Category: Politics

  • The election QR code that lacks imagination

    Much of the UK went to the polls today in a mix of national and local elections. Elections for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly are being held, as are polls in 279 English councils.…

  • Why vote yes to AV?

    I didn’t listen to Today on BBC Radio 4 last Wednesday and hear Mark Borkowski’s reported comment that the Alternative Vote (AV), on which we have a referendum on May 5, has created "a great yawn across the nation." Yet…

  • Canadian MPs big on Twitter

    Politicians in Canada are embracers of social media, it seems, and now they’re being actively encouraged to use social channels from within parliament. According to a report by Journalism.co.uk, the Canadian House of Commons has issued MPs with Blackberrys and…

  • Which Arab state will be the next falling domino?

    After nearly three weeks of protest in Cairo and other cities across Egypt, the end came quite quickly on Friday night so that, today, the country no longer has Hosni Mubarak running things and instead has the military in charge,…

  • A moment in history from Egypt

    The role social media has played in the unrest in Egypt that has occupied our TV screens for weeks is a subject of many opinions. What’s pretty clear if you pay attention to Facebook and Twitter is that communication channels…