The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: TED | TEDBlog: The bad news about the news: Alisa Miller on TED.com. This TED Talk makes interesting viewing and Alisa Miller’s use of graphics is great. I wonder what a map of the world would look like if you applied the same methodology to UK news broadcasts? http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf

As my maternal grandmother was from Nantwich and my grandfather from Crewe, the upcoming by-election is in familiar territory. The media is setting the Conservatives up for a fall by talking up their chances. Unless the world has changed more than I think, they are not great. The two towns…

I switched over to Sky News last night to wait for Boris’s acceptance speech. I noticed they were reporting 300 Conservative gains in the local elections, rather than the lower BBC figure I had watched build until Auntie lost interest as the voters misbehaved. I checked the final figures this…

Link: BBC NEWS | Politics | Johnson wins London mayoral race. Congratulations, Boris. What a shame that the House of Commons will lose one of its few principled and intelligent members to a largely ceremonial post. It’s probably worth it, to save Londoners the embarrassment of having a Mayor prepared…

Link: Iain Dale’s Diary: Vote in the April Political Performance Index. One of the most interesting initiatives in the blogosphere at present is Iain Dale’s monthly "Politiical Performance Index." Why not head over there (follow the link above) to vote?