It was an interesting leap from the shenanigans in Falkirk Constituency Labour Party to proposing a restriction on MP’s outside interests, but it was a leap Ed Miliband made two … Read the rest
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For my final year dissertation I chose to look at what use MPs’ are making of social media. Focussing on their use of Twitter, I set … Read the rest
Image by Shawn Campbell
For my final year dissertation I chose to look at what use MPs’ are making of social media. Focussing on their use of Twitter, I set … Read the rest
Image by Shawn Campbell
For my final year dissertation I chose to look at what use MPs’ are making of social media. Focussing on their use of Twitter, I set … Read the rest
On Friday, the Government Chief Whip, Patrick McLoughlin, spoke to students on our second year British Political Parties module. The next visiting speaker on that module is a former Chief … Read the rest
I recently spoke at the book launch for Paul Flynn’s latest book How to be an MP. It was, people think, the first book launch held in the Speaker’s … Read the rest
As our last post indicated, the MPs’ expenses scandal of 2009 inflicted damage to popular perceptions of politicians. But what impact has the phone hacking scandal had?
Despite the … Read the rest
In the last couple of years there have been three major events in British politics: the MPs’ expenses scandal of 2009, the 2010 General Election and the phone hacking scandal … Read the rest
Yesterday evening, Radio 4’s Four Thought – which you can listen to here – featured a lecture about a teenager from Hull who back in 2003 had taken to writing … Read the rest
This Tuesday’s Independent contained what was for the most part a by-the-numbers article about parliamentary whipping; it managed to squeeze in references to ‘fear’, ‘submission’, ‘the little black book’, … Read the rest