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Week on the web
Andrew Alexander
The week ended with some good polling news for the Tories, indifferent for Labour and pretty bad for the Liberal Democrats.
Stephen Tall at Lib Dem Voice says that the view on Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne from party supporters - a fairly resounding 'no idea' - is based on too small a sample to be of much use.
But with the expectation that a dynamic new leader will stem the flow of public opinion away from the Lib Dems, Political Betting wonders if Brown suffered from winning the Labour leadership unopposed?
Mystery on that site this week, with news that contributor Jack W is standing down. The Guardian's Backbencher thinks she knows the true identity of Jack, who is "fairly well known in political life".
The hunt is on across the blogosphere, and the only clue from the comments on this post seems to be a connection with Harpenden.
Paul Linford started another minor craze with this post on the top 10 political misjudgements, headed by Callaghan's decision not to call an autumn election in 1978.
He links to the lists drawn up by other bloggers, here.
The Commons science and technology committee's hearing on abortion has been getting much attention this week, and pro-life MP and Tory committee member Nadine Dorries posts about it on her blog.
This continues to be one of the most refreshingly genuine of MPs blogs, although it also allows Dorries to raise the disturbing idea of a tower block where all MPs live side-by-side. "I wish..."
She was inspired by the annual release of MPs expenses, and Westmonster says the winner of the "They Spend it all on Whores" award for over-excited coverage goes to the Mail.
Dizzy has his own vol-au-vent league table, concluding that Harriet Harman is stingiest when it comes to government nibbles.
Another difficult week for Gordon Brown at PMQs, leading Iain Dale to give him some tips on Comment is Free.
The Guardian's well-refreshed lobby correspondent Bill Blanko, meanwhile, focuses on the badly-behaved Ian Austin. Brown's PPS, who has been repeatedly ticked off by the speaker, comes in for some criticism.
Last week some of the right-wing blogs savaged the Independent for reprinting an FCO briefing on its front page, and some of them are keeping up a sustained attack on liberal bias in the BBC.
Britain and America thinks the White House needs a news strategy to deal with the BBC and the Guardian, which launched Guardian America this week. The accompanying attack ad rather gamely suggests that BBC staff all arrive from the Guardian and only leave to go to the Labour Party.
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Published: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:34:22 GMT+01
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