Catch Up With June
We’re up and running!
Hello and Welcome to Politics & the City, the team and I are so excited to be up and running, this site has been a real labor of love and we hope you’ll be pleased with the results. PATC fuses politics/news with entertainment, fashion and music, we understand how hard it is to keep abreast of what’s going on in the world, so hopefully we’ll be able to help you do just that.
Over the next few weeks we have blogs coming from an eclectic group of inspiring and interesting women including: Kylie and Danni Minogue, Kathy Lette, Shami Chakrabarti, Anna Friel, Jacqueline Gold, Baroness Amos, Theresa May MP and many more……
The first blog comes to us from British supermodel Lily Cole, being one of the most sought after models in the world Lily is forever on a plane and this time was no exception, she sent me her post via her Blackberry while about to take off from New York. She’s a great writer and a big music lover, her post is an informative yet humorous account of her week gig hopping.
We also have a new animation starting called Sally Dunn Accidental MP, it’s a sardonic tale of a butterfingered journalist who accidentally becomes MP for a tough London borough while trying to balance her ill-fated love life. It’s a funny light-hearted animated comedy I think you’ll enjoy.
Take a browse around the site familiarise yourself and we look forward to receiving any comments you may have.
Much Love,
Junexxxx
Fabulous idea for a website!
Hey June
Great to see the site up and running! All the best to you and all the team. Wishing politics and the city every success.
Cheers
Toby
What a fabulous idea, and I wish you all the very best. I tend to peek at http://www.wowowow.com but it will be great to have a home-grown and potentially more relevant alternative. I am looking forward to this!
Great idea for a website; I’ll definitely by checking this out regularly!!
xx
Hey !Girl keep it up wish you all the very best can’t wait.Kudos!!
Looking forwards to more great stuff…
Good luck!
Mehret
A great modern, fresh alternative to looking at politics - women ARE interested! Thanks June! Interesting website - wishing you all the best and keep us reading.
I love the girl-friendly website. I will be checking it out regularly.
A lots of flash on web site is not good.
I have some ideas on third world I will contact you for more info.
Good Luck and keep up a good work.
Gaspard
Great website. Brilliant idea. will definitely be checking it out regularly. Will you be having a Health Section?
All the best
Edith
Hey Junie,
So glad to know you are doing well. I spent a few years in the UK, left about 5 years ago for homeland in Africa. Last week in the middle of the night, I heard your wonderful voice covering the Mandela brithday concert for the BBC (Radio). I have always been a great fan of yours and I congratulate you for this wonderful initiative. If you can, also include african news from times to times, we even more than UK women, need to find creative ways of getting African girls and women interested in politics. Keep up the wonderful work, if you have an opportunity visit us in Africa. All the very best. You still look stunning.
Just what I needed for everyday catching up! Politics is that extra bit of info that all other stylish women’s websites are missing. It looks incredible and reads well. Thank you so much!!!!!!
Great idea,-more blog posts plz u shud hook up with catch21.co.uk which gives young people a voice at westminster-
Fantastic - anything that boosts interest in politics is a good thing! Well done June. Ben Davies, editor of newstatesman.com
Really looking forward to the Shami Chakrabarti blog. Good luck with the site.
Love the site,great ideas,looking forward to the future developments.
I’m definitely looking forward to see how this site evolves. Interesting idea and good work. There are a lot of females out there interested in politics (I hope!) so this should be a great success…best wishes, June!
Great idea for a site, saw the metro article today and thought I’d check it out, I’m glad I did.
Hi,
I’m a teacher in a secondary school SE London and I’m going to have this on every morning for my students to see. A great idea!
Wow! Fabulous darling and much needed xxx
Very impressed! and hope it continues - more fun and knowledge to us all!!! (in that order of course)
chuckles, Cat
Dear June,
I have been looking forward to seeing your website since I saw Loose Women yesterday - I am hoping you will be able to enlighten me on some of the political “jargon” that I do not understand. I am very opinionated but frightened of showing my ignorance in certain topics - Help!
I think this is a really good idea for a website - but if you don’t execute it right i.e., no comments being shown - employ me and I’ll do it for you!!!!!?
Amazing idea for a website. June, your an aspiration for all women
x
I read about this website in an article printed in the Independent. Fantastic project and I congratulate you for your efforts. Thank you for continuing to encourage many young people like myself to take an interest in politics and society.
Read about your website in the metro newspaper. I think its a great idea, politics is interesting.Goodluck.
