The Birmingham Post: right or left of centre?

By Marc Reeves on Mar 4, 08 05:58 PM in

My colleague Jo Geary (we call her the Post's 'blog nanny') discusses the early days of the Post's blogging community here .
Seems a few people think we don't have enough right-of-centre views represented on the site.
As an aside, Wikipedia until recently described the Post as a 'left-of-centre' paper. I changed that to 'free market'.
What do you think best sums up the Post's political stance?

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Jon Bounds said:

I think I see the Post as fairly politically neutral.

It's seen as Bbad form editing your own Wikipedia page, Marc. ;) (You might have changed the web address while you were at it at least...)

March 4, 2008 7:53 PM

Joanna Geary said:

Jon Walker would know this better than I, but I believe both sides of the House of Commons have claimed the paper as their own. Perhaps that says more about the politics of UK mainstream parties than about where the Post stands on the political scale.

"Blog Nanny"...hmmm... not sure I like that. Kinda brings to mind this horror.

March 4, 2008 9:44 PM

NickC said:

I remember once refereeing a football match. At the end of the match the captains from both sides came to me independently and said I had been biased to the opposing side. I left the field happy!

March 5, 2008 1:44 PM

peter said:

the post is typical of most of the press run by middle class left wing liberals with there own politacal agenda,you never hear the voices or concerns about working class white people in this city reflected in your comments sections you always seem to pander to minority groups giving there points of views,in fact i and many people i know feel like 4th class citizens in this country and city.. peter from northfield in birmingham

March 6, 2008 2:26 AM

Roshan Doug said:

Peter. Have a look at my post on white working class point of view re Sparkhill. you might like it. Roshan Doug

March 9, 2008 8:13 PM

Roshan Doug said:

interesting piece, Marc. I think it's difficult to define the Birmingham Post as either left or right wing partly, I think, because - on the agenda pages at least - you have a wide range of perspectives from people from various fields. I think there's a danger when you can define a newspaper politically. You know it's going to have an agenda of its own...

March 9, 2008 8:21 PM