Why the media don’t understand money

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This is a recent talk I gave to the annual conference for the non-governmental organisation Positive Money. A word to make clear my interests: Positive Money is an organisation whose work I greatly admire and for whom I have done some volunteer work in the last year or so and for whom I may do […]

Baronista LinkedIn logo image suggestions

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I recently joined the Baronistas LinkedIn group, a place for online discussions between ex-Reuters and ex-Thomson Reuters people working in communications for non-profits such as international organizations and NGOs. I reckon it might be useful as a source of ideas and interactions. It needs a logo so I’m parking a couple of images here, rather […]

Graphics journalism as real journalism

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I tried but failed to register a comment this morning on an article carried by the Global Editors Network about how the Guardian covered US elections. Something to do with captcha errors that I couldn’t be fussed to wrestle with. The piece was all about the whizzy things done by Gabriel Dance and his team, […]

Demand the impossible – sounds like the least we can do

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I’ve just come across this Guardian report about a free, five-day course at Goldsmith’s College in London on activism and radical politics. I commented on the piece, criticisng the piss-taking style in which it was written while also including an offer to help out with future courses or with spreading the idea elsewhere. Just in […]

Stand aside George

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People’s budgets The Chancellor George Osborne was talking of his plans to cut a further £10 billion from the UK’s annual welfare budget as I drove through rush-hour traffic to Kingston-upon-Thames. News of his crowd-pleasing speech to the Conservative party conference spouted from the radio as I wondered how such questions might be decided with […]

People’s budgets or the same-old unaccountable ones?

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      The basic message of Fraudcast News is pretty simple, you sort of can’t miss it in the subtitle – How Bad Journalism Supports Our Bogus Democracies. Working from back to front – the bogusness of our democracies is that ordinary citizens get nothing like the influence implied by the word “democracy” – […]