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Entries from May 21st, 2014

Why do the Tories have to do it?

May 21st, 2014 · Comments Off on Why do the Tories have to do it? · Politics

What is it with the Tories? They appear to be pathologically incapable of resisting the urge to lie, even when they don’t need to.

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Ready for the count

May 21st, 2014 · Comments Off on Ready for the count · Life, Politics

I received my letter today, the one that gets me into the local elections count on Friday, so it must be time for my traditional pre-election rant about that… Why can’t they just let anybody in? If anybody is really interested and engaged enough to want to go to the count and see democracy in […]

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I would like to tweet about this ‘ere dead parrot

May 21st, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life, Technology

An interesting article on the BBC News site today about using Twitter to complain about things. Amongst other things it says: According to a poll of 2,000 people by the communications agency Fishburn Hedges and Echo Research in April 2012, 36% of people had used a social media platform to contact a big company and […]

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