Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
I left work last night and Parliament was well and truly hung; by the time I got home, a new PM was courting the Queen.
They're funny times that we live in. For me, this election has been the busiest, most relevant and most divisive that I've lived through. Facebook status were ...
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Didn’t you just die a little inside for Gordon Brown when you heard about his monumentally awful gaffe? And then to see it played out ad nauseum across the world’s media. Mortified just doesn’t come close to describe it. You just know that those few little words – particularly the ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
It seems this year’s election is getting everyone a bit hot under the collar. For one thing, the release of the Tory manifesto today has sparked an interesting debate in the Peppermint office. From abuse of the benefits system and British history, through to the economic problems and immigration, everyone ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
So the election campaign has finally hit the road. US-style TV debating aside, my favourite bit of the coming weeks will be attempts by the competing parties to recreate the magic of such election-winning ads as Saatchi & Saatchi’s brilliant “Labour isn’t working” ad back in 1979. Fast forward to ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
I wonder if Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone – founders of Twitter – ever envisioned that their cute microblog would become the mouthpiece of an oppressed people in the Middle East.
Social media has empowered Iran’s citizen journalists to circumvent their nation’s draconian and ever-encroaching media censorship. It’s giving ...
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