CommentIsLinked@LDV: James Graham on the Channel 4/YouGov poll of marginals
Over at the Channel 4 News politics website, Lib Dem blogger James Graham gives his brief take on the latest YouGov poll of Conservative-Labour marginals showing Labour on 36% (-2% since Oct ’08), the...
View ArticleLive from Vince’s crowded mantelpiece
We asked you to submit the coronation plans, and you did. Now, to the universal and overwhelming lack of surprise of the entire political world, Vince Cable has won the Channel 4 News Political Impact...
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Televised party leader debates: get your worms at the ready
The “worm” is an instant poll tracker which wriggles across people’s TV screens, showing the net negative or positive reaction of a small group of the public to what is happening on screen. Running a...
View ArticleOaten reduced to tears in new Channel 4 documentary
The Sun reports today, with unsubtle snideness, on a new Channel 4 documentary, Tower Block Of Commons, in which ‘four pampered MPs were reduced to tears and tantrums when they swapped their grace and...
View ArticleNo panic here, nothing to see, move along
Two different stories today, unconnected in one way but both – particularly when put together – speaking volumes for the current state of the Conservative Party. Obviously, panic or disagreements are...
View ArticleCameron filmed confused and clueless in gay equality TV interview
Channel 4 tonight broadcast excerpts from a quite extraordinary filmed interview with David Cameron in which the Tory leader appears utterly confused and clueless about his party’s position on the...
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Ask the Chancellors: live blog
Here are the verdicts on how it went: Overall verdict Very well chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Cable frequently got applause. Darling held his ground well, but Osborne often weak and looking shifty....
View ArticleLDVideo: Vince Cable’s best bits from Ask The Chancellors
Welcome to this latest LDVideo instalment, highlighting video clips from last night’s Ask The Chancellors debate on Channel 4. Vince not only speaks the most sense but provokes the best reaction from...
View ArticleTories cry “foul” at Lib Dems’ fair hearing
More complaints about the Liberal Democrats and media bias – but this time it’s the Conservatives worried that when Liberal Democrats get equal billing, people like what they see. From the Times: The...
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Fact Check factchecks the Fact Check quoters
Oops. Bit of, err…, over exuberance over on Labour List who ran the story: Deficit caused by economic crisis, says Channel 4… The Tories have spent most of the past year trying to establish a media...
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Opinion: We must dismantle BBC to reform it
If the BBC has been feeling a little cursed of late it can at least feel blessed in having Rupert Murdoch as an enemy. For the truth is that the BBC and Murdoch need to each other to justify their own...
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Clegg on the Last Leg – first thoughts
Well, I’d never seen The Last Leg before. I’ll be watching it again, though. It was very, very funny. And it’s not only trending on Twitter in the UK, it’s number 3 in the World. There are two...
View ArticleA few quick thoughts on last night’s Dispatches
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme last night featured the attempts of one business man to give lots of money to Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. The programme has already led to Liberal...
View ArticleA chance to take part in Channel 4/Shout Out Youth Leaders’ debate
We’ve been contacted by Shout Out, a news network for young people who are looking for audience members for a youth leaders’ debate they are holding a week on Tuesday, 28th April, at 8pm in Central...
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Let’s defend the underdog – Channel 4
If you’ve tuned your telly to Channel 4 recently, there’s a good chance you would have seen a dog in a suit, interviewing Channel 4 stars about the virtues of the channel. You can see the ‘Underdog’...
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Laws: Cameron was frightened of Boris
I just happened upon the tail end of Michael Crick’s Channel 4 programme about the relationship between Cameron and Boris. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of it. The programme contains an...
View ArticleCommentIsLinked@LDV: James Graham on the Channel 4/YouGov poll of marginals
Over at the Channel 4 News politics website, Lib Dem blogger James Graham gives his brief take on the latest YouGov poll of Conservative-Labour marginals showing Labour on 36% (-2% since Oct ’08), the...
View ArticleLive from Vince’s crowded mantelpiece
We asked you to submit the coronation plans, and you did. Now, to the universal and overwhelming lack of surprise of the entire political world, Vince Cable has won the Channel 4 News Political Impact...
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Televised party leader debates: get your worms at the ready
The “worm” is an instant poll tracker which wriggles across people’s TV screens, showing the net negative or positive reaction of a small group of the public to what is happening on screen. Running a...
View ArticleOaten reduced to tears in new Channel 4 documentary
The Sun reports today, with unsubtle snideness, on a new Channel 4 documentary, Tower Block Of Commons, in which ‘four pampered MPs were reduced to tears and tantrums when they swapped their grace and...
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