Hey June
I’m willing to give the site a go instead of BBCNews.
But just so you - my spelling is awful so I typed politics and the city into google and your website did not come up.
You might want to see about getting your website coming up on searches…
xx
It’s about TIME!
My site tries at least to get the ball rolling to what you’re doing! It’s needed in the UK.
Big Time.
Hi June congratulations on a great idea for a website. I will be a regular browser and commentator as the site covers my topics of interest Current affairs, politics, and economics.
Well done.
Peace
Oh dear I have a feeling my boss will not approve of this website, I spend enough time on BBC News as it is!
Well done on a fantastic and somewhat overdue idea.
Just what I’ve been waiting for. Too many people assume young people aren’t interested in Policts. If you ask me we’re the most active demographic. Glad we finally have a voice.
Its about time we had an alternative women’s online magazine.Its looking really good, great balance of serious news and entertainment. Have been thinking of doing something similar so now I am inspired to get on and do it.
Really loving this idea. Making politics more accessible to women and making it more interesting with the twist of having entertainment and other news on the side a great plan.
I’ll definitiely be visitng the site regularly
All the best, Hels
There goes that male dominance again.
Who said women aren’t interest in politics. If there were more women involved the world would be a better place.
Good luck June & your team may the site go from strength to strength.
Great website - hope you can ‘hit the ground running’ and that word spreads about you very quickly. Cheers!
I have been checking up on the link since I read about it in Metro yesterday. I like the outlook and the idea of bringing politics to the attention of those who would normally or probably not take interest is a cool one. Welldone, I will bookmark this page.
Great fresh website that links all the concepts together.
All the best
Heather
June…got home late last night with FULL intention to “beam” politics&the city up on my computer…and BOOM! Bedtime for Bozo. But this a.m. in steamy NYC, WOW! It looks great. The time is right, the site looks AMAZING, and i am incredibly proud of you for what you have pulled off. This is just the beginning!!
Rich
Hi,
I love the idea for the website and it is very polished. In terms of feedback though, firstly, the site runs very slowly. Maybe this si just teething problems though. Secondly the links at the top of the home page are a bit confusing. Are they part of this site? Taking me to an external site? I’ve had a look through them all and I’m still not sure what they all relate to. Can you make the links a bit more explicit? Eg. What does Glossy Wire mean?
Overall though, great idea, good website.
Cheers,
Katy
Hi,
I love the website, it’s a fantastic idea. I will always be using the site to keep up with the latest news. Wishing you and the team every success.
Great site! Would be great to have a forum or discussion board where we can discuss things we’ve read on here…rather than just the ‘comments’ facility that’s currently available.
I’ll be back!
Pamela
Phew! Finally somewhere to read about and discuss politics and be able to do so with authority whilst wearing lipgloss. Love, love, love the idea. Really pleased there’s an alternative to the usual pomposity and relived that there’s not a whiff of bad suits / bad hair / bad make up (no names mentioned, of course!). Great work by everyone involved.
Not even I could have come up with something this crass. I look forward to reading about the latest events in Zimbabwe seen through the prism of Robert Mugabe’s fashion nicht-nichts.
On paper this approach is a good idea but I think it’s execution leaves a lot to be desired. I would have launched a beta version first and sorted out all the bugs before doing a big PR job on it. I fear that you will have raised expectations too high.
Really enjoyed having a read over the site! I’m looking forward to keeping up to date with my new source of current affairs.
Best Wishes
Gem x
Great idea. Need to get more people aware it exists. I’ll be passing it on to my friends. Health section would be good as someone else pointed out.
Looks good so far. Really intresting. Keep up the good work!!
Congratulations June,
I heard about politics & the city on Monday 7th July when you mentioned it on Loose Women on ITV. Good that I was watching on that day, I would have missed out on this fabulous invention.
You must advertise more as not a lot of people will know about this site.
Good luck!
Aida.
Brilliant idea June, will definatly be viewing your site regularly.
Blessed Love.
Andreen
A long time coming.
We’re not just about lipstick and Jimmy Choos.
I’ll be a regular!
Great stuff, so good to see a new politics website up and running. It’s about time that women who are interested in current affairs were viewed as individuals instead of Thatcher clones
Keep up the good work
Heather
Thank you June! Finally an intelligent & interesting website for women… Love the fashion & the politics!! Thank you! I will be an avid reader from here on it.
