Guardian has a Miliband agenda Bob Marshall-Andrews, though an unreconstructed maverick, writes a very entertaining blog, which everyone should read just to cheer themselves up in the morning. Anyway here he is on the subject of writing for the Guardian: "Just had an article urging Brown to go for growth turned down by the Guardian All my articles are turned down by the Guardian but...

(Guardian.co.uk) Sunny is a freelance commentator, contributing regularly to The Guardian. He has also written several times for The Independent, The Times and other national newspapers. Mostly he writes about identity politics. He runs Pickled Politics and Liberal Conspiracy, and also blogs at The F Word What made you decide to start blogging? It started off with annoyance at the way people who t...

From a press release issued today New Statesman magazine has appointed Emily Mann is its new deputy editor. It has also appointed Mehdi Hasan as its new senior editor (politics). Emily is a former chief sub-editor of the New Statesman and, most recently, has been on the staff of the Guardian, working on the Guardian Review. She

This is very amusing indeed. Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, writing in the New York Review of Books, about the Tesco libel case against The Guardian. Several thousand words and some reasonable points made. But, but: The story over which The Guardian came to grief involved a program launched by Tesco in 2006 to raise

Charlie Beckett wrote an article yesterday (via Iain Dale) looking at the power of political blogs compared with the broader media, using data from Guido, a list of traffic to US Newspapers from the Editor and Publisher blog, and overall Guardian readership figures (link to PDF). I agree with Charlie's general thrust: Overall, no-one would deny that Guido is a significant part of the blogosph...

A cut-and-paste job from Iain Dale, but he did ask for it: In early September TOTAL POLITICS, in association with APCO WORLDWIDE will publish the 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. It will contain articles on blogging by some of Britain's leading bloggers, together with a directory of UK political blogs, and a series ...

A day after writing a piece about the Slugger Awards celebrating blogs as a tool for creating a greater involvement in politics by ordinary people, I have run across an example that is in the opposite direction. There will be a debate about the value of political blogging organised by the Bevan Foundation in the Senedd on Tuesday 21st October: To Blog or Not to Blog? 6.00pm to 7.30pm on Tuesday 21...

Take Part & Win £100 worth of Political Books!In early September TOTAL POLITICS, in association with APCO WORLDWIDE will publish the 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. It will contain articles on blogging by some of Britain's leading bloggers, together with a directory of UK political blogs, and a series of Top 20s and Top 10s. The book will be available at the Green Party, TUC, Labour,...

What on earth was the Guardian doing accepting an advert (placed by the GLA) for a researcher for the BNP? I have no doubt that Guardian executives will justify their decision to on the grounds of liberty and free speech but it is disappointing nonetheless. Or am I over-reacting? Is their decision based upon principle or profit? I have always thought that the Guardian was keen on  promoting good c...

In writing on the occasion of a William Beveridge anniversary, Liam Byrne isn't out to present a scholarly summary of the famous Beveridge White Paper, he's testing how a few new welfare themes might be received in today's political climate. The Guardian has picked a few readers' letters commenting on his article. Their choice tells you how extreme is The Guardian's ethos,...