Category Archives: Tories! Tories! Tories!
20 years of Bloggerheads: SOON! But first, this…
On 14 December 2021 I will be celebrating 20 years of blogging at bloggerheads.com Today I wish to apologise for those times when publication slowed to a complete stop or focused entirely on a specific crisis in my life, but … Continue reading
Jeremy Hunt’s views on false allegations of child rape in the name of Conservative activism
Jeremy Hunt sees himself as a leadership material: he has already been tested and found wanting. Recently, I had cause to stop using Twitter. The main problem is a user who persists in targeting me month after month, year after … Continue reading
Jonathan Lord and the Conservatives’ Code of Conduct
In 2006/7, when managing campaigns for Anne Milton and the Tories in Guildford, Jonathan Lord was made aware of two of his own candidates (Mike Chambers and Dennis Paul) involving themselves in false allegations of paedophilia and child rape against … Continue reading
Analysis of @UKLabour/@Conservatives Twitter output during #GE2017
(EARLIER: Word Clouds for Labour/Conservative party Twitter accounts during #GE2017) I write about politics and corruption and what have you, but when I’m not wearing my cape, I also do data analysis on keyword search data for SEO purposes and … Continue reading
Word Clouds for Labour/Conservative party Twitter accounts during #GE2017
I thought it would be interesting to have a summary of what the major parties are saying on Twitter during #GE2017, so here’s what I did: For both @Conservatives and @UKLabour, I took all tweets & replies from every day … Continue reading
Who censored David Davies’ Wikipedia profile anonymously?
[24 April 2017 – Someone’s still at it. See full update at end of post.] You may recall David Davies being in the news a few weeks back. Then again, you may not, and given the reason why he was … Continue reading
Theresa May, the ‘nasty party’, and a path to kinder, gentler politics
“You know what some people call us: the nasty party.” – Theresa May, speech to the Conservative Conference, 2002 For more than a decade I’ve been publishing warnings about the dark places social media will take us when politicians do … Continue reading
David Cameron’s not-so-independent inquiry into (some) bullying
Over the last few weeks, David Cameron has been under a lot of public pressure to deliver an independent inquiry into a bullying problem in his party. If you are new to this, here is an earlier post with all … Continue reading
Elliott Johnson, bullying complaints and the Conservative Party
I will get straight to the point. My concern is twofold: 1. I am concerned that Elliott Johnson complained to CCHQ that he was being bullied, was suddenly confronted with an escalation of bullying because someone at CCHQ had leaked … Continue reading
It’s time for the Conservatives to take bullying seriously
The Conservative Party is a deeply tribal organisation, which might in part explain why outsiders are targeted with bullying so often, and why the party apparatus at a local and national level works so effectively to protect those doing the … Continue reading