N x
Hi June,
Liking the site. Very clean and clear with interesting and entertaining content that even i, a bloke, will be returning to.
Maybe later on as the site grows you could include a section for us lads, and maybe also replace the lipstick with a spanner?
All the best.
~michael
This is a great idea, but is hard to read! The black background is a strain on the eyes…
Good luck anyway!
Adrian
Saw a link to this on the bbc website and think it’s a great idea. I would be nice if there were more magazines like this mixing fashion and politics
Fantastic idea! Love the look of the website, and enjoyed reading it too.
Debs
What a joke!
Julie Sarpong hosting a politics site and blog!?? What the goodness has this country come to?!
I mean we are talking about an ex T4 (Channel4) presenter talking about politics? Is it just me or are we seeing a plethora of presenters thinking that just because they are on TV, they can then go on and talk/discuss/debate about issues that they clearly have no background or specialism in?!?!
Possibly a good idea for a site, but not Julie Sarpong doing it….
What an utter and complete joke.
A concerned citizen.
Brilliant idea!! I’m hoping there’s going to be opportunites for blogs from everyone, not just well known/successful contributers?!
An excellent concept. Very nicely put together.
Good to see such a worthwhile website, goodluck…..count me in on reading this new and innovative website…best of luck..
Great idea! While the fashion angle I see as just more-of-the-same, a female slant on politics is very sorely missing from the political world. Go get hear folks!
This is truly the most preposterously patronising idea for a website I have ever heard of.
Women, who may also be interested in fashion and beauty etc etc, are perfectly capable of picking up a newspaper to read about current affairs, and guess what - we can multi-task so maybe we can simultaneously do our make up!
Thousands of young people male and female are not engaged in politics because they are disillusioned and don’t feel represented by politicians, not because news isn’t presented to them in a “fun” way. Anyone who wants to know about politics makes it their business to know, and those who don’t may well be foolish for feeling this way, but offering a rundown of Harriet Harmans most recent fashion blunders isn’t going to encourage them.
Do you think Boudica was worrying about the hottest animal print of the season as she drove the Romans out of Colchester?
As a woman who works for central Government and likes fashion, music and shiny things generally speaking, I find your website incredibly offensive.
You are a good role model to young men and women out there.Your website is fantastic.Best wishes.
sandra
xxx
Hi June,
The site looks great…well done! The animation story idea sounds a little bit like a certain MP’s life we know
Keep it moving!!
NJ
Nathan John
Producer / Presenter of ‘On.Point – The TV Youth Chat Show’
Couldn’t have thought of a more fab woman to front this site………..great mix of politics & style. I’ll spread the word!!
Donna
At last - someone who recognises that just because you’ve got brains you’re not necessarily a bore, and just because you’ve got beauty you’re not necessarily brainless! This is a great idea. Good luck in bringing those various worlds together!
Well done on starting up such an interesting and promising site. I will definitely be visiting here on a regular basis, to see how things develop.
I came here from the bbc website, btw.
I find the layout very clear, and easy on the eye.
If you are out to get more women to the site, there is nothing like a bit of online social networking, and sites like Twitter, Facebook, and so on, are great for letting people know what your site is about.
gr8 idea this,i am interested in politics but dont always understand it, now i’ll have an idea whats going on, thanks June.xox
What a fab website, really good balance of items, have added to my favorites
well done x
Fantastic idea!
I am a 22yrs old local government worker and a member of the Conservative party and this is exactly what I have been looking for!
Lina
This is such a great idea. Love it! Politics; fashion; media; TV. We need to have more of this.
Well designed and an interesting read…even though I’m not the target audience! If you’re looking to hire people for the site I’m experienced at webdesign and writing for the web so just drop me an email. One thing you could do is video interviews with women politicans, women activists etc. Good luck.
Very stylish site we have here… look forward to following it as it builds momentum!
Hi I’m a guy and I find it interesting! Good for you we desperately need more interaction with politics in this country, because let’s face it it’s not coming from the politicians themselves anytime soon! Perhaps this site will actually answer peoples’ questions instead of darting around them, at the same time making people realise that politics is important to everyone and there’s no excuse for apathy.
Make June a dame!
Great idea June. Wishing you all the best. I will be a regular here.
Hi June!
Sisters’ are really doing it for themselves! What a great idea and congradulations, I think it’s fabulous!!I am keen on current political affairs, and its good to see that you have also maintained some feminine aspect to your site with fashion tips as well.Beauty and brains is a terrific mix!Maybe a section on some African news would be an eye opener to other women out there, on issues affecting that continent currently. Being a Zimbabwean myself and keen on issues happening back home, it’s good to know our current issues are being kept alive and supported through more exposure via the media and hopefully great websites such as yours.
