Ian Dale does his best to cross-subsidise the traffic of his Dale & Co website by auto-posting links from his well-followed Twitter account. Here’s why it might not be such a good idea: Perhaps it could have been worse for Ed Miliband after all…
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IPSA board member accused of "sick" samurai joke about dead researcher
A member of the parliamentary standards watchdog has been accused of making a “sick joke” at the expense of a dead parliamentary researcher. In an interview with Total Politics magazine IPSA board member and merchant banker Ken Olisa was quizzed by Iain Dale: Iain Dale: How much training do your staff get before they’re let loose on [...]
Our Christmas video: Political bloggers say goodbye
The past twelve months (and prior) have seen several very popular blogs either shut down or change editorial hands. As the year draws to a close, what better opportunity to reflect on those bloggers “no longer with us”. Starring Iain Dale, Tom Harris, Derek Draper and others, we’ve finally completed our end-of-year video. This is our tribute [...]
Dave and Nick's big marquee
It may have something to do with Westminster’s exodus for Cliff Richards’ villa a yacht in Corfu the outskirts of Dear Old Blighty, but Scrapbook can’t help noticing the number of bloggers on the airwaves of late. Tory Bear’s hour-long LBC love-in with Red Ken on Saturday morning was followed by the appearance of not one but three online hacks [...]
Is Iain Dale angling for a peerage?
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Labour's REAL top-20 influencers on Twitter
UPDATE: Those who would prefer a more cerebral analysis (without another list!) should check out Sunder Katwala’s post from yesterday. In the wake of Tweetminster’s report on Twitter and UK politics, Left Foot Forward have re-ordered Iain Dale’s list of the “Top 20 Labour Twitterers” using Edelman’s TweetLevel service. One of the headline findings from Tweetminster’s [...]
Big boy bloggers must be big enough to admit when they get it wrong
On Sunday evening Iain Dale posted some extremely sloppy climate change denial ‘science’ submitted by one of his readers. Scrapbook won’t bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that the whole effort was completely and utterly flattened by Unity (@Unity_MoT) at Liberal Conspiracy and also by the Freethinking Economist. When it eventually came, the update [...]
Iain Dale PPC: good news for Labour online?
Iain Dale’s shortlisting to replace Andrew “double-dipping” Mackay in Bracknell offers the possibility that the Conservative’s number one blogger will finally come ‘full circle’ – his online diary was started originally for his campaign in North Norfolk. Dale discusses all things Bracknell with Jonathan Shepherd of Tory Radio in the clip below: [gplayer href="http://toryradio.podbus.com/iaindaleonbracknell.mp3"]Iain Dale discusses Bracknell [...]
