{"id":94776,"date":"2020-10-07T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicsuk.wpengine.com\/?page_id=94776"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:04:50","slug":"about-politics-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/about-politics-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About Politics.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politics.co.uk has been online for more than 15 years, and in that time we have always sought to be different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We started out as a pure political news site, evolving through the emergence of social media into more opinion-based content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our latest incarnation we continue this tradition of seeking to provide something different for our readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want Politics.co.uk to become the leading free-to-access digital magazine for UK politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through our content, we want to provide a home for all who are interested in politics or who work in politics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have always been politically impartial and with no editorial agenda &#8211; although with purely opinion-based content this may not have always been immediately apparent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political impartiality and independence will continue to be a key facet of our approach moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will bring you news\u00a0 &#8211; but not the same old news that everyone else is chasing. We will bring you stories and snapshots from UK politics not covered elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will provide insight &#8211; taking an in-depth look at different political issues and presenting them in a range of multimedia and interactive formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will provide engagement &#8211; looking at some of the lighter, more niche topics and discussions taking place in the political sphere, and finding new and novel ways to present them to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What you can expect from us going forward is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more content than ever before<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in a greater range of formats &#8211; articles, videos, motion graphics and more &#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some familiar faces\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and plenty of new ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We won\u2019t be hiding our content behind registration or paywalls. We are an advert funded publication, so please bear this in mind if you enjoy our content but make use of\u00a0 ad-blockers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you wish to find out about the commercial opportunities available through our website, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/advertise-on-politics-co-uk\/\">click here<\/a> to find out more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hope you enjoy our website. If you have any feedback, please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:feedback@politics.co.uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feedback@politics.co.uk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Politics.co.uk Team\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Josh_Self_?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Josh Self<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parliamentary footage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following statement applies to any footage of Parliament on Politics.co.uk:<\/p>\n<p>Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/site-information\/copyright-parliament\/open-parliament-licence\/\">Open Parliament Licence v3.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics.co.uk has been online for more than 15 years, and in that time we have always sought to be different. 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