Monthly Archives: April 2010

Rob’s #LeadersDebate Reax, Part III

Posted on 29 April 2010 by Robert

Let’s start at the end: I think Cameron won this one. He looked much more confident than in previous debates, and seemed on the front foot in the back-and-forth. His soundbite about the “confusion” between goverment and economy was a … Continue reading →

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Perspectives on #Bigotgate

Posted on 29 April 2010 by Robert

“More anger. This time at being disempowered and disenfranchised; at being a cheap target for political point scoring because Gillian Duffy and the 60 million people like her have a vote, and I and the couple of hundred thousand people like me don’t, and therefore she will always get a grovelling apology from the Prime Minister, and we won’t.” Continue reading →

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The Anatomy of #Bigotgate

Posted on 29 April 2010 by Robert

Hard to believe, but without the new technology, I think yesterday would have been worse for Mr Brown. Continue reading →

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Fear of Offending

Posted on 28 April 2010 by Robert

Last week we learned that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have suffered death-threats on an Islamist site, after they attempted to depict the Prophet Mohammed in South Park.  Contributors to site called Revolutionmuslim.com warned they might be … Continue reading →

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The Long and Short of It

Posted on 27 April 2010 by Robert

From The Guardian last week: “We think this will be the renaissance of the short story,” said novelist Sophia Bartleet, who came up with the idea for Ether Books’s app while desperate for something to read when travelling back and … Continue reading →

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Do Daily Mail Journalists Cry at Night?

Posted on 23 April 2010 by Robert

I posted this on Liberal Conspiracy yesterday. Happy to say it got a lot of RTs. The pathetic and desperate hatchet job on Nick Clegg, by our friends at the Daily Mail, was pretty much instantly rebutted last night, in … Continue reading →

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Rob’s #LeadersDebate Reax, Part II

Posted on 22 April 2010 by Robert

Some quick points. I don’t think this was a game changer. By which, I mean, I think the pro-Clegg narrative of the last few days should continue. Clegg avoided a smackdown on the EU because Brown was largey in agreement, … Continue reading →

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Fallout

Posted on 22 April 2010 by Robert

My photoset on Flickr, showing the economic fallout of the volcanic erruption… Continue reading →

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On Nuclear War

Posted on 21 April 2010 by Robert

Vexing: RT @iaincorby: If a foreign power explodes a dirty nuclear bomb in the UK what are LibDems going to do? A strongly worded letter to the UN? This attitude presupposes that the appropriate response to having an instant genocide … Continue reading →

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Blog Burning

Posted on 16 April 2010 by Robert

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post – ‘Write A Blog, Kill Your Career‘, about the possibility of bloggers going into politics and the trouble that their archives might cause them.  I linked to a marvellous cartoon by … Continue reading →

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