Despite reports that FCO mandarins wouldn't allow it, David Miliband is to resume blogging at the Foreign Office, have previously done so at Defra:
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has promised to re-start his personal weblog after a gap of two months.
Mr Miliband stopped writing his blog after leaving his previous job of environment secretary in Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle in June.
But, during a 10 Downing Street webchat on Monday [which can be read here], he said it was important for the Foreign Office to "engage" people...
"I am completely committed to the idea that diplomacy needs to engage the public as well as diplomatic elite and also to the notion that I need to lead that in the Foreign Office. So the blog will be back, supplemented by other tools for discussion and debate." (BBC)
It better not cost the absurd amounts that it was before. That is truly a waste of money, especially considering the inanity of Miliband's pronouncements. Make it interesting and actually engage in the real blogging experience and don't let it cost us so much money - or don't bother doing it at all.Mr Miliband stopped writing his blog after leaving his previous job of environment secretary in Gordon Brown's Cabinet reshuffle in June.
But, during a 10 Downing Street webchat on Monday [which can be read here], he said it was important for the Foreign Office to "engage" people...
"I am completely committed to the idea that diplomacy needs to engage the public as well as diplomatic elite and also to the notion that I need to lead that in the Foreign Office. So the blog will be back, supplemented by other tools for discussion and debate." (BBC)
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Source: BBC
