Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the AV referendum, and I felt I should mark the date somehow. For me, the AV referendum was the event that finally broke me, in terms of my political career. It’s possible that if I hadn’t had such an awful experience being involved in Yes to Fairer Votes I… Continue reading “Ballots, butts and Battlestar Galactica” – ten years on from the AV referendum
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Westworld Season 3: how not to portray a global crisis
So I binge watched Westworld Season 3 this weekend, as the riots in reaction to the police murder of George Floyd across the US unfurled and with the global coronavirus pandemic in the background. And it felt weirdly out of time, a weird mash up of media from the past which hasn’t dated well. Spoiler… Continue reading Westworld Season 3: how not to portray a global crisis
Election 2019: my Lib dilemma
By even more than my usual standards this is a dreadful ramble, being as it is an attempt to nail down my thinking about the state of the Liberal Democrat and Labour parties right now. tl;dr: I’m just so tired of this shit. So, now that both the Lib Dem and Labour manifestos have been… Continue reading Election 2019: my Lib dilemma