Thanks a lot to Bridget Fox for kickstarting the debate, both on her own blog and at the Guardian, over the motion “Giving Citizens a Voice in Parliament” which David Boyle and myself will be proposing at party conference next month: This process might not have stopped the Iraq War (no legislation there) - but it
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QuaequamBlog on 29th Aug 2008 (via theliberati.net)
Vanessa Neumann, a self-confessed product of Venezuela's maligned "oligarchy", writes to The Guardian letters with some facts to prove Chavez is the dictatorial monster The Guardian seems determined to portray him as. In the comments section, though, it would appear Ms Neumann (and The Guardian) have been rumbled.... I live in the US and read The Guardian because I cannot stand the biased US ...
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BobPiper on 4th Feb 2009 (via bobpiper.co.uk)
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...
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Labourhome on 14th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Hallelujah! It had to happen eventually: the Guardian is enraged! by a show of support for someone they call a 'convicted criminal'. Just to spell it out to the Guardian, Shields may indeed have been convicted, but a 'criminal'? Didn't the Guardian used to be in favour of actual trials? Still, let's check the scorecard here, guy captured by US troops on Afghan battlefield and sent to Gitmo: obviou...
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HouseofDumb on 4th Dec 2008 (via houseofdumb.blogspot.com)
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...
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Labourhome on 15th Jul 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Headline to Guardian leader: Economy: Down, down, deeper and down So, err, where does that come from? Ahhhh, yes….. The Guardian, hip and with it as ever. Cultural references to Status Quo circa 1975. Well, that was when the UK was at its most equal ever, wasn’t it?
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TimWorstall on 25th Jul 2009 (via timworstall.com)
You can read the Guardian’s self-justification here. You can watch it online here. This is the Guardian’s next theatrical project.
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HarrysPlace on 25th Apr 2009 (via hurryupharry.org)
As the election draws closer and the polls seem firmly stuck in or near hung-parliament territory, the latest Guardian/ICM poll suggests that the prospect of no one party having an absolute majority isn’t scaring voters as much as Labour and the Conservatives might like. As the Guardian reports: Voters remain unconvinced by the Conservative alternative, with 29%
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
A nimble two-step from The Guardian: 1. Polly Toynbee sends tweet encouraging all and sundry to take part in an open-access online poll being run by the BMJ. 2. The Guardian reports result of said BMJ poll. Then only thing missing, alas, is: 3. The Guardian then realises that reporting a voodoo poll which its
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The two newspapers that really count in Britain are The Guardian and The Daily Mail (...discuss!). The Guardian is the newspaper of the ideas class (notably the BBC). The Mail represents the roar of middle England. The Mail came close...
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ConservativeHome on 15th Sep 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)