Last year, I worked on The Slugger O’Toole awards as it’s promoter. You can find a report on last year’s event and download our impact report from here. The idea of ‘catching politicians being good’ is something I’ve been keen on for a long time, and Slugger was the perfect vehicle for this. Mick Fealty [...]

The planning for the 2009 Slugger O’Toole Awards has begun in earnest.  The 2008 awards were a terrific success, underlining Slugger‘s status as a blog that is positively engaged with the political process. Where recent press headlines have focussed upon the anti-political nature of some of the more nihilistic high-volume political blogs – and the [...]