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Category: Politics

  • Political communication from the edge

    Yesterday’s budget announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling occupies the full attention of the mainstream media today. Not only the media: bloggers, tweeters and anyone online with an opinion is there, too, as people pore over the detail…

  • On digital defects and other political gaps

    Of all the continuing reporting, commentary, op-eds and general opinion about the Damian McBride affair aka Smeargate that I’ve been reading, an opinion piece by PR Week editor Danny Rogers in today’s Guardian is pretty good. Rogers assesses the current…

  • A dose of pre-Budget propaganda

    I just spend a minute and a half watching Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling talking about the 2009 UK budget, the details of which he’ll be presenting to Parliament in a few days time, on April 22. What do…

  • The tipping point for UK political blogs

    Although I’ve largely been offline over the Easter weekend – meaning, not using Twitter or much RSS reading – I have been following developments in the extraordinary tale of No 10’s (former) communication strategist Damian McBride’s emails to LabourList blogger…

  • Powerful imagery at Easter

    This Good Friday is an apt day on which to think about death and destruction. Rather, avoiding death and destruction in a world without nuclear weapons, a call to action made by Barack Obama in Prague last week. The Economist…