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How is your betting “P&L” six months in?
… and what the Sundays are saying We’re now halfway through the year, so this might be a good time to take stock of the betting “profit and loss” for the year. Are you up, down, or flat? And what has...
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Will Dave be going to Rebekah’s again this Christmas?
Guardian 20 Jan 2011 Have the politics of phone hacking changed? The Speccie’s James Forsyth has got a good take on the hacking affair on the Coffee House blog following the revelations about the...
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Will Rentoul approve of his paper’s front page?
Is the hacking scandal really Britain’s Watergate? As Twitter followers will know the Indy’s @JohnRentoul has created a whole niche on the net with his QTWTAIN – questions to which the answer is no....
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Could the Murdoch press be no more?
What are we to make of tonight’s rumours? There’s a mass of rumours going the rounds tonight about “something major” involving Rupert Murdoch’s main remaining UK newspaper titles – the Sun, Sunday...
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Will the scandal impact on public views of the press?
Mark Gill puts it in an international perspective The phone hacking scandal is unlikely to make a huge difference to the public’s view of the press. The chart below shows the proportion of people who...
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Will newspaper endorsements matter as much any more?
The Sun – May 6th 2010 Henry G Manson ponders about the post-scandal media world On Sunday, Damian Thompson, Editor of the Telegraph Blogs launched a striking attack on David Cameron and the News...
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Why weren’t ICM’s VI numbers in the Guardian print edition?
Is the paper embarrassed by what its pollster is finding? After yesterday’s article looking at what happened the last time pollsters were tested against real election results a PB regular contacted me...
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The ICM poll that the Guardian won’t print
Why the reluctance to reveal the numbers? Three weeks ago today the country’s most accurate pollster when judged against real elections, ICM, was completing its August political poll for the Guardian...
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After the resignation, what’s in the Sundays?
Could taxes on flights (and facelifts?) be a political battleground? Fox may be firmly back at home and on the backbenches (and how many of you had winning bets on his departure – or Hammond’s...
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Will Hunt have to go?
Is he set to become the 4th cabinet casualty? Rebekah Brooks’ testimony to the Leveson enquiry didn’t produce a smoking gun but will not have been at all comfortable listening for Jeremy Hunt. In...
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The other Olympic hero – James Murdoch
His support was central for Wiggins & co James Murdoch, son of Rupert, has had a pretty rough year in the UK so much so that the part that he personally has played in the development of British...
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This morning’s must watch political TV: The Marr Show newspaper review
Thanks to Fitalass on the previous thread for highlighting this in today’s Sunday Mirror
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After the Mitchell resignation David Herdson asks: Who lied?
The Mail brings all the negative stories for the government into one common theme. Not good for Number 10. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 20, 2012 Who can’t we...
View ArticleTrust in BBC journalists declines sharply – but still ahead of every other...
Great table from YouGov on their “Trust Tracker”.Though there’s been a big decline BBC journos still most trusted twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 13, 2012 The...
View ArticleHow the same ComRes sample wanted both statutory media regulation AND a press...
Confused state of public opinon ahead of Leveson? Apparently contradictory findings from ComRes bit.ly/Y7DzLa twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 29, 2012 Whatever side...
View ArticleDave could be facing a big challenge winning support for press control...
The first post Leveson report poll suggests that Cameron might be on the wrong side of public opinion. twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 2, 2012 First Leveson polling...
View ArticlePoliticians should be less frightened of the national newspapers given that...
The press ain’t wot it used to be. Look at these declining circulation numbers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n… twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 2, 2012 EdM re-takes...
View ArticleThe Andrew Mitchell affair – this Channel 4 report is a must watch
No 10 “allegations a serving police officer posed as member of public and fabricated evidence against a Cab Min are exceptionally serious”. — Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) December 18, 2012 There...
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