editor of PoliticalBetting.com. PoliticalBetting.com is Britain’s most-read political blog – and the best online resource for betting on politics.
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The police: upholding the law, protecting the weak and innocent, bringing the guilty to justice… or a self-defeating tangle of bureacratic vogons? The opinion in this blog is not official, but it is that of a real serving policewoman and is copyright of PC EE Bloggs. PS, just because I am a police officer does not mean I am responsible for any of the following: poor police driving you saw, roads near you being closed for hours, your unlawful arrest last week.
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Iain Dale is one of Britain’s leading political commentators, appearing regularly on TV and radio. Iain is best known for his political blog, Iain Dale’s Diary, and football blog, West Ham Till I Die. He is a contributing editor and columnist for GQ Magazine, writes for the Daily Telegraph and a fortnightly diary for the Eastern Daily Press. He was the chief anchor of Britain’s first political internet TV channel, 18 Doughty Street.com and is a presenter on LBC Radio. He appears regularly as a political pundit on Sky News, the BBC News Channel, Newsnight, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live. He is the publisher of the monthly magazine, Total Politics and the author or editor of more than twenty books. He is managing director of Biteback Publishing.
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- Iain Dale’s Diary
- Iain Dale, Peter Hitchens and Ed Vaizey, ‘What is the big Conservative idea?’ at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009
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My name is Hopi Sen. Really. Escaping a lucrative career in advertising (which ended when I saw a lifetime of Daz adverts stretching before me and resigned in panic) I started work for the Labour party as the Northern region press officer in 2000. After the 2001 election I moved to Party HQ, before becoming the head of campaigns at the Parliamentary Labour Party. I had various stints on by-elections and General Elections- like working as a press officer to the Leader of the party during the 2005 campaign, a job that mostly involved feeding journalists chocolate and offending Quentin Letts. For six years I was one of those people who are occasionally glimpsed in the background of a photo-op, looking stressed in a cheap suit and in all likelihood sweating profusely. We’re a noble and maligned breed. Now I’ve escaped.
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- Hopi Sen
- Hopi Sen, Jo Glanville and Maajid Nawaz, ‘1984: Thoughtcrime’, Orwell Festival 2009
The triumph of the Tory Eurosceptics. Shannon Matthews, Family Breakdown and progressives. Fighting Back… That Cameron speech in Full The iconography of the angry rich man. Loving the whip. Cameron’s Neo-Hooverism 800 years or 42 days? Above all, try something. A progressive approach to Welfare reform?
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An unapologetic grab-bag of everything. With a liberal unionist flavour.
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Andrew Sparrow is the senior political correspondent on The Guardian website. He trained as a journalist on the South Wales Echo. Since joining the parliamentary lobby in 1994, he has worked as a political correspondent for Thomson Regional Newspapers, the Western Mail, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. He has also written a book – Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism.
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I am Alix Mortimer, head of state in the People’s Republic of Mortimer, where everything is perfect. I am a thinker-up and writer-down of things and southerner out of water, now living in Manchester. I started out as a postgraduate medievalist, then became a professional sub-editor and then a tax consultant (no, really) before I realised that having a Proper Career much less fun than thinking up and writing down. Now I work freelance as a copywriter, report writer and researcher, mainly for the third sector, and write the odd article on politics, history or genealogy in between times. Unnaturally interested in a number of things, including but not limited to history (policy-making, for the use of), local economics, heritage, language, armchair psychology and the future of political communication (we’ll look back on our current efforts and laugh, believe me).
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Gender: Male Occupation: Project Worker/Support Worker Location: Scallysville, Chavshire, United Kingdom
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- Children in Care – Winston Smith, 17/02/09
- Living Arrangements – Winston Smith, 25/02/09
- Social dis-services at it again – Winston Smith, 03/03/09
- Crisis Funds – Winston Smith, 25/03/09
- The Deadly Case of Assault with a Can of Deodorant – Winston Smith, 03/04/09
- The Right to be Morbidly Obese – Winston Smith, 11/04/09
- Addicted to Idleness – Winston Smith, 22/05/09
- Just Another Burden on the Welfare State – Winston Smith, 09/07/09
- A Self Sustaining Egalitarian Redistributive Food System – Winston Smith, 12/11/09
- Driving Miss Crazy – Winston Smith, 12/12/09
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Foreign Matters tries to join the dots and tell it like it is. Postions? It takes them. Debates? It makes them. Some blogs will use the language of diplomats without translation, Foreign Matters seeks to explain that a ‘Working Group’ is 5 or more people sitting in a room failing to achieve anything, and a ‘ Bi-lateral’ is a meeting involving two people chatting.
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Home of the Freedom Pass Anarchists and the wonderful world of professional wrestling, psychogeography, allotments and the class struggle. On the day that I retired from my final job as a lockkeeper I left the following on the wall. …… I started work at fifteen years of age Worked on the river and at sea but I also worked in factories and fields. In the circus and in films. I never achieved much. But I never crossed a picket line. Never judged a fellow worker by their colour or creed Nor sucked up to the bosses for my own ends….. Pretty much sums it all up.
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Posted on October 18, 2009 by The Orwell Prize -
The blog of a pseudonymous English detective. After winning the first-ever Orwell Prize for Blogs, Night Jack was revealed to be Richard Horton by The Times following a landmark High Court ruling, The Author of a Blog vs Times Newspapers Limited.
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All posts via The Salted Slug’s, Nightjack Archive.
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