Election laws can’t cope with data harvesting – which suits politicians fine (video)


Political parties are making increasing use of data analytics to track voters’ behaviour on sites such as Facebook and Twitter in order to send them political messages they will find persuasive. Parties have been campaigning on Facebook as part of … Continue reading

Trump watch 4 and 5: What Donald did on my holidays (video)


Taking time off while the Trump campaign is in full-swing means catching-up is a massively time-consuming exercise, but always an amusing one. From Rudy Giuliani in drag to Trump asking minority voters who he has racially abused to vote for him because … Continue reading

sind wir nicht alle in einem Boot sitzen


In the last few weeks we have had Danny Alexander and Nadhim Zahawi telling us that a 7 day wait without the income to feed our families before being able to claim Job Seekers Allowance is a good idea “because it works in Sweden”. … Continue reading