Articles tagged Derek Draper:
Derek Draper's Funeral: The Gathering of the New Labour Clans
- 4 Feb 2024
Political parties are like tribes. They defend their own. And in times of stress they circle the wagons and whatever the facts are, whatever the pressures, whatever someone has done wrong, they find excuses and explanations. I was once a very tribal being. Much less so nowaday...
Reaction Media Column 44: 'Finding Derek'
- 31 Mar 2021
This article first appeared on Reaction. Finding Derek, ITV1 & ITV Hub I’m going to be honest, I have put off writing this column because it’s not easy writing about two people, one of whom I regard as a new friend. The other is a former political enemy, who once tri...
Cabinet Office Reveals Dale McBride/Draper Emails
- 19 May 2009
On 27 March I emailed Damian McBride informing him I was putting in a Freedom of Information & Data Protection request to find out the contents of emails he had been sending to Derek Draper relating to me, over the Carol Thatcher Today programme interview. I was told that ...
Derek Draper Says Sorry
- 15 May 2009
Andrew Pierce has written a piece for the Telegraph today about Derek Draper's apology for the racism jibe against me. Mr Draper wrote: "While I do think it is right that we hold our opponents accountable our tone has sometimes been wrong. On the specifics of Iain Dale...
Interview with Labour List
- 12 May 2009
I listened to your internet radio show the other day. Are you trying to become the British Rush Limbaugh? No, I’m not! I’m not trying to be a US style shock-jock but the fact is that on the internet you can be opinionated. You can do a three-minute monologue about what you ...
Best Wishes to LabourList & Let's Lay Off Derek Draper
- 7 May 2009
Following the confirmation of my story yesterday afternoon that Derek Draper has resigned as editor of LabourList, I just want to scribble a few final words on the issue. First of all, let's show a bit of human compassion towards Derek. It's not nice to kick a man when...
Draper & Watson Call in the Lawyers to Put Pressure on the Media
- 13 Apr 2009
From Nadine's blog... 5 Live called to say they were being leaned on by lawyers with regard to any reference to Tom Watson MP and before I went on, would I just be aware of that. I asked them what they wanted me to do with that information and were they saying I cou...
Telegraph Column: Damian McBride scandal: Fatal flaws of the PM's pitbull
- 12 Apr 2009
Thanks to Damian McBride and Derek Draper, whom I like to think of as the Dick Dastardly and Mutley of British politics, I have had to abort my Easter plans. You see, I was their first victim. Before I explain how, let's rewind a few months. Last October I met Draper for lu...
SmearGate: One Down, Two to Go
- 11 Apr 2009
The news that Damian McBride has resigned is welcome indeed, but it isn't the end of the matter. There are further serious questions which need to be asked, not least about the role of Tom Watson, who sat next to McBride in the Downing Street bunker and was allegedly mentioned...
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You...
- 11 Apr 2009
Plato (Correction: It was ConHome who first pointed this out) has just pointed out that I wrote THIS post speculating about the launch of a cyberwar by the Labour Party on the very day that someone (presumably Draper) registered http://www.theredrag.co.uk/ - 4 November 2008. ...