About this site


Political Scrapbook, or Scrapbook to its friends, is a left-leaning political news and gossip website. Material broken here has featured on Sky NewsNewsnight, The GuardianNew StatesmanDaily Mail, Daily Mirror, News of the World, BBC News Online, PoliticsHome, Third Sector … and the Burnley and Pendle Citizen.

The following number among the more printable remarks about our work:

A “prominent political blog” – The Independent

Scrapbook is the talk of Parliament” – anonymous MP following this scoop, which had every Liberal Democrat MP contacted by whips to check office expenses

“Political Scrapbook has the advantage of at least trying to be amusing” – Guido Fawkes

“Always brilliant … Political Scrapbook is one of the best blogs out there, and has a big role to play in the future” – Alex Smith, LabourList

“Attacks done with a sense of humour. My favourite guilty-pleasure read” – Harry Cole, Tory Bear

“I keep meaning to post on how great Political Scrapbook is, but then I forget. So go read their blog while I remember” – Hopi Sen

“A leading light of the Labour blogosphere” – Rupa Huq

“Made me smile” - John Prescott

“An eco-trainspotter … get a life” – The Revolutionary Communist Party

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