Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
"democracy"
Charlie Tims has 3 items tagged with this theme. Find more on this theme : » show items from across the site
- Not Quite Proving you can't keep a good man down, a lucid Tom Bentley bounced back after being ejected from the Demosphere last week, by showing up on the Today program this morning to talk about cross-dressing politics with David Aaronovitch. You can listen again here. It's the 8.55 slot you want to listen to. from : charlietims 31st July 2006
- giddy for Giddy "Britain is a sophisticated 21st-century society, but we still make do with a crude 19th-century system of limited and indirect democracy." This is Saira Khan. Apparently she was in a TV programme called The Apprentice. This was a sort of staged masochism where contestents tried to make money in "real life situations" before being ritually humiliated Alan Sugar. In anycase the experience doesn't seem to have broken Saira. She has an article in The Times today... from : charlietims 4th September 2006
- (how to) go down like london. The London Olympics in 2012 will be the first “post-exotic” games. The Beijing games the summer after next will mark the end of a 20 year run of host cities that used the games as a global launch-pad to announce themselves to the world. Our perceptions of Seoul 88, Barcelona 92, Atlanta 96, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 are all built on images and associations created during their Olympiad’s. For the majority of the 4.5 billion people watching London’s Olympics, the... from : charlietims 23rd October 2006