communications ltd is a specialist political publishing house based in london . 1 it was formed in its current state in 2004 as the result of the merger of vacher dod publishing and parliamentary communications ltd. publications edit dods is the home of political publications including the house magazine a weekly publications for peers and mps in westminster the annual dods parliamentary companion on the uk s political scene and the parliament magazine a fortnightly offering of eu news views and analysis written by meps for meps . 2 the company acquired politicshome website from lord ashcroft in 2011 . 3 in 2012 dods acquired biteback media ltd publisher of total politics for 795 000 cash and holyrood communications publisher of holyrood for 416 806 cash plus a further 250 000 if profit targets are met . 4 references edit dods.co.uk publications dods website about us ashcroft cashes in on politicshome . media week . 1 july 2011 . retrieved 8 october 2015 . dods buys biteback media holyrood comms for total 1.46 m . business desk . 17 december 2012 . retrieved 8 october 2015 . external links edit official website v t e dods divisions dod s parliamentary communications publications dod s parliamentary companion holyrood the house magazine the parliament magazine total politics trombinoscope retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dod % 27s parliamentary communications & oldid 741450199 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 september 2016 at 15 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view