Andrea Leadsom, personal scrutiny and the pressures of modern British politics (The Conversation) (video)

Andrea Leadsom’s decision to withdraw from the Conservative Party leadership contest dramatically concluded the search for Britain’s next Prime Minister. But as Theresa May prepares to enter 10 Downing Street it’s worth reflecting on the levels of scrutiny now facing …

Andrew Marr’s interview frames Jeremy Corbyn as a 1980s throwback (video)

Andrew Marr‘s interview with Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, on his eponymously named show this morning was a masterclass in how to frame an interview to reflect the personal bias of the interviewer rather than to impartially elicit newsworthy information …

Danny Alexander: Soulless slimebag (video)

Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat and soulless enabling slimebag. ‘Nuff said. Related articles Nick Clegg’s Moral Manoeuvrability: Power At Any Price If Robert Peston thinks that it’s time to stop bashing the bankers he’s wrong Support for the Nazis and Andrew Wakefield, …

Truthiness: The Telegraph is guilty of lazy and biased journalism but, as ever, it’s all the fault of the BBC (video)

For the second consecutive Sunday (and several days in between) the Telegraph decided to lead it’s news agenda with what it and the Conservative party have decided is BBC liberal bias.  Claims of liberal bias at the BBC have been …

Eurosceptics & UKIP grateful for baby talk distraction as Tory review into EU powers comes up with ‘wrong’ answer

You may have missed it with all non-news around yesterday but the government quietly released the first part of its noisily conceived EU Competences Review. And guess what? It came out broadly in favour of the status quo! Peter Bone was livid …