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  • A coalition post

    A coalition post

    26th April 2010 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this

    Three articles have caught my eye this morning, partly because I was logging on here to write largely the same kind of piece only without the same level of detail, historical analysis or wordsmithsmanship. So instead, what with the wonders of the internet and everything, I will simply link to them and spare you 600 words on why the three party system is anathema to a well maintained and regularly serviced political system.

    Telegraph.co.uk: Boris...

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  • Twitter claims its first scalp of the election

    Twitter claims its first scalp of the election

    9th April 2010 | 1 comments | 3 people like this

    It was always going to happen. Today Stuart MacLennan, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Moray (it's in Scotland), was sacked because of tweets he posted before he was selected. Quite brilliantly he is quoted as saying in the past, ""Iain Dale reckons the biggest gaffes will likely be made by candidates on Twitter - what are the odds it'll be me?"

    Obviously you'll be wondering what he said, so if you're...

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  • Google Conservatism in the post-bureaucratic age

    Google Conservatism in the post-bureaucratic age

    8th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    One of the reasons I will always vote Conservative is because of their ideological belief in reducing the size of the state. The majority of 'problems', for which government seeks policy 'solutions', are national in nature - schools, hospitals, immigration, housing - but local in their specifics. One council might have a housing shortage but plenty of excellent schools, another might have a deficit of overseas workers, another might have...

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  • Iran: the New Media Revolution?

    Iran: the New Media Revolution?

    17th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Many countries have been in Iran's current situation: joke elections, electoral fraud that would make Mugabe think twice and a leader that thinks that ignoring the protestations of his electorate is the solution to retaining power. Once upon a time this might have worked - doubtless it has before - but not now. Whether or not this is the first new media (actual) revolution of course depends on the outcome, but...

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Clark Hogan-Taylor

Clark Hogan-Taylor

Inbetween shouting at the news and his unreliable coffee machine, Clark Hogan-Taylor will be satirising and commenting on today's political news.