Politicians, twittering
Tweet Three-way pre-election television debate last night between the Chancellor of the Exchequer (i.e. finance minister) and his two rivals from the other main parties. An unusual event in Britain...
View ArticleTony Blair and Northern Ireland: another version
Tweet In his masterfully choreographed world book tour selling his autobiography, Tony Blair has been reaping another round of credit for settling more than three decades of violent “troubles” in...
View ArticleTony Blair’s millennium bug (and media studies)
Tweet The wittiest anecdote from Tony Blair’s memoirs about the media that I’ve yet come across is reproduced in a review of the book by Peter Stothard, editor of The Times for several years of...
View ArticleAV: a lesson in political communication
Tweet As I write, the post-mortems on Britain’s bundle of votes this week (referendum on an alternative vote system for parliament, local councils and the Scottish Parliament) are starting. I have...
View ArticlePhone-hacking, politics and Pharisees
Tweet I’ll return to the debate about press regulation after phone-hacking later this week. In the meantime three nuggets worth passing on. In a media feeding frenzy such as the phone-hacking affair,...
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Greece: the signal that the era of manager-politicians has ended
Tweet That headline does not refer to the fact that there is now going to be a tense negotiation between Greece and the powers of the eurozone and, most probably, currency turbulence in Europe. The...
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