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Continue reading →: We have no voice even when we ask nicely!
So I wrote to the Lib Dems over my concerns of an impending referendum to see what response I got, not a thing, so I thought I’d post it here. While I am not unaware of the apparent arrogance in writing such a letter I strongly felt it needed to…
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Continue reading →: We need a new approach or its more of the same!
This is an idea I’ve had, for a while, I was hoping the new Unionist party would take up the baton but it died a death, which was not unexpected. In the absence of any other alternatives I thought I’d post up my ideas I wrote at the time of…
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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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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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