Escaping the Village (again)
A few months ago I decided that I’d had enough of the constant flood of updates and pings and poorly-sourced claims of various political colours that is the modern world of social media, so I took a...
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More on the Mail
A while ago I asked So, who can make me a poster in that 1950s US anti-communism style declaring that “When you follow a link to the Mail, you’re financing BIGOTRY”? Anyone? Well, it turns out that...
View ArticleOne week in and oh wait WHAT?
It’s now sort of a weekish since my social media blackout kicked in, although I still take a peek once a day to check for anything directly aimed at me. I justify this as being like checking my email...
View ArticleWhy the spoof account had to die
I’ve long been a fan of the English language. I’m especially a fan of the degree of subtlety and nuance it allows its creative users, and how the careful omission or variation of a couple of words can...
View ArticleDirect democracy and the disenfrancised
It’s coming up on the fourth anniversary of our move to Switzerland, which means I’ve had plenty of time to see how the place functions. I’ve watched the democratic process here unfold a number of...
View ArticleDisenfranchised!
Bit of a rush of blog posts recently. I guess I’m getting frustrated with having to squeeze everything into 140-character tweets. So, election last week, eh? It just happened I was in the UK on polling...
View ArticleWhen a confidence vote is not a confidence vote
There has been much brouhaha from people who should really pay closer attention to the details about the proposals as part of the UK’s new coalition agreement for a fixed-term parliament to require a...
View ArticleI Warn You, Again
A couple of years ago I posted Neil Kinnock’s legendary words, delivered at a speech in Bridgend the night before the 1983 general election which returned Margaret Thatcher in a landslide driven on the...
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Graphs vs. graphs
Just a quick post (yeah, I should post here more) as a few of us on Twitter found this article kind of interesting in that it purports to show a long-term declining trend in the combined vote share of...
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I Warn You
Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party through the years of the Thatcher government, was an extremely good orator, even if history has rather forgotten that in favour of remembering him as the...
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