Archive for the 'Political Folly' Category

The Google Giant & The Dragon
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Google takes on the Chinese Dragon.

Murdoch Jr. goes Beeb
Monday, August 31st, 2009

Murdoch Jr. was invited to speak at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV festival and took the opportunity to champion a free media market and take a stab at the Beeb & the regulatory organisations in the UK.

Fleet Street’s Dark Arts exposed
Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s Communications Director/Spin Master, is having a difficult time distancing himself from the Clive Goodman phone-tapping scandal.

MPsExpensesGate: Winners & Losers
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Now, I am a little disappointed that no one has even attempted to throw the suffix ‘-gate’ to the MP’s expense claim scandal, so I, Lone Ranger, am going to singlehandedly start using the term MPsExpensesGate here.

This man is unsellable.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

So it looks like New Labour’s reign is over and we are about to see the Tories back in the seat .
One could point to certain short-comings in Gordon Brown’s political skills (amongst other things this slick, bullet-dodging manoeuvre when he apologised for the Damian McBride smear-emails: I take full responsibility for what happened and [...]