Westmonster: our first launch

Today's a big day: Gordon Brown's delivering his first speech at a Labour party conference as Prime Minister, and MessyMedia is launching its first title: Westmonster. It is, as you may have guessed, about politics.

The editor, Sadie Smith, is in Bournemouth this week blogging from the conference, and as I speak she's doing a live report of Gordon Brown's speech. You can find out more about the title and what it's all about here, or take a look at the press release, but here's a taster:

We believe in personalities before policies and arguments before debate. We want to say who's doing what to whom and why. We want to prick some bubbles and maybe bother some pricks. And somewhere along the line laws will get made, ministers will fall and Dennis Skinner will continue to rumble.

Westmonster is, we hope, going to be an essential destination for anyone interested in British politics. And we also intend it to be the first of several such titles, delivering great content from new writers in a professional package.

We're also announcing our partnership with Ad2One, who are handling all our advertising sales. It's been great working with them so far, and we hope the relationship is a long and fruitful one.

Please let us know what you think by contacting us. And if you think you'd also like to write for us, drop us a line at talent [at] messymedia.net.