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Two rather arcane points about Labour’s leadership election process

**NB: I wrote and published this before the results of the Labour leadership election were announced.** It looks like there will be a bit of a discussion about how Labour elects its leader in the next few weeks, especially if Ed Miliband wins. I don’t propose to explain it (not least because I’d get something […]

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The British Prime Minister isn’t a Community Manager

At the weekly ritual of Prime Minister’s Question Time, where Britain’s head of government is held to account, PM David Cameron condemned comments and pages on Facebook from users supporting murderer Raoul Moat. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: “It is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer, full stop, end of story.

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Election Notes: Something for the geeks.

I thought this graphic might be interesting to political geeks out there. It’s the visitors to nancyplatts.com (Brighton Pavilion’s Labour candidate) in the run up to the general election. I’ve taken the numbers off: consider this indicative. I didn’t really know what to expect trafficwise but this is quite useful and entirely as you might

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Election Notes 29/04/10: The battle of hustings

Anyone who cares about democracy is in favour of anything that breathes life into politics. That could be electoral reform, Twitter, public meetings, canvassing, men dressed in chicken suits. There are actually lots of ways of encouraging discussion and debate. All are good. I’m just not sure about hustings. I’m certain that they don’t deserve

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