Damian McBride

Lobby Jobbies…

August 4, 2010

The Fourth Estate, with its continuum line from radical Grub Street through investigatory Fleet Street to compliant Canary Wharf, has no formal constitutional role, but is popularly supposed to hold Parliament and the government to account. Journalists would tell you that they ‘speak truth unto power’. The Lobby pack, the 170 journalists who hold parliamentary [...]

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Fairy Tales and Spin-Meisters.

April 3, 2010

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time, we relied on the story teller for both news and education; we called him a troubadour. He travelled from market place to market place, alternately educating, advising, and passing on gossip. Around the beginning of the 19th C, the role of story teller changed [...]

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Spawned by Damian McBride no doubt…….

May 26, 2009
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Wikipedia have just admitted that a Labour apparatchik named David Boothroyd, councillor for Westminster’s Westbourne ward, has resigned after being revealed as the person behind the alias ‘Sam Blacketer’ who was involved in editing the on-line encyclopaedia. Under the name Sam Blacketer, Labour soldier David Boothroyd edited one particular article more than any other: the [...]

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The ethics of the unethical.

May 8, 2009
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I am trying to fathom the moral compass of the Daily Telegraph. The needle swings too fast for me to read it correctly. Last month they were coming over all ‘sniffy’ and not only declining to ‘entertain’ the McBridal bouquet that Guido lobbed at Gordon Brown, but went so far as to break a confidentiality [...]

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‘Whoosh-Clunk’ another of the McMafia disappears.

May 7, 2009

Damian McBride, the Downing Street aide forced to quit over e-mails smearing top Tories, has “disappeared without a trace”, a senior Labour MP has said. Tony Wright said he had wanted Mr McBride to give evidence to the Commons public administration committee. He “seems to have disappeared without a trace and despite our best endeavours [...]

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Life on the open blog…….

April 20, 2009

Blogging is the quintessential egalitarian occupation. It is free, open to all, and the anonymity allows for the perfect meritocracy. It should come naturally for Nu-Labourites with their espousal of the creed of a classless society. Yet it doesn’t. Labourlist was not ‘Derek the Pyjamahideen’ in his bedroom, it was state – and union – sponsored astro-turfing. Senior [...]

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’  Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt. The Sunday Times today is printing ‘heavily denied’ allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the  “dark arts” operation [...]

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