Author Archives: Paul Evans

Paul is a London-based blogger with a mixed track-record over at Never Trust a Hippy and a few other places. He usually writes about representative democracy and decentralisation. Follow him at www.twitter.com/paul0evans if you usually do that kind of thing.

Time to safeguard public service broadcasting

29Apr09 – 19:42

As Clay Shirky has put it so memorably, for the newspaper industry, the glaciers have arrived.
This has provided a useful backdrop for some spectacular special pleading from media owners.
The need to rescue journalism has, for industry lobbyists, been rapidly translated into a need to feather-bed dying industries that have shown no interest in the promotion [...]

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Financial crisis: Perspective.

24Apr09 – 12:34

Brian Barder offers a response to the main claims about UK government finances.

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Canada’s Quiet Bargain

24Apr09 – 12:28

The benefits of public spending - a calculator. (h/t Clifford)

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Erith & Thamesmead – the solution?

19Apr09 – 12:50

Labour's Erith & Thamesmead selection process, and the undoubted unforgiveable skullduggery that has emerged during it, has been dragged into the familliar Brownite / Blairite narrative.
The thing is, looking at the facts, to my eye, as a Party member of reasonably long standing, none of the explanations that are being touted at the moment fit. 
But [...]

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Bloggertarians rebutted

18Apr09 – 09:33

Point by point by Banditry.

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What smeargate tells us about Labour’s relations with the press

17Apr09 – 19:04

Labour’s recent online ‘smeargate’ trouncing has reinforced the widespread perception that the UK Labour Party has failed to really get the blogosphere in the way that some Conservatives do.
The crime that Damian McBride stands convicted of is that he planned to conduct a campaign of personal smears against senior Conservatives. This from Guido Fawkes – [...]

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Brian Cowen photoshopped

30Mar09 – 10:33

If the indignity of Portaitgate wasn't enough, Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen has become the muse of Ireland's photoshoppers.

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A ‘values stimulus’?

26Mar09 – 01:40

If you can overlook the straining to hit every button ("...kids who measure their happiness through iPods and Xboxes; parents who ....host parties for young teenagers where alcohol flows freely"), John Healey and Ivan Lewis' article in today's Independent is worth a look for a couple of reasons.

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