Introducing Spectator Live
Peter Hoskin 5:00pm
Just to flag up to CoffeeHousers that we’ve launched a separate area to the
website: Spectator Live. Going to www.spectator.co.uk/live will open up what we hope will be your bulletin board for Election 2010. It collects all
election-related content from around the Spectator website – so posts from Coffee House, from our team of bloggers, and the like. But there are also a few new bells and whistles. Here’s
a quick guide to what you’ll find there:
The Spectator Panel
We’ve gathered a great selection of commentators from across the political spectrum to give their views on the unfolding campaign. They are: the journalist Gaby Hinsliff, ConservativeHome’s Tim Montgomerie, Left Foot Forward’s Will Straw, the Spectator’s own Wiki Man Rory Sutherland, and our infamous CCHQ insider Tamzin Lightwater. It should all add up to a fascinating and broad portrait of the entire election.
Coffee House Twitter feed
There’s now a Coffee House Twitter feed built into both Spectator Live and the traditional Coffee House page. Here, you’ll be able to read updates from the entire Coffee House team. You can follow us here.
The Daily Mash
As Alex put it the other day, there’s every chance this will be the Daily Mash election. So rather than compete with the UK’s best online satirists, we thought we’d bring them on board. In the Daily Mash section of Spectator Live, there will be an article a day for your enjoyment.
Mood-o-meter
Our scientifically rigorous mood-o-meter feature does exactly what it says on the tin: tracking the moods of David Cameron and Gordon Brown. Who’s up, who’s down? And why? The mood-o-meter reveals all.
PhiWire
We’ve borrowed this from our friends at PoliticsHome. It’s a rolling feed of all the political comment and breaking news from the blogosphere and beyond. If you’ve been to PoliticsHome before, you’ll know how it works. If not, I’m sure you’ll find it useful in no time.
Coffee House
You should know exactly what this is, but over at Spectator Live we’ve got what we think is a much prettier, much zippier version of Coffee House. You can order posts according to their chronology, their popularity and the number of comments on them. Or you can even use the navigation at the top of Spectator Live to find out what we were saying on a single day of the campaign.
Anyway, there’s plenty more besides – such as exclusive articles, videos, polls, that kind of thing – but they’re all quite self-explanatory. We do hope you like Spectator Live. And if you’ve got any questions, complaints or otherwise, do shoot us an email on phoskin @ spectator.co.uk or dblackburn @ spectator.co.uk
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Roger
April 9th, 2010 5:22pm Report this commentThis a tremendous addition Pete. Keep up the excellent work.
david morris
April 9th, 2010 5:43pm Report this commento/t (slightly) but still a chance for you to get ahead of Guido.
Calamity Bruin visits Smoothies this week & within a couple of days control of the company has been taken by Coca Cola.
Things go better with Coke * esp in Glasgie *
(* Geddit?)
Alex
April 9th, 2010 5:53pm Report this commentThis is a tremendous addition Pete.
Frank P
April 9th, 2010 8:27pm Report this commentSo yet another leftist hack (and dynastic one to boot)from the Gramscian lineage is given a platform to spout more prObama propaganda and attempt to keep the Long March on the move. Another Straw in the wind! Son of Strawman on the Speccie payroll??
Youse people are 'king unbelievable. The true colours are now truly nailed to the mast and I can only assume that our worst suspicions are realised - Cameron is indeed one of 'em! I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his 'eclectic' prattle was designed to catch votes and that he would revert to the Tory agenda once in power. I no longer believe that. You just lost him my vote. It matters not who wins this election, the same insidious douchebags will still be pulling the strings. We may as well have Brown back to stew in his own juice and rummage among the scorched earth - until the real revolution comes.
None of the fuckers are worth dragging my old bones up the polling booth for. Not even to spoil my ballot paper.
As for the Barclay Bros rags; in future they will never enter my domain, Andrew Neil will henceforth be persona non grata through my TV screen and as for this blog .... well. I shall miss a few of the CH 6+ but I'm fucked if I will waste any more time berating the Kuwaiti Tankers who host these pages. You're a lost cause. Will 'The Final' STRAW!! Jesus H Christ!
Tiberius
April 9th, 2010 9:03pm Report this commentI've just been browsing SpectatorLive, Pete and it's ideal for the run-up to the GE.
Frank P: when I felt physically sick on the morning on 2 May 1997, it wasn't just because my side has lost and lost big. It was because of what I suspected (largely correctly) the country was going to suffer for at least the next two Parliaments.
If Cameron wins it will stop that deterioration, but will none the less represent less than half of the reconstruction job required.
So whatever has so upset you, just support Cameron to get rid of Brown. Save your point of view for when it can matter - when the Tories are back in office.
Derek
April 10th, 2010 12:41am Report this commentA Farewell to Frank P
The language I have learned these forty years,
My native English, now I must forego;
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up,
Or being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now.--
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