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The Fall of the News of the World has Political Ramifications too

As in every other western democracy, the internet has been wreaking havoc in the press in Britain. But there is no doubt that the papers are still extremely important in shaping and leading opinion in the United Kingdom and that has been reflected in sustained efforts by party leaders to be close to editors and proprietors of the major newspaper groups.
Posted on July 7, 2011 By Adrian McMenamin
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Stalked by Ignatieff

Six weeks ago, Michael Ignatieff could have had a reasonable expectation of becoming the next prime minister of Canada. Today, though, he is a former party leader and an ex-MP with a lot of spare time on his hands. Ignatieff, who resigned as leader of Canada’s Liberals yesterday, is a familiar face to many in Britain, as, for many years, he was a prominent cultural commentator and newspaper columnist here. And his fate must trouble several of Britain’s political leaders on the eve of tomorrow’s regional and local elections and a referendum on voting reform with the choice between “first past the post” (the system used in the UK, United States and Canada for most elections) and the “alternative vote” (used in Australia and maybe familiar to U.S. readers as “instant run-off”).
Posted on May 4, 2011 By Adrian McMenamin
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The Morning After the Night Before

The headlines in the UK this morning are dominated by the attack on the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall’s limo by student protestors . The picture of the shocked but physically unscathed couple is a perfect metaphor for the country’s coalition government which, last night, won a vote on raising the cap on university tuition fees but in the process seem to have been left psychologically scarred.
Posted on December 10, 2010 By Adrian McMenamin
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Cameron to Party and Country: You too Need to Work with Us ‘Two’

If there were a prize for the best speech to be delivered to a British party conference this autumn, David Cameron would probably have won it this afternoon, but it has to be said that the competition was less than fierce.
Posted on October 6, 2010 By Adrian McMenamin
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Clegg’s ‘Stick With Us’ Message to Nervous Liberal Democrats

The immediate aftermath of a British party leader’s party conference speech is a bad time to say anything critical. In 2007 Gordon Brown’s speech to the Labour Party – the first he made as Prime Minister – was really rather dismal and yet it was celebrated as a mini-triumph in the mass media. Only in the succeeding weeks did people start to point out the emperor was not wearing very much.
Posted on September 20, 2010 By Adrian McMenamin
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UK Election 2010: Queen’s Speech

With a new coalition government in place in the United Kingdom, the Queen has called Parliament into session and we get our first look at the new political agenda for Britain.
Posted on May 26, 2010 By David King
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