UK Politics Radar

Blogging audiences

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Iain Dale is entirely right to say that blogging is not really a number’s game. He is right for all the reasons he mentions. The one area I would suggest adding to Dale’s account is the blog as purely a personal thing-…

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H.H Asquith and Gordon Brown

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Martin Kettle argues in today’s Guardian that Gordon Brown risks facing the fate of Herbert Henry Asquith in the early twentieth century. I think that Kettle seriously underestimates Asquith and overestimates Brown’s…

Britblog

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Apologies for being late with this, but as the Tin Drummer suggests Blogging is harder than it looks. Having said that, here goes with this latest series in the Britblog roundup- I hope you enjoy- there is everything…

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Milosevic on Trial

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Slobodan Milosevic was an awful tyrant- one of the worst that the world has seen and his condemnation throughout the globe (excluding perhaps Serbia and Russia) was deserved. He sanctioned the deaths of hundreds of…

Taxation in the Early Middle Ages

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I know that this does not sound like the most glamorous of subjects- but actually I think that this is one of the more interesting findings that has recently come out of history. Its central to the way that we…

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