Priming the pump to make your MP jump

Priming the pump to make your MP jump

by | Oct 20, 2017 | DailyFT

Here’s a radical idea. What if – instead of liking it or lumping it as you do for years on end – the voter could hold his or her Member of Parliament accountable for their performance? Not just at election time. But in-between those ‘too-few...
That big bad wolf is out to get you!

That big bad wolf is out to get you!

by | Oct 13, 2017 | DailyFT

  I think you know what one means. There is always someone else whose fault it is that life sucks.  My recent encounters however with large dangerous predators of the Big Bad Wolf type have been nothing but positive. Food and books? Yum. More of the same, if...
Media Freedom: alive and not so well… is it?

Media Freedom: alive and not so well… is it?

by | Sep 22, 2017 | DailyFT

FOURTH ESTATE, OR FIFTH COLUMN? In the good old days, it was said that journalists could be bought for a snifter of bottled sunshine. Today, it’s “sunshine stories” that too many scribes in the so-called free media milieu are bottling for public consumption. While far...
Powerful zealots and the prisoners of Zen

Powerful zealots and the prisoners of Zen

by | Sep 15, 2017 | DailyFT

I have been thinking about prison and their inmates a lot recently. Not because it is the pleasantest of subjects. But because I have been bombarded by media, social media, and antisocial elements on the subject. And I’m beginning to smell a rat. Or half a dozen.On...