Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Who runs this site?

Gavin Whenman is a journalist, writer, former law student, fan of alliteration and Liberal Democrat, although not necessarily in that order. He works for Total Politics, a monthly political magazine that puts the "fun" in "fundamental shift in the balance of power".

He recently completed an LLM in Public International Law at King’s College London. Until last year, he worked for 18 Doughty Street, a sadly now defunct political internet TV channel.

He has had the pleasure of being ranted about on BBC Radio Five Live, editing (and leaving) a newspaper and meeting Boris Johnson. Some consider him vociferous, others like to think of him as their favourite Lib Dem.

He can be contacted at gavin AT gavinwhenman DOT com (sophisticated spam-blocking technique in operation).

Gavin is now worn out from referring to himself in the third person.

What is FFS It’s Monday / Politalks?

FFS It’s Monday was a regular column (published, strangely enough, on Mondays) that took a misanthropic, sideways glance at the week in politics (or whatever else caught my eye). It was not intended to be taken necessarily as my view on anything. Similarly, Politalks was a series of Youtube videos in collaboration with Lee Griffin that rounds-up the previous week’s news with a satirical twist and doesn’t necessarily follow exactly our views, but is what we would consider funny.

Comments Policy

Comments, positive or negative, anonymous or otherwise, are welcome, but please don’t pretend to be something you’re not (i.e. a Lib Dem supporter when you’re a Labour/Tory member), as I reserve the right to amend your name accordingly. First-time commenters will be moderated (this is just to stop spam, which I get annoyingly frequently), but future comments will go up straight away if you’re approved. Also, anything I consider libellous won’t be approved - sorry, but I’m liable for all content on this site, and fun as it is being sued, I just don’t have the money to defend inane rantings I don’t agree with.

What powers this site?

GavinWhenman.com is hosted by Dreamhost and the content management software is Wordpress. The theme is adapted from Cutline by Chris Pearson. I use Windows Live Writer to write most posts. Plugins are Podpress, MyBlogLog widget, Lib Dem buttons, Share This, Creative Commons license widget, Adsense Manager and finally WP-PostRatings. More details can be found here.