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Category: Politics

  • The leaders debate gameshow

    Thinking about the televised live debate last night between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg – leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats parties – I still have the same view I had after watching it last…

  • The dilemma of message control on live TV

    A challenge for broadcasters during the election campaign that’s now well underway – the next UK general election takes place on May 6, in just under four weeks’ time – is controlling their broadcasts in terms of what you see…

  • What to expect in a UK digital election campaign

    Months of speculation ended yesterday with the news that the UK general election will take place on May 6, a month from now. Get ready, everyone, for four weeks’ of intense message-pushing, stunts, posters (Photoshopped or not), door-knocking, leaflets, TV…

  • Twitter and Facebook part of Costa Rica election

    Electing a woman to be your head of state isn’t that big a deal these days. The latest country to join a long list of states with women leaders is Costa Rica: in the presidential election conducted yesterday, the winner…

  • Meet the ridiculous David Cameron

    I bet that Conservative Party communication planners didn’t imagine that the result of the billboards of David Cameron plastering poster sites up and down the country this week (click the thumbnail for the full image) is the soft backlash that…