Rules and Media Restraint

I’ve just come back from an event discussing the future of the UK’s Coalition Government, put on by Lexington Communications and ConservativeHome. But that’s about as much as I can say. There are rules. This event was under one of the most famous, the Chatham House Rule, named after the offices of the Royal Institute of International […]

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Kids React to Osama bin Laden’s death

Benny and Rafi Fine make videos. One of their projects involves showing children (ages 6-13) Youtube viral videos and then interviewing them about them. This sounds like it could be a pretty awful idea, but the regular panel is made up of  intelligent, articulate, sharp and funny kids, and while some are certainly echoing back […]

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Welcome

Welcome. Over the last few weeks I wrote a few posts I quite enjoyed writing those posts about the referendum on the electoral system, so I’ve decided to set up a proper platform from which to foist my opinions on a reluctant world. I’ll be blogging here on various things that interest me: politics, technology, […]

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AV final thoughts and strategic voting

I’ve been in the USA since Wednesday, for work. Because my work has a political aspect, I always end up having to explain the UK’s political system to Americans. This is difficult, because the US political system was designed by lots of clever people meeting over a period of a couple of years, based on […]

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De Do Ron Ron Ron

I wrote in my first blog on Av that I’d voted, campaigned and stood in more than a hundred individual AV elections. Those elections were for roles in Jewish youth organisations, my Student Union, the National Union of Students, trade unions and voluntary groups. Despite the fact that these elections happened at different times in […]

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