Posts Tagged ‘Question Time’
Two thousand and tense
There is an air of desperation about the blinking-newborn days of this box-fresh decade. Is it just me or is the media a little (to use a Christmas cracker punchline) tense? I have a few ideas of my own hypothesising why this great funk has swept over the nation like so many cold fronts sweeping [...]
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Tags: 2010, Baldwin, CBB, Christmas, David Tennant, desperate, Doctor Who, election, expenses, gym, Lady Sovereign, pay day, Politics, Question Time, recession, resolutions, Tension, wine
The reformation of the Government which was promised to us in 1996 has, if nothing else, reversed and regressed back to the bad old days of pomp and hierarchy. The whole ‘us’ and ‘them’ attitude of The Commons stinks. There is no better word to encompass my feeling towards the last weeks of reluctant coughing [...]
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Tags: Alan Duncan, committee, Commons, election, expenses, House of Commons, Jacqui Smith, members club, pomp, Question Time, UKYP, voters
The advent of social networking has exploded the traditional media field. The last week has demonstrated this fact beautifully, proving all the more pointedly that the popular voice can now shout louder than any headline. This has rung true in the case of Jan Moir’s misguided column on the speculated drama surrounding the death of [...]
Filed under: Journalism, News, Politics, Twitter, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: BNP, Boyzone, British National Party, Daily Mail, David Dimbleby, democracy, fascism, Jan Moir, Nick Griffin, outrage, Politics, Question Time, racism, Stephen Gately, tweeting, Twitter
