Feb
11
Lib Dem leaflet masquerades as a Labour leaflet. They claim to want a “clean, open politics” but the leaflet is a muddled variation of negative attacks, toothless campaigns and sleights of hand.
Sep
24
Why can’t politicians communicate?
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Why can so few politicians communicate effectively? I was dismayed, but not shocked, to hear Nick Clegg tell Lib Dem conference that “we need to talk to people like grown-ups”. There’s so much wrong with this statement it doesn’t deserve analysis. But he’s not the only politician who struggles to talk normal.
What happens when they are at home? Can they only do corporate speak?
Sep
22
Is the local newspaper the new aviary?
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The Southampton aviary was much loved and its passing has never been forgotten by some local citizens. But when it was open, it was not sufficiently well loved for enough people to have visited it. The debate about local newspapers has the same ring of an ‘expectation gap’ between how life is and how we would like it to be.