I sincerely hope this post isn’t seen as being disrespectful to someone who was clearly a remarkable woman, but Madelyn Dunham’s death today has a weird kind of appositeness. I’m hardly the first person to point out the almost fictional-feeling narrative of Barack Obama’s election campaign. He has a background that is almost too perfect,… Continue reading From Smallville to Metropolis: how Obama represents the American Dream
Month: November 2008
How to make UKIP look good…
Well done Buster Mottram for handing Nigel Farage a bit of a propaganda coup: UKIP says it has “unanimously rejected” an offer from the British National Party for an electoral pact at next year’s European elections. It says ex-tennis star Buster Mottram, a UKIP member who claimed to represent the BNP, made the “astonishing offer”… Continue reading How to make UKIP look good…
And the award for most patronising bollocks aimed those plucky ladies goes to…
Well done to Scottish Widows and Dods for coming up with what is possibly the most ridiculously patronising design for a website aimed at women in public life I’ve ever come across (and as one of the organisers of the Campaign for Gender Balance Awards last year I speak from experience). It isn’t just the… Continue reading And the award for most patronising bollocks aimed those plucky ladies goes to…