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An interesting article by Iain Dale in the online Telegraph queries whether the UK is really having an “internet election”. Dale comments that: This was supposed to be the election when internet politics came of age, when the blogosphere and social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook had a real impact on the campaign.…
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So the government has rejected the request for shops to open on Workers’ Day. Spokespersons for the ministry of finance said that circumstances were not extraordinary such as to warrant allowing shops to stay open. I’m missing something here. What is the principle behind whether or not shops open on a particular day? Whether it…
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I received a link to an interesting blogpost about the role of Election Videos (online) at election time in the UK (see it here at Putneydebater). There is no doubt that online videos will have an important role in the next election in Malta. Most of them will turn viral and there will be a…
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As I said in the previous post, speculation on Cleggmania is ripe in the papers. I just came across another article as I ran through today’s Times. Incidentally, for an election that is only ten days away it is incredible how (proportionally) little newspaper space it takes up. The front page of the printed Times…
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Cleggmania is generating a huge amount of literature (is it too big a word?) on the subject of third way politics. I came across this article by David Mitchell in the Observer (David Cameron feels the hand of history where it hurts) and it was one of those articles that you read while constantly nodding…
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Fellow Indy columnist Stephen Calleja has penned an obituary and death sentence in one on today’s edition of the Malta Independent. Calleja introduces his column (“Too weak too be called a force”) with the inspired sentence “Another tiddler has called it a day”. For those among us who have little or no knowledge in the…