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No-one cares about mass movements (until they do)
Nick Srnicek, one of my fellow PhD students at the LSE (and contributor to http://thedisorderofthings.com/) asked on Facebook recently whether there was any good literature out there on why some occupations (for which I am choosing to read mass protest … Continue reading
No-one cares about the feral youth
So…The good old Daily Mail has the best selection of images and videos that I’ve seen of last night’s trouble invarious parts of London, and other parts of the UK, while some enterprising person has collated a bunch of Youtube … Continue reading
Posted in Riots, Twitter, Young People
Tagged Boris Johnson, Cuts, David Cameron, London, londonriots, Tories
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No one cares about the News of the World
Wow. Shortly after 4pm this afternoon, News International Chairman James Murdoch announced the immediate closure of the News of the World. A campaign launched on Twitter to get major NOTW advertisers to withhold their business from the paper had provided … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter
Tagged James Murdoch, News International, News of the World, Public Opinion, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter
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No One Cares About Phone Hacking
Perhaps a slightly misleading title, as, apparently, quite a few people DO care. A story which has been rumbling along since 2006, about a private investigator hired by the News of the World to hack into the private mobile phone … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Noam Chomsky, Rupert Murdoch
Tagged Media, News of the World, Noam Chomsky, Phone Hacking, Public Opinion, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter
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Higher Education Funding 2
I thought it worth updating the last post, with today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee having confirmed that the decision of most universities to charge the maximum tuition fee permissible under the hatchet-job misimplementation of the Browne Report recommendations means … Continue reading
Higher Education Funding
Some interesting contributions have been made recently to the debate over British higher education funding. Howard Hotson has criticised the use of the US system as an example for Britain to aspire to emulate, and his argument that US universities … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education, Young People
Tagged David Willetts, Education, Incentives, Market Forces, Tuition fees, Universities
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If you don’t vote, no-one cares what you think
Another May, another opportunity not to vote. The No campaign is trying to hustle its supporters to the polling stations by warning that a low turnout makes a Yes result more likely. Maybe. Last-minute polling figures suggest a fairly comfortable … Continue reading
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No-one Cares What You Think About AV (part 3…)
No-one actually cares what the electorate thinks about changing the voting system from FPTP to AV. Only once previously has the UK held a referendum, in 1975 to approve British entry into the then European Economic Community. Conventionally, a referendum … Continue reading
Posted in AV Referendum
Tagged Alternative Vote, AV Referendum, Coalition Government, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Public Opinion
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AV Update
Just a quick update on the referendum. Firstly, impressed to see the No campaign has taken out adverts on the UK polling report website. Secondly, the polls are now showing the No campaign in the lead, suggesting we’ll be sticking … Continue reading
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Royal Wedding Blues
The Guardian has some interesting poll data relating to the upcoming royal nuptials later this week. Among the headlines are the discovery that 63% of respondents thought the country would be worse off if the monarchy was abolished, and 67% … Continue reading
Posted in British Monarchy, Young People
Tagged Budget, Monarchy, Opinion Polling, Young People
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