Entries from July 2009 ↓

Made up story in the Sunday Times

This reference to me in this Sunday Times story by a Jon Ungoed Thomas is just made up. He didn’t even bother to check his facts with me. Pathetic but sadly not surprising any more.

UPDATE: This comment has been left on my Facebook site by a member of the parliamentary press gallery:

“Given it was a non-sitting Friday at Westminster and I know you were seen leaving for the constituency on Thursday evening by a News International hack, we can safely assume the story about you in the Sunday Times was indeed made-up!”

Secret Tory deal to reverse hunt ban

The Mirror reports that the Tories will, in fact reverse the ban on hunting with dogs.

Conservatives: Outsource your medical records to Microsoft

Amazing piece of PR from the Conservatives this morning that for me, epitomises the Tory project. The story in the Times - “Google or Microsoft could hold NHS records” is a hoot. It’s basically a boring outsourcing story wrapped up in a shiny, cool social media type facade. PR genius. And so post-bureaucratic age. Not sure I’d want my medical records held in the cloud though.