Articles tagged Derek Draper:
McBride & Draper: A Match Made in Hell
- 11 Apr 2009
Number Ten are seeking to play down the seriousness of McBridge-Gate, describing it as juvenile. The Telegraph and the BBC have fallen for the spin. No matter. They will revise their opinions when they see the contents of the emails which will presumably be published in tomorr...
Guido Fawkes, Me & the Number Ten Smears Against Top Tories
- 10 Apr 2009
The Telegraph is running a front page story tomorrow detailing a smear campaign by Number Ten against various Tory politicians. The story revolves around emails obtained by Guido Fawkes which show how the dirty tricks department of Number Ten have been running a Nixonian smear...
An Email to Damian McBride
- 27 Mar 2009
This is a copy of an email I have just sent to Damian McBride, the Prime Minister's Head of Strategy. On the Daily Politics yesterday, Guido Fawkes made an allegation that McBride had given Derek Draper his marching orders on how to trash my reputation as a blogger, and...
The Draper Slo-Mo Car Crash Continues
- 14 Feb 2009
Draper's having another one of his hissy fits over Guido's Friday Caption competition. And he is DEMANDING - yes, demanding, that I and ConHome remove our sidebar links to Guido. How very student union of him. He even shows graphics demonstrating that we link to Guido. What Dr...
What The Twitter Is Draper Up To?
- 6 Feb 2009
In his bizarre attempt to become the blogosphere's Mr Popular, Derek Draper's latest wheeze is to "follow" every single one of my Twitter followers. Some might consider this to breach Twitter's own rules. While I have been out this afternoon I have been deluged with Twitter...
Banned by Draper - My Life's Work is Complete
- 4 Feb 2009
Derek Draper should take some of his own psychotherapy. Having spent yesterday ranting at junior interns at the Taxpayers' Alliance, it seems that his Victim of the Day today is me. This is what he has just twittered... LabourList has suspended Iain Dale from our blogroll u...
Derek Draper Launches Labour List
- 9 Jan 2009
Gaby Hinsliff has the STORY for tomorrow's Observer that the much vaunted Derek Draper blog initiative launches this week. Draper himself will be the editor and seems to be modelling it very much on ConservativeHome. It's called LabourList.org and will call into question the f...
Will Derek Draper Be "Labour's Iain Dale"?
- 17 Dec 2008
My invite to Derek Draper's blogging breakfast seems to have got lost in the post. Guido and Harry Phibbs have all the details so I won't go into inordinate detail. But one thing struck me about the whole event. Doesn't it just illustrate the differences between the two phi...
My 2008 Conservative Conference Diary
- 30 Sep 2008
Conference Diary Sunday The trouble with party conferences is that it is very difficult to keep tabs with the media narrative. Most of the journalists I have met so far seem completely knackered and willing the party conference season to be over. I suspect that the big stor...