The paper you read says a lot about you. In a way, it means people can read you. In the same way, I’m sure that coming home at about 1 o’clock in the morning and going onto the Guardian website to look up an article related to your day at work also says a lot about you. Even knowing that this makes us massive geeks, we still did it anyway.
The Biteback office is a hub of political discussion, frequently debating the key issues swirling and turning in the air around us, but very little of it gets written about (except on this blog, of course). However, at the weekend, we did happen upon (read: actively went searching for) Big Cheese himself entering into a debate on one of most talked-about events in the news today, the Wikileaks disclosures and the arrest of founding member Julian Assange.
If you would like to read the article go here or e-mail us and we’ll photocopy and send off the original article from Saturday’s Guardian, which we happened upon in a café (read: bought with our own money) on the day in question. Dammit, we really are geeks. I think the point though, trying to make this professional and not just about seeing someone we know in the paper (which is always cool), is that, just as Big Cheese himself is an authority to be listened to on all manners political, so is his company.
With the help of Big Cheese, of course, Biteback are constantly growing and releasing some of the biggest political titles of the year, including David Laws’s account of the early days of the coalition, 22 Days In May, Rob Wilson’s comprehensive study of the meetings that led to the forming of our current government, 5 Days to Power, and Brown At 10, Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge’s look at the troubled premiership of one of Britain’s most enigmatic political leaders.
We also do sports books (see here and here).
Also, with the recent news that Iain will be giving up on his blogging, we would like to wish him the very best of luck! However, 'with every door' and all that jazz, it does mean we get to spend more time with the BC than before and hopefully some of his great bloggishness will rub off on us and marginalise the geekiness that we display on a daily basis.