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Tag Archives: Media
Heffer on the EU: Nostradamus he ain't
It’s always enjoyable to come across a hysterical prophecy that has been disproved by the passage of time. How much more enjoyable it is when the author is as self-righteous and opinionated as Simon Heffer. The prophecy in question comes … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Brussels, Daily Mail, Ed Balls, European Union, Foreign Affairs, Media, simon heffer, Uncategorized, United States
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The Talk Issues Thinktank Roundup
Welcome to this week’s Talk Issues ‘Thinktank Roundup’ – your one-stop review of all the best publications, research, commentary and events from leading UK think tanks. Not surprisingly in the week of the Queen’s speech various thinktanks responds to their … Continue reading
Posted in NIBs
Tagged benefits, Big Society, communities, Constitutional Reform, deficit, economy, families, Family Policy, Health, immigration, Interesting Links, Media, public spending, Reducing the Deficit, Scotland, Tax & economy, taxes, Training and Employment, Uncategorized
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It's a very different election in Scotland
David Cameron didn’t win last night’s final TV debate for Scottish viewers. In fact if Nick Clegg had announced a new compulsory programme of bestiality in primary schools and Gordon Brown had broken down in tears and lay in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Around the country, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Liberal Democrat, London, Media, Nick Clegg, Scotland, Thatcherism, Uncategorized
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We need an informed discussion on our voting system
Whatever the outcome on 6th May it looks like electoral reform will be a major issue in the next few years. In fact there’s only one outcome – a working Conservative majority – under which it’s not immediately on the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Constitutional Reform, election, electoral reform, Liberal Democrats, Localism, Media, Nick Clegg, PR, Uncategorized, Voter info, Voting
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Kill Klegg: the roundup
Image by lewishamdreamer via Flickr The weekend polls are in, and it looks like Thursday’s ferocious attack on Nick Clegg hasn’t shifted the Liberal Democrats‘ high polling significantly. The sudden shift from attacking the Government to attacking a hitherto-ignored party … Continue reading
REVEALED: Media agree, it's not about issues, it's #nickcleggsfault
Showing the maturity that they are famous for, the press has launched a full-scale assault on Nick Clegg. It’s largely not about the issues but a range or other things including doing a bit of investigative journalism discovering Google can … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Mail, immigration, Liberal Democrats, Media, media, Nick Clegg, politics, Uncategorized
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Do Tory Central office write all this paper?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife As Nosemonkey has spotted, the Daily Mail‘s “Debate 2010″ site is currently entirely devoted to attacking the LibDems. But what’s this – has the peasants’ revolt spread even to the hallowed right-wing halls of … Continue reading
Meow and the Daily Show horizon
Today, I laughed out loud at this paragraph in Charlie Brooker’s attack on the newspaper coverage of meow: Continue reading
Michael Foot: Telegraph respectful, web commenters still vile.
Every day I wonder why newspapers bother to put comment boxes under articles. Here’s an example of why they should be turned off.
The press have been suitably respectful about the late Michael Foot, who was unchallengeably a great intellectual and parliamentarian, even if he wasn’t cut out to lead a fractious party into the age of Thatcherism.
And yet on the Telegraph website, there is a comment box, and it has been colonised by vicious, bile-filled nonentities, spewing petty sarcasm and stupid jokes.
Two examples.
When is £14,000 more than £50m? When one's in a press release and one isn't
High-impact campaigning organisation the Taxpayers’ Alliance are in a right old tizz about EU flags. Yes, those bits of cloth with the blue and gold are an outrageous affront to the British taxpayer, costing £14,003 over five years – an outrageous £2,800.60 per year.
In case you are wondering, £2,800.60 per year is 0.00002% of the UK’s annual budget deficit.
But of course it’s the thought that counts, and in this case the thought is the usual mystical mishmash of Churchill complex, free market dogma and nationalism that could be called “Euroscepticism”, if sceptic weren’t a word that implied rationality and logic.
If the Taxpayers’ Alliance were really serious about European-level financial waste, they might look into the question of how much it costs the British Government to appease the Daily Mail by staying out of the Schengen agreement and maintaining our internal border with other EU countries. Continue reading →