politicians
What will the next generation of social media-savvy politicians look like? Paid Members Public
An attempt to mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for dancing in a video when she was a student opens up the question of how social media will impact the next generation of politicians.
Boris created EU "fake news" 20 years ago Paid Members Public
Fascinating quote in a New York Times piece on the Brexit-backing British newspapers [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/europe/london-tabloids-brexit.html] (and principally, The Sun): > With little regard for the truth — he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote — Mr. Johnson
The end of presidential access journalism in the US Paid Members Public
The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation
On criticism and appropriate times Paid Members Public
Now is not the time to criticise the Galaxy Note 7 [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/now-is-not-the-time-to-criticize-the-galaxy-note-7] : > Now, I’m not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesn’t have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at all
The human behind the politician mask Paid Members Public
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomson’s interview with Alan Johnson for The Times [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-have-got-to-recapture-the-labour-party-otherwise-its-dead-and-finished-3r30ghb7g?shareToken=9c54c79e70b7b50cc50cdd6643c1e7e0] : > When people ask him how many children he has, he always says four — sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. “It’s quite nice
Can we have growth in a resource constrained world? Three MPs debate Paid Members Public
Panel * Greg Barker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change * Caroline Lucas [http://www.carolinelucas.com/], Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion * Norman Baker MP [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Barker], Under-Secretary of State for Transport GB: Efficiency is a
Tom Steinberg: how to open the data people actually want Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/tom.jpg] Tom Steinberg [http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/], founder and director of mySociety [http://www.mysociety.org/] mySociety is a charitable enterprise that exists to make people more powerful by giving them access to democratic process – like being
RBI Sites Covering the Emergency Budget Paid Members Public
Adding them to the post as I find them: * Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/06/21/241676/live-coverage-the-june-2010-emergency-budget.htm] * Estates Gazette [http://www.egi.co.uk/articles/2010/06/22/719486/Budget-2010-Live-Coverage.htm] (with behind the scenes coverage [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/06/behind-the-scenes-of-egs-emergency-budget-coverage.
