I’m not sure how to write this blog entry, for it relates to something that has been on my mind for a long, long time. Yet, unlike most of the things have have been on my mind a while, it is the first time I have blogged directly about this […]
Tag: Labour Party
Rick Falkvinge and the Pirates
A few weeks ago at a meeting in London, one of the Labour Party’s best known bloggers literally snorted at me when I said that Labour had much to learn from the Pirate Party. But I’m undeterred by that, and having spent the last week in Germany, I’ve been looking […]
It’s high time Labour started thinking up a tech policy
I had an interesting discussion this morning in Oslo with an old friend (Hallstein Bjercke) and his colleague at IKT Norge, Torgeir Waterhouse. IKT is the trade association for the Norwegian IT sector, and Hallstein and Torgeir work on IT and tech policy questions with Norwegian politicians on a daily basis. […]
When is Labour party debate going to catch up with the internet reality?
“Newspapers / the media / leafletting / canvassing [delete as applicable] are surely the least of his problems!” Can you really imagine a UK political activist saying any of those four possible phrases about the campaign for someone running for mayor of a London borough, and not leaving themselves open […]
Amplifying an event through social media (or not) – lessons from #lab10
I’m a big fan of using social media – particularly Twitter (via one of more hash tags) and blogs – during large events and conferences. The event itself, the speakers’ presentations, are like a rock being dropped into a pool, and the social media reactions are the ripples going out […]
Brown: back him or sack him, but definitely do not dither
OK, here we go again. I’ve lost track of the number of times that there have been weak and weedy attempts to ditch Gordon Brown over the last 9 months or so. This time things are perhaps a little bit different – the Hoon-Hewitt plot is open and on the […]
In the postmodern putsch you have to move the victim somewhere – so where for Brown?
If you don’t like a politician what do you do with him or her? International organisations are always an option. Could this work for Labour and Gordon Brown? Let me explain. Brussels is full of national politicians who no longer had a role in their national capitals; Neil Kinnock was […]