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This is an idea for a new non-partisan (or cross-party) group blog to cover Welsh Politics.

Most people know that I have been running a blog aggregator (politics-wales.co.uk) for a couple of years, with a combined Welsh Politics news feed at feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales.

At present the site has a problem in that it has been auto-hacked through a weakness in the version of Wordpress used. I can clear it out, but it will take a full day to rebuild the site in another, clean, account. I can build a brand new blog in less time than that.

I am wondering if now - 1 year before a General Election - is a suitable time to move the politics-wales site over from being a pure aggregator to being a political group blog about Welsh Politics, since I can build one of those just as easily. This seems to me to be a gap in the market in commentary on Welsh Politics.

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A New Group Blog for Welsh Politics ?

MySociety, the non-profit organisation lead by Tom Steinberg, has redesigned their TheyWorkforYou.com website with data about UK Parliamentary politics.

The site provides easily accessible records of the UK Parliamentary process, and now contains data going back to 1935.

Political anoraks are going to rub their hands in anticipation, and probably lose the entire weekend to anoractivities (sorry).

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TheyWorkForYou.com overhauled by MySociety: Extends back to 1935

This is an idea for a new non-partisan (or cross-party) group blog to cover Welsh Politics.

Most people know that I have been running a blog aggregator (politics-wales.co.uk) for a couple of years, with a combined Welsh Politics news feed at feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales.

At present the site has a problem in that it has been auto-hacked through a weakness in the version of Wordpress used. I can clear it out, but it will take a full day to rebuild the site in another, clean, account. I can build a brand new blog in less time than that.

I am wondering if now - 1 year before a General Election - is a suitable time to move the politics-wales site over from being a pure aggregator to being a political group blog about Welsh Politics, since I can build one of those just as easily. This seems to me to be a gap in the market in commentary on Welsh Politics.

Post from: The Wardman Wire

A New Group Blog for Welsh Politics ?

This is an idea for a new non-partisan (or cross-party) group blog to cover Welsh Politics.

Most people know that I have been running a blog aggregator (politics-wales.co.uk) for a couple of years, with a combined Welsh Politics news feed at feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales.

At present the site has a problem in that it has been auto-hacked through a weakness in the version of Wordpress used. I can clear it out, but it will take a full day to rebuild the site in another, clean, account. I can build a brand new blog in less time than that.

I am wondering if now - 1 year before a General Election - is a suitable time to move the politics-wales site over from being a pure aggregator to being a political group blog about Welsh Politics, since I can build one of those just as easily. This seems to me to be a gap in the market in commentary on Welsh Politics.

Post from: The Wardman Wire

A New Group Blog for Welsh Politics ?

This is an idea for a new non-partisan (or cross-party) group blog to cover Welsh Politics.

Most people know that I have been running a blog aggregator (politics-wales.co.uk) for a couple of years, with a combined Welsh Politics news feed at feeds.feedburner.com/politics-wales.

At present the site has a problem in that it has been auto-hacked through a weakness in the version of Wordpress used. I can clear it out, but it will take a full day to rebuild the site in another, clean, account. I can build a brand new blog in less time than that.

I am wondering if now - 1 year before a General Election - is a suitable time to move the politics-wales site over from being a pure aggregator to being a political group blog about Welsh Politics, since I can build one of those just as easily. This seems to me to be a gap in the market in commentary on Welsh Politics.

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A New Group Blog for Welsh Politics ?

This is a Twitter archive of conversation aournd BBC Question Time of Thursday 25th June 2009.

David Dimbleby will be joined in Thursday 25 June by Jim Knight, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, Julia Goldsworthy, Leanne Wood and Kelvin MacKenzie.

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BBC Question Time Thursday 25 June 2009 Twitter Archive #bbcqt

If you enter the question “is the BNP racist ” into the Google search engine, and click the “I feel lucky” button, it will take you to the first result in the search.

At present this is an item on the BNP website which attempts to justify the British National Party’s position. The same happens if you type “is the BNP racist ” into the address bar of a web browser by mistake.

This article looks at the claims made in that article that the British National Party is not racist, through the lens of the claims made, and through the Constitution which forms the basis of the BNP’s own values.

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Is the BNP Racist? : The British National Party

This is a guest post from Doug Chaplin, who blogs at Clayboy.
I am slightly puzzled by the complete silence of the UK’s political blogs – at least the main ones I read – about the rumours of a potential prosecution of the BNP. One can only suppose they are still distracted by the in-House navel-gazing [...]

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Memo to Establishment: don’t give the BNP what it craves (Doug Chaplin)