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So Damian McBride appears to have been taken down by the blogger he was considering trying to emulate. It's being reported that McBride's emails were sent from his official Downing Street email account. If so, that's a naive error to have made: partly because it leaves him open to (valid) accusations of misusing public resources, and [...] read on »

In the red corner, fighting out of Berkeley, California, the challenger - Derek Draper. His opponent, heavyweight champion of the Blogosphere, Paul 'Guido' Staines. Your referee for this afternoon's contest is Mr Andrew Neil. When the BBC's Daily Politics finally brought two of political blogging's most inflammatory characters face to face, sparks inevitably flew: see the [...] read on »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »