A bit last minute, I know, but I’ve just agreed to fill in for a speaker who couldn’t get to tonight’s South London Geek Night. My talk is called “Battersea Election Candidates at the General Election”. It’s a “Microslot” talk which means I have only five minutes. I’ll be summarising the things that I’ve found by running… Continue reading Speaking Tonight
Category: politics
Modern Campaigning
I got in touch with all of the Battersea candidates who aren’t publishing web feeds to ask them if there was anything I had missed. I only got a reply from one of them. But that’s ok. They’re probably busy. Campaigning is a time-consuming business. The response I got was marked as “not for publication”… Continue reading Modern Campaigning
General Election in Battersea
There’s a General Election coming up. And I’m really not sure who I’m going to vote for. But that’s ok because this is going to be the UK’s first Election Campaign 2.0 where candidates and voters are going to be in constant two-way communication through the medium of the interweb. All I need to do… Continue reading General Election in Battersea
The People’s Pamphlet
Update: Ok, yes, we admit it. It was an April Fool’s joke. Well most of it was. I’m not really going to be taking a month off to live in a camper van with Tim and Sim-O (though I’m sure it would have been fun!) But the wiki really exists. And we really want your… Continue reading The People’s Pamphlet
Election Imminent
There’s just over a month until the most likely looking date for this year’s General Election. I’m already getting canvassers knocking on my door and phoning me up even though the starting pistol hasn’t been fired yet. It’s going to be an interesting election. Not least because so many people seem to be floating voters… Continue reading Election Imminent
David Wright and Twitter
you can put lipstick on a scum-sucking pig but it is still a scum-sucking pig That’s apparently what Labour MP David Wright said about the Tory party on Twitter on Monday. I say “apparently” because he claims he didn’t say it. He says that his tweets have been tinkered with. He says that the words… Continue reading David Wright and Twitter
Tweedledum Meet Tweedledee
This is from Iain Dale’s blog: The thing is, people actually elected this woman to represent them, yet she seems incapable of rational argument or debate. If you disagree with her she cries foul and accuses you of being nasty. And yet she doesn’t understand it’s her own brand of nastiness which causes people to… Continue reading Tweedledum Meet Tweedledee
Good Drugs vs Bad Drugs
There’s been a lot of talk about drugs over the last few days. Most of the commentary has been of the usual desultory level. It’s almost as though people don’t want to have a serious and focussed debate on the dangers of drugs. There are two facts in particular that almost never get mentioned. And… Continue reading Good Drugs vs Bad Drugs
The BNP on Question Time
Here’s what I think. Nick Griffin is an odious little toad of a man. Everything that the British National Party stands for is abhorrent to all sane people. However, there are enough irrational people on the electoral register that the BNP are an elected party. Question Time is supposed to be politically neutral. An unfortunate… Continue reading The BNP on Question Time
Nadnomics
Nadine Dorries (the MP for mid-Narnia) has been explaining why she is not in favour of all-women short-lists. I have to confess that positive discrimination makes me slightly uncomfortable, so it would have been easy for her to write something that I would have had to grudgingly admit to agreeing with. Luckily for me, she… Continue reading Nadnomics