1984: Revised and updated

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Blogs take over from dead trees

Not strictly George Stephenson world, but the success of political blogger Guido Fawkes in bringing down Gordon Brown's "McPoison" this weekend is seen by media academics as a sign of the growing maturity of the blogosphere, which can score direct explosive hits where the ailing and cash-strapped dead tree media are increasingly impotent (or in the case of the BBC being pressured by the Government).

More power to the gimlet Railway Eye.

So beware.

They may be watching us, but we are watching them...

Election postponed

So it rather looks as if the McBride scandal will put paid to Gordon's plans for an early election!

Big tip of the Bowler to Guido for exposing this disgraceful episode!

UPDATE: Tom Harris tells it like it is...

We screwed up, big time. We have no-one — absolutely no-one at all — to blame for this but ourselves. The damage the Labour Party and the government have sustained this last 24 hours has been entirely self-inflicted.

There is at least one honest man in politics.