https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/ A blog and forum en Copyright 2007 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:59:07 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss As non-election fever dies down, Psephologist Professor John Curtice offers a few observations about the outcome of the past couple of weeks. Labour's early election project always looked a rather dubious enterprise. On average the party's lead over the Conservatives... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/10/partisan_excitement_no_friend_of_cool_calculation.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/10/partisan_excitement_no_friend_of_cool_calculation.html Politics Corner Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:59:07 +0000 I owe an apology – of sorts – to Alastair Campbell. When his diaries came out last month, nobody had much time to read them. On the Monday of publication I managed about 200 pages (out of more than 750),... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/the_pages_of_spin.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/the_pages_of_spin.html Politics Corner Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:55:56 +0000 Gordon Brown's refusal to rule out a snap election means the guessing game will continue - until his conference speech at least. And while the poll dance goes on, so all the parties must pretend they're ready and up for... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/guess_gordons_election_date.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/guess_gordons_election_date.html Politics Corner Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:14:05 +0000 A viewer, Dan Bindman, has written to say that the Conservative candidate in the Ealing by-election, Tony Lit, wasn’t even qualified to stand - at least not under Conservative Party rules. As everyone knows, Mr Lit only joined the party... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/illegal_candidate.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/08/illegal_candidate.html Politics Corner Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:50:14 +0000 The death of Lord (David Renton) in May meant that, by my reckoning, only three MPs from the famous 1945 election are still alive - all Labour. In the last few months we have lost both Renton and Douglas Dodds-Parker,... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/07/parliamentary_long_service.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/07/parliamentary_long_service.html Politics Corner Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:49:53 +0000 Perhaps the biggest surprise in the Cabinet reshuffle was former Newsnight producer Shaun Woodward as Northern Ireland Secretary, though I can't help feeling it's no longer really a full Cabinet job. Peter Hain, after all, combined Northern Ireland with Wales,... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/07/reshuffle_thoughts.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/07/reshuffle_thoughts.html Politics Corner Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:20:36 +0000 "So you'll be the first set of brothers in Cabinet since the Stanleys," I teased Ed Miliband the other evening, referring to the speculation that he would soon join his brother David in the new Gordon Brown Cabinet. Ed Miliband... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/cabinet_brothers.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/cabinet_brothers.html Politics Corner Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:46:11 +0000 Gordon Brown pledged at the Labour conference in Manchester to introduce one-member-one-vote in the party's policy making procedures - the same method, he said, as used to elect the party leadership. Er, some problem with that surely? The leadership isn't... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/one_member_how_many_votes.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/one_member_how_many_votes.html Politics Corner Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:47:55 +0000 This week's revelation that Gordon Brown has been trying to lure Lib Dems into his government came as something of a relief to me personally (though let me stress that I make no comment on whether it's a good or... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/shadowy_cabinets.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/shadowy_cabinets.html Politics Corner Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:46:36 +0000 John Reid may be the great bruiser and hardman of British politics, but he doesn’t frighten everyone. I hear that on the evening of the Scottish elections he and the Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell went for a curry in... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/reid_humbled.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/reid_humbled.html Politics Corner Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:42:29 +0000 Labour unexpectedly lost a vote in the House of Lords last night - on the Greater London Authority Bill - despite having won a vote on the same legislation earlier in the evening. The problem, I'm told, is that in... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/levy_causes_further_embarrassment_to_government.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/06/levy_causes_further_embarrassment_to_government.html Politics Corner Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:49:24 +0000 Everyone keeps going on about Gordon Brown having "Macavity the cat-like qualities"; a reference to T.S. Eliot's most elusive of characters. Lord Turnbull did it in a much publicised interview with the Financial Times recently, off the back of which... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/macavity_was_here.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/macavity_was_here.html Politics Corner Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:30:15 +0000 On Wednesday's Newsnight the political blogger Guido Fawke's suggested that the BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson was the source of a story he featured on his blog about Downing Street having a second email system. You can see the film... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/guido_fawkes_apologises_to_bbcs_political_editor.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/guido_fawkes_apologises_to_bbcs_political_editor.html Politics Corner Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:03:27 +0000 On Wednesday's Newsnight controversial political blogger Guido Fawkes explained why he believes political journalists are short changing the public. He says because he does not interview politicians he does not have to worry about offending them and can therefore tell... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/political_journalism_guido_fawkes_accuses.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/political_journalism_guido_fawkes_accuses.html Politics Corner Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:35:47 +0000 Why can the media no longer show that photo of David Cameron in the Bullingdon club? Tonight Newsnight reveals the painting we've specially commissioned, an artistic alternative to the photo that legally we're no longer permitted to broadcast. Two and... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/bullingdon_and_blair.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/bullingdon_and_blair.html Politics Corner Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:22:45 +0000