Category: Politics
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Some transparency at least
The Cabinet Office official who left top-secret documents on a train in June is to be charged under the Official Secrets Act, the BBC reports. […] BBC defence correspondent Frank Gardner said the move would have come as a surprise…
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Gordon Brown’s first step
I watched a good 40 minutes of Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, broadcast live on BBC News. If you read the speech, I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty good as far…
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Have your say in the US election
A neat idea from The Economist concerning the forthcoming US presidential election: The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world’s countries (including the United States) a say in the election’s outcome. As in America,…
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The real problem with political leadership
I was reading a rather good political commentary in The Guardian yesterday (spotted via a David Brain tweet) by Danny Rogers, the editor of PR Week UK, in which he laments the lack of strategic communication counsel at 10 Downing…