<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/09/derek-draper-is.html" target="_blank">Andy McSmith: Derek Draper is an alien</a>

Friday 26 September 2008 00:00 BST

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I read on the front of today's issue of PR Week that Derek Draper, recently recalled to work for the Labour Party, is to take charge of "an online rapid rebuttal unit, designed to kill off damaging stories circulating in the blogosphere."

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