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Labour can win Brighton Pavilion

The Argus has published a poll that puts Labour in the lead in Brighton Pavilion. Labour: 26% Conservative: 16% Green: 12% Link to the clipping. The Green’s Jason Kitcat has rubbished the poll and spent a great deal of bloggage slagging off the use of graphs by every party but the ... Read more »

Some reflections on social media

I wrote this last spring for a recruiter regarding a job I wasn't really suited to and didn't get. The references are a bit old and it's a bit more of an essay than I would like but as a braindump it sums up some of the ideas I hold regarding social media and, seeing as I hate wasting copy, I ... Read more »

Taking a Shine to Shine…

One good turn deserves another. I was the lucky winner of a cut and blowdry at Shine Hair and Beauty in a raffle at the Brightwest Twitter Meet-up back in September. Since they were generous enough to donate the prize, the least I can do is blog about how marvellous it was. Thankfully, I don’t ... Read more »

Don’t show my dad this….

Spotted this shop in Sussex. Hoping it doesn't give my old man any ... Read more »

Political ‘crowdsourcing’: must the ‘crowd’ always be the ‘usual suspects’?

The Brighton Argus has embarked upon an interesting social media ‘crowdsourcing’ experiment. Voters in the hyper-marginal Brighton Pavilion parliamentary constituency are invited to report their encounters with party candidates via Google Maps. The idea sprang from the Brighton Future of ... Read more »

Where’s Ben Duncan’s blog gone?

I know that Ben Duncan and his other Green Party colleagues care keenly about openness, honesty and transparency. They're right. It's the lifeblood of politics. That's why I was terribly worried to hear that Ben Duncan's blog had disappeared from blogland in the past few days. I'm a regular ... Read more »