Happy birthday, Mr. President. You have no idea how much we miss you. Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the w...

Tabloid editor Dominic Mohan and Times editor James Harding recalled to Leveson inquiry into phone-hacking

Ah, primary season is in full swing.. Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the...

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, writing on his blog today, said: Having returned from the meeting of business, media and politics in Davos to the storm around RBS bonuses, I would like to offer some broader perspective on this debate. It was only my second time in Davos, but what struck me was that – even there - the issue of how to make capitalism more responsible is firmly on the...

Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appe...

The Sunday Times lists the ‘Top 500 Apps in the world’ (£) today, and I’m pleased to say that The Spectator’s brand new app ranks no.4 in its ‘news apps’ category. The newspaper categorises the apps the ‘the good, the mad and lovely’ and ours emerges as little of all three. What we have sought to do with the new app is combine our blogs and the ...

Seventy years young yesterday...rumble young man, rumble! Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council...

Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appe...

Despite Labour’s consistent polling lead, the impression from the comment pieces, blogs and tweets is of a party struggling to find supporters. The logic is that the government is likely to recover and overhaul that lead between now and the next election. But we can test this against the past.

Like most people, I usually ignore Dan Hodges and his "strategic advice". As a campaign organiser for the Labour Party at the last election, I very quickly realised that 'taking advice from political bloggers' was not a winning strategy. It is, after all, the voters that will decide the next election and not the people who write for blogs. But yesterday Dan wrote something that crossed t...