Category Archives: political coverage
BBC News Election Special: “Coalition of the winners”
And the winner is …. TV. After months in advance of being told “it’s social media, stupid”, this election has made us realise that TV rules. They can do fast, they can do slow. They can give us the raw … Continue reading
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Election News Special 2010: “Coalition of the losers”
The longest TV election night in UK history now reaches its 96th hour. Have they allowed David Dimbleby some sleep? Judging by his appearance at the hurriedly arranged 8.30 pm BBC1 Election special, he’s had a few hours kip. But … Continue reading
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Leaders’ Debate: An airhead’s view
I know all about making decisions, I am in the middle of making one right now. Its getting warmer and its time to decide….will it be Gladiator sandals, flip flops or ballet pumps this summer? Anyway I decided to show him I could take an interest in the Live Debate and besides, I love anything with Ant and Dec hosting. Continue reading
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Prime Ministerial Debate: Cameron gets his Clegg over
This was an odd one. To be frank it bored the pants off me. They were all practised and smoothed off to within an inch of their lives. They were all, for different reasons, scared to put a foot wrong. … Continue reading
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Leaders’ Debate 2: the difficult second album
Would Cleggmania continue to ride rampant over what he would persistently call the “old parties”, or would his bubble burst as the electorate woke up from a seven-day bender wondering what the hell they ever saw in him? In practice, … Continue reading
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Leaders’ Debate: Clegg nicks it
Well there it was. TV history in the making. It was exciting just for the fact it happened. Even if nothing really did happen. There was no “you’re no Jack Kennedy” moment. No zinger from one candidate which turned the … Continue reading
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How to win the TV debate: Michael Cockerell
Well, if you weren’t already excited by the prospect of the political leaders’ TV debates and persuaded that this is a turning point for UK politics, then Michael Cockerell’s fascinating How to win the TV debate should have changed your … Continue reading
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Ask the Chancellors
An odd title for a programme given that there was only one actual Chancellor and two would-be Chancellors, but never mind. Just one of the many compromises involved in a programme that was wrongly hyped as paving the way to … Continue reading
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