Articles tagged 18 Doughty Street:

The Very Worst Kind of Gesture Politics

  • 22 Sep 2009

I've just got home from the LibDems to read of the row that has been developing of the purchase of 57% of ConservativeHome and PoliticsHome by Lord Ashcroft. Let's start with a declaration of interest. Lord Ashcroft owns 25% of my company Biteback Media, which publishes Total ...

Moving On from 18 Doughty Street

  • 3 Dec 2007

Earlier in the summer I was tidying some files at home and a copy of a magazine fell out of a file. It was called THE POLITICO and I published three issues of it while I was running Politico's in 2003. I started re-reading it and began to remember what a brilliant reaction it ...

My Rwanda Diary

  • 29 Jul 2007

DAY ONE I've just finished packing for my trip to Rwanda. We leave at 8pm tonight from Heathrow for an overnight flight to Nairobi and then an onward flight to Kigali. I'm going to Rwanda to make three films for 18 Doughty Street - one on the genocide, one on life in Rwa...

Great TV Moments: No 94

  • 5 May 2007

Never tell me that 18 Doughty Street isn't a totally professional organisation... The Microshaft Blog noticed something strange in our election coverage yesterday morning... Funniest part of the Election Coverage must go to Iain Dale at about 11ish this morning, whilst list...

Guardian Review of 18 Doughty Street by Dave Hill

  • 30 Oct 2006

The future of television, some part of it at least, lies behind a black door on the fringes of Bloomsbury. It is the front door to a house; a sturdy, terraced one in Doughty Street where also stands the office of the Spectator. For all this 19th-century solidity, though, the b...

BBC Online Reviews 18 Doughty Street

  • 6 Oct 2006

Unlike newspapers, radio and TV broadcasters in Britain are bound by strict rules on balance and impartiality. But next week, a political channel threatens to turn these sacred codes on their head. How? By broadcasting on the net. When did you last watch a rough and tumble ...

Sunday Times: 18 Doughty Street Launches

  • 4 Oct 2006

By Iain Dale is Presenter of Vox Politix on 18DoughtyStreet Talk TV     Political television in this country is on the decline. The BBC appears to think that it can only get ratings for political programmes if it invites comedians and celebrities to pontificate on gre...

First 18 Doughty Street Show in the Can

  • 26 Sep 2006

I  recorded my first pre-recorded programme for 18 DoughtyStreet Talk TV today. The interview was with Rodney Hide, the leader of ACT (the New Zealand Liberal Party) and his deputy, Heather Roy. ACT split from the NZ Labour Party in the early 1990s to pursue their own brand of...

New Political Internet TV Station To Be Launched

  • 22 Sep 2006

18 DOUGHTY STREET TALK TV - POLITICS FOR ADULTS - GROUNDBREAKING NEW CURRENT AFFAIRS TV CHANNEL TO BE LAUNCHED ON THE INTERNET   10th October will see the launch of Britain’s first political Internet TV Channel. 18DoughtyStreet Talk TV will broadcast for four hours a...