How to be a successful blogger

London, UK

Iain Dale explains how to make it as a top blogger. This interview was recorded at the beginning of 2008.

Specialist Speakers

London, UK

You maybe interested to know that I'm now doing some blogging for Specialist Speakers. This is the speakers agency who represent Geoff Burch and Iain Dale.

As you will have seen here and at Jeremy Jacobs.com, Geoff Burch has a new tv series which starts this Tuesday, October 21st on BBC2 at 7.30pm. Details of the programme are up at the Specialist Speakers blog here

Iain Dale on War Films

Iain Dale in conversation on Leicester Square Television with presenter Jeremy Jacobs

Iain Dale on West Ham United

London, UK

Iain Dale chats to me about his other great passion - West Ham. Here he is discussing his West Ham blog.

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Iain Dale and Jeremy Jacobs

London, UK

More from Iain Dale. This time Iain chats to me about getting those career breaks.

Iain Dale's Diary: Quotes of the Day

Iain Dale's Diary: Quotes of the Day


Iain should have been with me at Leicester Square last night. He would have heard Russell Brand exclaim: "a lost Bronte sister - Bev Bronte".

Iain Dale's Birthday, July 15th

Many happy returns Iain.

And tomorrow is Monday when 18DoughtyStreet will be showing the so-called Palestinian Ambassador (sorry but I thought only countries had ambassadors) who is going to promote the continued shelling of Israeli towns and cities.

I wonder if 18Doughty Street will have the good grace to interview someone about the truth behind the "Palestinian" problem.

18 Doughty Street

Arrived back home at around 1.00am after a two-hour stint with Iain Dale. One hour on Vox Politix and then with the two other guests, Simon Marcus and Nicholas Bennett on the End of the Day show.

18 Doughty Street is growing in popularity. If you want to see the "best of yesterday's" programmes then click on the widget at the website or on the left!

West Ham staying up - but for how long?

Iain Dale is right to be happy with his teams recent monumental effort in avoiding relegation from the top flight of English football. But, many of us football purists are unhappy with West Ham escaping a 3-point deduction over the Tevez affair. My views on the matter are made clear over at his West Ham blog.

Now we have to wait and see whether other clubs join Sheffield United in their proposed legal battle with the footballing authorities.

Quote of the Day

On Iain Dale's site today, there's a few beauties including this from Paddy Ashdown.

"We have a Prime Minister who ignores international law when he feels like it, disregarding the findings of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, turning a blind eye to US abuse of human rights in Guantanamo Bay, and failing to condemn the Israeli invasion of Lebanon" - Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader.

Of course, I'm taking issue on his point about Israel. Now let me see, you have a bunch of murderous swines called Hezbollah who unleashed a vicious attack on Israel. What do you expect Israel to do? It's a bit like the Americans not condemning Britain for destroying the Luftwaffe in September 1940.

Moving on to a more frivolous "quote of the day", I loved the one by Michael Portillo about Gordon Brown. "He has the charisma of a coffin lid".