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Guardian Is it time for the veteran broadcaster to bow out? The Guardian is reporting that David Dimbleby is in a row with the BBC over a plan to move the production centre of his weekly Question Time programme from London to Glasgow as part of the overall objectives to shift activities out of the capital. The paper reports that David Dimbleby is furious about the resignation of the QT editor Ed Havard, whom he hand-picked to run the show….

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Why go to Gateshead for today’s big event? One of the big political stories of the day has been the big speech by Ed Miliband in Gateshead at which we’ve seen a new Labour slogan (Helping families get on) and a new idea – the “British Promise“. The latter, he said, was the notion that that every generation will do better than the last – something that is now under threat. He argued that “there is now a real and…

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Is putting the emphasis on Clegg the right approach? Tim Montgomerie, originator of the above poster concepts and editor of the Michael Ashcroft-owned Conservativehome beleives that the best way to stop AV being introduced is for the NO camp to put the focus on Nick Clegg. He writes:“… A model is the defeat of the Maastricht Treaty in France in 1992. Maastricht wasn’t rejected because the French people had turned against the European project but because President Mitterrand was hated….

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Or will he be out within days? The drama in Tahrir Square being played out on TV screens round the world goes on but the latest news does not look good for the incumbent. The Egyptian Army chief has told the BBC that it will fire at pro-Mubarak ‘protestors’ if they attack anti-Mubarak protestors. That surely must signal the start of the end game. Without their support the president is surely finished. He says that he wants to serve out…

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BBC news Is TV experience key in the political PR battle? As someone who spent a chunk of my early career as a BBC journalist and editor I think that Cameron has made the right call in choosing a broadcasting news man to be head of communications at Number 10. The move is in sharp contrast with Ed Miliband who has recently appointed two senior newspapermen to fill his key communication roles. I’ve no knowledge of Craig Oliver himself but…

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