What makes good politics? It has been a sort of obsession of mine over the years, although I have never actually written the question in that way before. On this blog I have looked at the fortunes of the Yes Campaign in Scotland, the Brexit referendum, the Catalan independence movement. […]
Tag: Jeremy Cliffe
Helping “Radicals UK”, Jeremy Cliffe’s inadvertent political movement
At 2251 on 17.10.2017, Jeremy Cliffe tweeted this: Remotely interested in a possible new anti-Brexit party with transformative social-liberal policies? Email "I'm in" to: radicalsuk {at} gmail(.)com — Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) October 17, 2017 At 2316 the Twitter name @RadicalsUK was secured by me, and then I messaged Jeremy. The […]
Merkel in London – a case study in political tweeting
Angela Merkel spoke in London earlier today, and – as could have been predicted in advance – it was one of the most interesting political stories of the day in UK and indeed EU and German politics. A BBC story with all the background can be found here. Such events […]