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Theme : politics
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Good politics and bad art
It's becoming commonplace to talk about a revival of political art - just look at all the plays that have recently been written about evil Mr Bush and his lapdog Mr Tony. But is any of it actually any good? I've seen a couple of examples of the genre in the last week or two, and they leave me cold. Has good politics started to equal bad art?What sparked me off today was the picture at the centre of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. Tony and Cherie are shown being expelled from no.10 while...
from : simonparker
4th June 2007
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Cameron vs Brown
Listening to David Cameron on the radio this morning as he explained why Grammar Schools are a bad idea (whilst simultaneously trying to explain why his shadow cabinet is full of old Etonians) it became clear to me what some of the opportunities and threats are for both sides in the battle between Cameron and Brown. The main threat for Cameron (and the opportunity for Brown) is that Cameron is trying to find a language that is sufficiently different from the Old Conservatives to have appeal...
from : grahamebroadbelt
22nd May 2007
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Mashup politics - when everyday democracy meets the web
The personal democracy forum conference (and unconference) are over until 2008. Two main things struck me. First, the younger generation (as Danah Boyd pointed out) don't think of the internet as 'not real' - it is an indivisible part of their social lives. It follows that the virtual/physical divide won't be as obvious in the next elections either. The Pew survey on politics and the internet shows how quickly things are changing. In 2006, 23% of people who are using the internet for politics...
from : mollywebb
21st May 2007
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From Siena to State Britain
I spoke at a debate for Resonance Fm at the Pumphouse Gallery last night. Here's a text of what I said.
from : samjones
18th May 2007
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The Mad-for-it Hatter's Tea Party
What did that handshake with Noel Gallagher really mean?
from : samjones
16th May 2007
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That was a party political broadcast...
I’ve been following an interesting thread unpicked from the loud, often shapeless YouTube quilt. On March 5th a YouTube user called ParkRidge47 uploaded a video called Vote Different. It is a riff on Apple’s 1984 ad. There was some intrigue, however, over the question of who had made the explicitly partisan video...
from : petebradwell
3rd April 2007
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Miliband could still succeed me - Blair | Politics | The Observer
Miliband could still succeed me - Blair | Politics | The Observer
from : mollywebb
28th March 2007
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We're all diplomats now...
Today, we launched Cultural Diplomacy at the V&A in South Kensington. It argues for the importance of culture in the way that we relate to each other in the world today. As well as providing a medium through which we can relate to one another, culture is emerging a space in which those relations can be conducted.
from : samjones
28th February 2007
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American dream?
So Barack Obama is standing for President. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about (as Tim Hames is) and a have a spare fifteen minutes, this is the speech that announced his arrival on the national stage in the US. Worth a watch, if you're into that kind of thing.
from : duncanoleary
12th February 2007
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We don't need no thought control...
Iain Dale writes an interesting post on his blog to today, criticising Alan Johnson and David Miliband’s decision to send a DVD of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to every secondary school in the country. He argues:
from : duncanoleary
2nd February 2007
