There are two common, and incorrect, justifications for not acting in politics. The first is that now is not the right time, because at the moment everything else is more important. That is the justification most often used by opponents of an In-Out EU referendum in the UK, and is […]
“To explain the transformation of people’s interaction with a new technology, Gartner coined the term “hype cycle”. After its initial invention, the new tool sees a peak of hype, followed by a trough of disillusionment, and finally a plateau of productivity.” Read the full piece at techPresident
UPDATE 14.30 – the original video, as I suspected, has been pulled from Youtube (it was here). As I stated in my blog post at 10.08 this morning, I downloaded the video before it was removed, and hence can show it for you here. Watch this. But probably not in […]
NOTE: Speech has now been postponed. Will not be 18th January. New date tbc. David Cameron’s long awaited speech will take place Friday 18th January at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Here are some ideas to allow you to follow the speech. 1) Watch it live The speech starts at […]
NOTE: Speech has now been postponed. Will not be 18th January. New date tbc. All entries below remain valid for take 2 of the speech. So Twitter (#TheSpeech) and the newspapers are full of analysis and gossip about David Cameron’s big EU speech, now to be given on Friday 18th […]
I cannot remember a week with as much EU news in the UK as we have witnessed over the last 5 days. This is likely to continue in the lead up to David Cameron’s long awaited EU speech. So I’ve made a Storify of the main milestones of the preparation, […]
What is Twitter for? Is it a network of – for want of another term – ‘normal’ people who discuss amongst themselves? Or is it a way for all of us to slavishly follow the rich and famous? I ask this because, for the first time for a while, I […]
Jeżeli trafiłeś na ten blog po przeczytaniu wcześniej artykułu w Gazecie Wyborczej, zwróć proszę uwagę na dalsze wyjaśnienia i pytania w komentarzach. Natknąłem się na te informacje przez przypadek i nie wiem jak odnoszą się one do innych państw członkowskich UE. Gazeta zakłada, że z uwagi że jestem Brytyjskim blogerem […]
Yes, most of UKIP are opposed to gay marriage. The party is largely composed of right wingers, people with conservative values. We knew all of this. If, like me, you support gay marriage, then UKIP’s position is wrong. This evening, with the chairman of Young Independence (UKIP’s youth branch) Olly […]
Following my post about European Commissioners on Twitter, and suggestions to get Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt onto the network, I thought I would next do a brief study of how members of the Danish Parliament (Folketing, with MF standing for a member of the Folketing) are doing on Twitter. […]
Yesterday, via Twitter, my attention was drawn to this story on Tory MP Steve Barclay’s website entitled “New charges for foreign lorries will boost local business”. Immediately I’m thinking sounds like a distortion to the EU’s single market. So I set out to try to find out what was really going […]
TechCrunch this week highlighted that 75% of the world’s heads of state are now on Twitter. While there’s some grounds to quibble about the definition of a head of state, and the number of countries featured, the rise of Twitter among senior politicians cannot be questioned. Meanwhile in the USA […]
