Ben Back Blogging
Ben Brogan, the Daily Mail political editor is new to blogging and the Press Gazette has noticed [Gone fishin'? Certainly not gone bloggin']
Ben Brogan, political editor of the Daily Mail, hasn't quite got the hang of the latest craze at Westminster for setting up your own blog.
The best political bloggers — such as wannabe Tory MP Iain Dale and the mischievous Guido Fawkes — have updated their sites daily, even hourly, throughout the summer.
But Brogan is now finally back blogging after a month-long hiatus after last posting on 26 July. Curiously, he chose his last entry before his long break to write about MPs' lengthy 76-day holiday in a piece entitled Gone Fishin'.
Perhaps Brogan should take a leaf out of Sky News political editor Adam Boulton's book. He takes his blog so seriously that he was even updating it from his paradise island honeymoon with Tony Blair's exgatekeeper Anji Hunter.
Harder than you thought Ben? When you leave the blog it dies, that is why you have no traffic or comments...
Bloggers like Iain and Greenwhich.watch have scored a bullseye during silly season with the ongoing AEG/Dome/Prescott sleaze. Iain recently rather sniffily remarked to Guido "I see you are so short of gossip you have resorted to doing politics..."
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To be fair, Iain's pretty much right.
Guido, please don't do a Recess Monkey on us and end up resorting posting Beau Beau D'or photoshops every other day :( Your public demands of you the juiciest of juice.
Thanks for the link Guido. We've had our moment now, back to red-top recycle bin and road-sweepers for us!
Brogan's blog is boring uninformative shit anyway, so who cares. Go fishin' more often, Ben.
Guido - Your redirect page at www.order-order.com is broken.
When Ben Brogan was at the Telegraph he managed to end the nascent political career of a good friend of mine by breaking a spurious story on the front page in the middle of August. So I'm glad he wasn't up to such mischief again THIS silly season!
More fool Adam Boulton! I notice Nick Robinson simply passed his blog on to a more lowly hack to do while he's away! But then, the Beeb do have many more hacks around...
Nothing wrong with blogging on honeymoon.
Though it can prove to be very costly in making it up to your wife as I found in Australia this Feb!
Leave Ben alone, Guido - he's very busy copying out PA stories
His is not the only blog not updated recently.
Labour's Dave the Chameleon blog hasn't been touched since 5 July. They probably realise belatedly that there is no mileage in it, that it is having no effect upon the Conservative lead, and that, if anything, the chameleon character is quite cute.
I predict the Chameleon will be quietly dropped prior to the conference season.
Now, boys, play nicely together. It's a big sandbox, plenty of digging space for everyone.
Some of your political posts have been head and shoulders above everything else out there. When did you hire an assistant?
Bloody hell, if he did it's news to me; I applied ages ago. I thought he was going to work for Boris anyway.
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