Well done to you and your team. All the bestxxx
Sharon T
Finally a site that meets all my needs!! yay!!!
good luck u r now officially my home page xxx
It’s a really cr4p website designed for stupid people
Good idea. But why does the UK version have labour spelt the American way?
What a great idea, shame about the name!. Couldn’t anyone come up with something else?
I do hope this doesn’t end up like so many other websites aimed at women filled with Socialites at parties and what not to wear!
Heres to open mindness.
I’m liking the initial concept and the look, but I’m hoping it’s not going to be too London-centric. Obviously that’s where the heart of government is, but hopefully our other major cities won’t be overlooked.
Launch looked fab - jealous at the goodie-bags though!
I’m afraid I have to give this site three f’s…
for Fierce, Fun and Fabulous! and an extra f for FANTASTIC! Well done!
I think this website is a great idea, well done!
I’ll definetely be back.
Hi June.
Please stop.
Thanks.
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Hi June,
I have always been into current affairs but if anything gets me into main stream politics, this certainly will. I’m loving the marriage of politics and goss.
But what’s happening to lipgloss Productions? Have you pulled the plug on it or is it still in motion?
Love, peace and hair grease,
Pebz xx
Hello June
Lo your secret is out ! I did wonder what you ‘ ve been up to . This is wishing you and your team every success of PATC .
hi june
i found out about this website after watching the daily poltics show, the concept of trying to get more women involved and interested in poltics is great idea.
what exactly are the aims of this site, do you intend to publish the latest sound bites coming from the political partys, and invite honest and open debate, (much lacking from these days).
i must admit i was loath to leave a comment, from your interview on the DP, i felt this site was elitiste and not aimed at me, working class, poorley educated, but with a passion and knowledge of politics.
best of luck with your new site, but please make it accesable to all.
sue
Excellent site June, and all @ PATC - well done, and my best wishes for the future, I will be returning..
Congratulations! look forward to seeing what else you’ve got up your sleeve. Keep it up. the comments are quite interesting, personally I think anything that gets people who wouldn’t normally be interested, engaged in politics, is a good thing. As it means politicians have to be more responsive and take in to account the view of young people, women, working class people, non working people, minorities etc. If parliment is representing the country then it shouldn’t look and sound like a private members club
Dear June
Congratulations and good luck with this brilliant new concept dealing with things that matter to us all. You have a fab take on life and I love this new website x Go Girl ! love Wendy x
JUNE- This is just a fabulous, informative website, I love to and shall be visiting on a regular basis!
June … This is very good ,i look forward to seeing what else you’ve got and shall be visiting on a regular.
Great idea for a website. This will be the first blog I will subscribe to, and I’m really looking forward to reading more. Hope the site really takes off.
I’m so pleased this site has been set up…I’m always complaining that I don’t know enough about politics and that I find it hard to follow, but this site makes it really easy and interesting! Well done!
Honey! I say it all the time “Keep it Sexy” and honey even your website is sexy!! Well done my love. I am very proud and happy for you. I wish you and your team the very best of success. You really know how to blend politics, entertainment and fashion news so well. Keep doing what you doing. I’ll be back!!
Tx
Just lurrve this site. Are you planning any events at party conferences. It would be great if you came up to Manchester x
Wow this is such a fabulous yet factual website! The format is user friendly and stylish to the maximum!
Keep up the great work : ) From sunny Cumbria
Oh, how depressing,
The fact that so many women have posted here to espress their delight at a politics-based website that speaks to them….. just completely depressing.
June, as a woman who apparently has a desire to “speak” to us, didn’t it occur to you that we might be offended by the concept that we are incapable of picking up a decent paper, and need to have our politics translated so as to be digestible to those of us who (and I swear I saw this here) wear lipgloss?
And that’s not to mention the fact that this vast movement in womens’ imancipation is today heralding an interview with Jaqueline Gold. Words, truly, escape me.
This has been an insurmountably depressing 10 minutes. You have my email address, please do feel free to get in touch and tell me about your plans to speak with women in a less patronising manner, because I am completely despairing.
Truely amazing.. Layout and presentation is great. I am sure there is alot more to come, but all in time. Keep up the good work and stay focused. Yes you can!!!
Amanda