Category: Society

  • No hoverboards in San Francisco?

    I love a journalist who genuinely has a way with words. Who’s actually a good writer. Who might have an agenda and doesn’t pretend he or she doesn’t. Who touches on things that make you nod in recognition as well…

  • Capturing the zeitgeist

    The always-excellent cartoonist Matt sums things up very nicely in today’s Daily Telegraph with this front-page cartoon. In such a British tongue-in-cheek way, it captures the zeitgeist surrounding two highly topical and opinion-provoking events that have dominated the mainstream media…

  • Ignore the noise

    Plenty of heaving shoulders and taking deep breaths this week over some of the utter drivel published in the mainstream media about Twitter and other social media. It’s mostly about Twitter, though. There’s so much of it – it’s not…

  • Connecting government with its publics

    A tweet from @downingstreet, the Twitter handle of the communications team in the Prime Minister’s office at 10 Downing Street, prompted me to check in at Number10.gov.uk at 11am this morning to witness a question-and-answer session with members of the…

  • It’s the economy, right?

    I don’t know about you but I get confused every time I watch the news on TV, hear it on the radio or read about it online. It’s that ‘e’ word – the economy. Every time it’s mentioned, I get…