by nabidana | Nov 10, 2010 | politics
As usual at this time of year, the strangled scream of one more fool arguing in favour of not wearing a poppy for remembrance day can be heard, faintly filling the end of a slow news day, usually on Channel 4. That some people decide not to wear a poppy is fine....
by nabidana | Oct 24, 2010 | politics
One of the most important things students learn when studying the media is that, often, the decision of an editor or proprietor to, or not to, publish or broadcast a particular story places immense power in the hands of that person. Often the mainstream media enjoys...
by nabidana | May 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you ever wanted to crystalise the state of the election race, you couldn’t do much better than these two entirely adjacent posts on the BBC’s constantly updating election news ticker. This cut and pasted exactly as it is on the BBC website. 0854: David...
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by nabidana | Mar 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
Opinion polls are the methodone fix for unreconstructed politics addicts between elections. Our resident pusher is Mike Smithson, the genial and analytically astute host of http://politicalbetting.com, a site which pulls together the rumour-mill, the important...
by nabidana | Jan 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Later this month, the Government will announce, at great taxpayer expense, that the recession is easing, that the world will be a better place with Gordon Brown continuing to pour his blessings on the British people. The danger is, of course, that the British people,...
