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With the long Bank Holiday weekend behind us, Sunday's Observer piece by Hazel Blears already seems like a distant memory. 'YouTube if you want to,' she wrote - somewhat provocatively, on the weekend we recall Margaret Thatcher's ascension to Downing Street. Quite a soundbite, especially considering her reflection in that same piece that: 'No government [...] read on »

At 11:30 this morning, Hazel Blears burst onto the Twitter scene. Six hours later, and we're already up to her tenth tweet on the microblogging service. I feel as if my entire afternoon has been punctuated by the latest update on what Hazel is doing. Or indeed, not doing. I'm all for departments experimenting with Twitter... [...] read on »

Writing on Comment Is Free, Hazel Blears reckons Labour's problem is that it has become distanced from its voters. 'The problem is the powerlessness within the system for the majority of people,' she writes. 'People feel that their views disappear into a black hole, without the slightest echo.' Hazel's solution is 'a healthy dose of direct [...] read on »