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Favourite politics blogs

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Iain Dale of Total Politics is keen to invite readers to vote for their favourite politics blogs.   If you would like to vote for your top ten, you can do so through this link.  If you think Lords of the Blog qualifies as a politics blog, and it is among your favourites, please feel free to include…

In the real world?

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I was asked to contribute a short article to the latest issue of Total Politics on whether or not political scientists (or what the magazine calls political academics) live in the real world.  I argued that they do.  Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle was invited to put the argument that that they don’t.   It wasn’t a…

In praise of the Lords

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Total Politics is a new monthly magazine; Iain Dale is the publisher.  The November issue has an article, ‘Why we need the House of Lords’, by David Seymour, former political editor of the Mirror group.  As he admits, he has moved from being a committed advocate of Lords reform to being a supporter of the present…