It’s not often that something makes me angry enough to resort to language befitting of Devil’s Kitchen, but Googling for news of the recent European Court of Human Rights case about crucifixes in Italian schools brought me to this article in the Daily Mail with the headline shown above (they […]
In the presentations I make about the impact of the internet on politics and society, Youtube often gets a mention. Although not all explicitly political, these are 3 of my favourites. Think of what you could do with some inspiration like this… Dave Carroll, the singer in the first one, […]
It’s normally the first thing on my agenda when visiting a new city: take a trip to the best modern art gallery in town and spend a few hours wandering around. But I’m getting increasingly jaded, and here’s why. This describes the modern art gallery I’ve most recently visited: It […]
I’ve been making presentations to all kinds of events over the last few months, and I’ve been reflecting on my performance and the performance of others. All of this was brought into especially sharp focus by the Quadriga Online Communications conference in Amsterdam on Friday where I gave a 30 […]
A small word of apology for the complete lack of activity here over the last couple of weeks… Life is beyond manic at the moment – too much travel for work, loads of teaching and business assignments all over the place. I’ll be in Den Haag Thursday, then at the […]
No sooner have the Irish ratified the Treaty of Lisbon than a campaign starts to try to get an Irish citizen nominated to be President of the European Council – Mary Robinson, former Irish President. If you back her candidacy you can join the Facebook group here – there are […]
I’m really struggling at the moment. I have a problem that every freelancer wants to have: too much work. I’m training people in EU politics every week, most of it in London. I’m running web and social media workshops for a variety of clients. And I’m trying to get websites […]
On 22nd June 2009 David Cameron announced that the UK Conservatives would form a new political group in the European Parliament, working together with reactionary and unpleasant parties such as Lijst de Decker from Belgium, Law & Justice from Poland and the Civic Democrats from the Czech Republic. The new […]
I don’t support Iain Dale’s political ideology but he and I agree on one thing: we’re both advocates of use of the internet for politics, and hence the use of social networks and blogs within a political environment. For any other members of political parties concerned by the same issues, […]
One of the arguments that my German friends like to make against the Atheist Bus Campaign (and especially it’s German equivalent) is that ‘because there is no religious advertising on public transport in Germany atheists do not need to advertise’. This is the sort of reasoning why companies such as […]
Hoping for the continuation of the grand coalition was the best the SPD could hope for before yesterday’s Bundestagswahl. In the end the result was even worse than that: 23.1% and a historic low vote for the social democrats. Guido Westerwelle’s beaming grim was everywhere, the FDP the big winners […]
Apparently some grumpy old man with old fashioned ‘ethics’ has been invited by Gordon Brown to the UK next year. Time for another bus campaign? (Image: Bus Slogan Generator)
