The burning question about the Miliband blog

Posted by on Jun 19, 2006 in updates | 7 comments Chris Huhne: why are Lib Dems so silent about Miliband’s £40,000k blog? When I first heard about David Miliband’s £40,000 per year blog, my first thought was to trawl the Lib Dem blog sites to see if they had been expressing any indignant views about it, after all, it was their discovery. Not a word. Two days later they are still strangely silent and I find this puzzling....
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The reason why more women don’t blog

Posted by on Jun 19, 2006 in updates | 8 comments Where is our UK Arianna? Iain asks today why women don’t blog on political issues, why are 90% of them men. I’ve looked at my blogroll and wondered the same, I only have two women bloggers there, including the USA Queen of Blogs, my Greek Goddess of the Huff Post. The ratio is actually the same as the number of Tory women MPs, of which there are 9%, only 17 in all. The answer...
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My call from The Times and internet censorship

Posted by on Jun 19, 2006 in updates | 2 comments I had a call from Will Pavia of The Times yesterday. He wanted a Tory quote about the British film censors’ suggestion that internet sites should have classification similar to films to warn users about porno sites and foul language. He had seen my name at the top of ConservativeHome site regarding my story about David Miliband’s £40,000 p.a. blog, hence the call. My response was...
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