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Guido-Tom Watson consensus on gov jobs?

One senses there’s not a lot of love between Guido Fawkes and Tom Watson. So it’s all the more remarkable that, within a few days, they’ve effectively reached an identical conclusion on the need for a better approach to public sector job advertising. A week ago, Tom wrote a blog post noting the lack of a [...] read on »

Meet the mainstream

Just to draw your attention to the latest website traffic numbers published by Guido Fawkes and Iain Dale. Now I’ve no desire to stir up previous arguments about statistical validity, certainly not here. But I do note Guido ’s observation that his blog is now more popular than ITN, and Iain Dale attracts more traffic [...] read on »

Liveblogging the election results

Interesting to note some of the attempts to ‘live blog’ the election results last week - with Guido Fawkes, Slugger O’Toole and ConservativeHome all using CoverItLive’s fantastic liveblogging ‘app’. Needless to say, there’s significant variation in the tone of each site’s usage. Of course, it’s ironic to note both having a pop at Gordon Brown’s leadership [...] read on »

Playing party politics with hyperlinks

From the ‘you can’t win’ department… Guido today picks up on a piece by Shane Greer last week, claiming that ‘Brown uses Downing Street (web)site to promote Labour’. And what incendiary partisan material are we talking about, precisely? An external hyperlink. The No10 site has a page of Gordon Brown’s speeches. Or strictly, as it states [...] read on »