Happy New Year to all readers and writers of Political Promise. Thank you for your support, comments and contributions. In two years, we blazed the trail to get our voices heard, set the news agenda and make some good friends in the process. After much deliberation, and on the 2 year anniversary of the site’s setting up, I have decided to shut up shop. Unlike most sites, which vanish mysteriously, I will keep the site running so the articles (of varying degrees of quality) can remain active and published. I am going to concentrate on writing on other platforms (if they’ll have me) and university. I want to thank Matt and Will who gave me the inspiration to do it, Sam and Lewis for making me realise it was time to stop, Jamie for designing our magazine and general persistance of me, Declan and Ani the only official-est members of PP staff and all the writers. But thank you, most of all, for reading.
…a club remix of Margaret Thatcher’s ‘no confidence debate’ in November 1990! (Featuring a terrible impression of John Major and a random girl fist-pumping)
Yesterday, Political Promise published one of the last pictures taken of Libya’s former leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, along with news websites, blogs and television channels across the world. I apologise if that picture caused you any distress, dear reader, I take full responsibility for what is published on this site. However, the merciless need to attack the media whiffs of rank hypocrisy. Journalists may not be everyone’s cup of tea at the moment as the latest hacking revelations are uncovered, but the news must be reported. For the people who showed courage and save lives from the rubble of the twin towers, should we not published pictures of the planes? For the Libyan people, with “the courage of lions” celebrating freedom this morning, should we not distribute the last images of their tyrant’s downfall? We did not celebrate his death, we did not blog about which dictator is next, just the facts.
What a year it has been for Political Promise. We have reached over 100,000 computer screens across the UK and have built a network of hundreds of students who have had articles published. Please please please vote for us in the Total Politics Blog Awards 2011 and if you want to get involved and write for PP, get in touch.
Approximately 4.30 GMT, an tiny troop of Americans attacked a compound in Pakistan which they believed housed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and man responsible for thousands of deaths through terrorism. After a short “firefight”, Bin Laden was killed. Read the rest of this entry »
We will have original stories and videos, as well as a library of the best political videos on the net, so if you have any suggestions for a video, story or category, let us know. As well as blog contributors, we are now looking for video contributors and archivists. If you want to produce videos for our channel or help us put together our youtube political archives, email us!
On Thursday, Moody’s issued a report on the state of Britain’s economy and issued a warning that Britain’s coveted AAA rating was under threat, writes Ust Oldfield. Read the rest of this entry »
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