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Continue reading →: My EU leave leaflet has arrived….
….and I am unimpressed. Leading on with a style of campaigning that really came to the fore in the Scottish referendum it is full of misinformation, half truths and outright lies. I had a discussion on soundbite politics with a friend on facebook recently and so I’d like to be…
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Continue reading →: Why I am voting NO, now this is a rant.
It has been massively difficult to get to the bottom of this referendum business, it is not a straight forward issue, economics isn’t that straight forward, international law takes an unemotional level head to even make the slightest bit of sense of and we have two campaigns that have done…
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Continue reading →: Nick Robinson and the unanswered questions.
There is a lot of noise around Nick Robinson and Alex Salmond, culminating in cries of bias and wanting Nick sacked. We all know what video we are talking about here and we all know what actually happened, not in the BBC version but in the main version that the…
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Continue reading →: What the Supermarket Giants are really saying with their comments
There has been an article in the Huffington post and various articles and shares recently about supermarkets coming out in support of independence and confirming that prices wouldn’t rise. Below is the article from the Huffington post with my comments in red. It is far from the positive story being…
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Continue reading →: Negative campaigning? Where?
Is it just me or have I misunderstood what negative campaigning means? There is a lot of talk about the No campaigns negative approach to the referendum, particularly by the Yes campaign. Apart from some Salmond and Sturgeon bashing I am struggling to find the negative campaigning being carried out.…
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This blog grew out of a simple frustration: the gap between real life and the way it’s reported. I’m less interested in headlines than in the framing, assumptions and narratives behind them. I write about the space between noise and nuance, and why the middle is generally where the truth is found.
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