graham's Blog

BNP intimidating local Barking & Dagenham Paper

The BNP were out in force as they attempted to intimidate a local paper, Archant's Barking & Dagenham Recorder, into giving them a better press in the London elections.

Tomorrow's evening standard front page?


Ken's Party Election Broadcast

Ken's first party election broadcast went out last night.

I've (hopefully) embedded it below. You can also see it here and send it to all your friends!: http://www.kenlivingstone.com/broadcast

Ken: My proudest moment

I just saw this video of Ken on Sam Coates's blog and it made me laugh.

Worrying London election reporting from BBC

Ken’s had some pretty poor reporting in sections of the London press so far, so it’s a bit of a worry that the BBC appears to be following with some dodgy coverage of Ken’s bid for re-election.

The Tories want to take kids' bus passes

The GLA Tories are proposing budget cuts that would take away free bus travel to the under 18s in London.

Populus poll shows how Brown can win next election

There's some interesting stuff in the Times/Populus poll today. The headline only really shows the Labour/Tory position stable if you look at the longer trend, but the questions on Brown are interesting.

US mid-term election discussion thread

There doesn't seem to be much in the way of discussion of the US mid-term elections, so I thought I'd start an open discussion thread.

Tory MPs join BNP member in anti-EU group

A member of the BNP is listed as one of the public supporters of the Freedom Association's "Better off out campaign", along with several hard-core Tory anti-Europeans.

Story taken from The Daily


We need a different challenger to Brown

I'm very clear that Blair should go as soon as possible and that the Labour Party needs to reconnect with its grassroots to win another election. But I can't see how John McDonnell is the right person to do that.

Young Labour gets campaigning in NEC election

Controversy has been raging in the pages of Tribune over claims that Labour party staff have been campaigning for the Blair-friendly slate of hacks for the Labour Party NEC elections.