Social Media
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 johnson
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 ā he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote ā Mr.
donald trump
The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation
donald trump
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, Iām not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesnāt have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at
interviews
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomsonās 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 ā sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. āItās
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
[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 ā like being
economy
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.
economy
Given the state of the economy, the state of my to-do list and the amount of time available to me right now, I couldnāt resist taking the speech [http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_02_10.htm] George Osborne, our new Chancellor, gave this morning [http://news.bbc.co.
elections
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2010/05/4583934532_fa10d1630a_b-1638.html] Like so many others, I stopped off to vote on the way in to work this morning. I had threeĀ separateĀ ballot papers: for the national government, for the local council and for the local mayor.I was
Blogging
Ah, the social media world is full of chit-chat after the felling of a LabourĀ parliamentaryĀ candidate [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7571078/General-Election-2010-Labour-candidate-sacked-over-Twitter-rants.html] by his ownĀ brazenĀ stupidity and contempt for the electorate Twitter. But, here in sunny Sutton, weāve been having a bit of
admin
And theyāre off. The General Election is confirmed [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8603591.stm]. I will not be writing about, nor discussing, my politics (such as they are) on this blog in the run-up to the election. I may comment on media coverage of