The Tories are very smug about webcameron, but which party leader recorded the first podcast? Step forward William Ewart Gladstone, who started the whole thing off back in 1888 (with a bit of help from Thomas Edison).
Month: June 2007
“Pity the poor rich old ladies!” Oh dear, here we go again…
In recent months, I’ve noticed a marked increase in media stories about intergenerational equity, pointing out that young people today are up to their eyeballs in debt and struggling to get onto the housing ladder. I suspected there would be a backlash against this, and it would appear that the Observer has started a rearguard… Continue reading “Pity the poor rich old ladies!” Oh dear, here we go again…
Carrot Conspiratorial
Over at Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science Blog, he has a Daily Politics piece by Jasper Carrot about the eeeevils of mobile phone masts. It’s all very nudge, nudge, wink, wink, conspiracy theory laden stuff with virtually no rebuttal (apart from a good dressing down by studio guest Gwyneth Dunwoody). About the only thing he gets… Continue reading Carrot Conspiratorial