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Labour Party conference 2009 #lab09

By + on September 29, 2009 in Politics

I’ve only missed one Labour Party conference in about the last 14 years. This year however I’m only there for one day as I need to stay in Leeds to help my wife who is the final week of the selection contest to choose the prospective Parliamentary candidate for Elmet and Rothwell. My flying visit [...]

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Why the BNP needs the ‘oxygen of publicity’ – to choke itself

By + on September 7, 2009 in Media, Politics

This morning I provided PR Week with a quote about the BBC’s decision to allow the BNP’s Nick Griffin to appear on Question Time. My full comment was: I don’t think it’s just a publicity stunt for the BBC. It’s not a question of if it is a good move, it was the only move [...]

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Cabinet Office hits back at inaccurate media coverage of Deputy Director of Digital Communication job advert

By + on September 3, 2009 in Media, social media

Once again the media has been getting its collective knickers in a twist because the UK government is recruiting a ‘Twittercrat’ who will be ‘paid to teach the Government how to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Bebo.’ Cue, lots of critical comment and editorials. Except that most of it wasn’t true and [...]

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