Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... credits — before he was whisked away.The tone of the debate was feisty, bordering on vicious, as Justine Roberts, the 42-year-old co-founder of Mumsnet, admits.“Cameron is in lead position in the polls; so being women, the Mumsnet lot think, let’s support the underdog. Let’s give someone who looks like he’s going to win a hard time,” she says.We meet at her north London home, currently...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Monday I drop the kids off at school and then head to Kentish Town for a typical day at the office where I'm MD of Mumsnet, the online site for parents.
Mandate Communications blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
A few days ago Justine Roberts, co-founder of the exceptionally popular online parent community Mumsnet, came into Mandate to tell us a bit about the site and its users. At the time she let us into a secret that Gordon Brown would be visiting their office for a live web chat . We promised not to let it slip – but we can now, as earlier this afternoon the PM dutifully answered questions...
Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... leader, who was writing his answers at Conservative Central Office with a Mumsnet team including Justine Roberts, the co-founder, had had a laptop breakdown. Replies were being posted, it seemed, and then disappearing. “AAgh I am now on Justines laptop as mine went bust,” he wrote. “IT boffin next to me is trying to retrieve my last few answers . . . ” In a moment, a wave of...
Kempton - ideas Revolutionary (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... as whether he prefers oatcakes on their own or with cheese. “That is Mumsnet to a T,” its founder, Justine Roberts, said yesterday. “It can be very serious, and it can be very silly. From my perspective, it did not matter at all whether Gordon Brown answered the question about biscuits. I think the reason it got asked 12 times was that people were slightly frustrated that the answers...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... many newspapers and blogs since, was never actually put to the PM, according to MumsNet founder Justine Roberts. In a new comment on Mumsnet, Roberts clarifies: "The truth is that Gordon Brown didn't follow the live chat on the screen directly - he answered the questions grouped and fed to him by Mumsnet HQ and his advisers. He didn't avoid the biscuit question because...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... to decide what sort of biscuits he wants to eat?" Except, er, no one asked him. As Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts has now clarified in a posting on the website, the biscuit question proposed by various messageboard users was never put to Gordon Brown in the hour that he devoted to the interview. "The truth is that Gordon Brown didn't follow the live chat on the screen directly -...
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Remember the media frenzy about Gordon Brown "dithering" when asked what biscuit he likes best on Mumsnet ? According to The First Post, it was all made up: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/55261,news-comment,news-politics,gordon-brown-biscuitgate-at-last-a-crumb-of-truth They quote Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts as saying: "The truth is that Gordon Brown didn't follow the...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... to decide what sort of biscuits he wants to eat'” Except, er, no one asked him. As Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts has now clarified in a posting on the website, the biscuit question proposed by various messageboard users was never put to Gordon Brown in the hour that he devoted to the interview. “The truth is that Gordon Brown didn’t follow the live chat on the screen directly –...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... website, founded by mothers to share parenting tips, today hosts a live webchat with Gordon Brown. Justine Roberts, its managing director, said: “We know how hard raising children can be, even in comfortable circumstances. So we can’t support cuts that will make life harder still for families seeking asylum.” Lisa Nandy, policy adviser at the Children’s Society, said: “This pushes...
