I couldn’t help but feel the Observer political columnist Andrew Rawnsley was totally arse-about-face in his line of questions and comment during this interview with TV political satirist Armando Iannucci. I read the piece and commented on the website, as per below. What do you […]
I posted this in response to a LinkedIn question about reporter, collaboratively owned news operations. I dream of these as alternatives to the status quo. I’m sure their time will come. The best one I came across, before it expired, was this: http://www.newstandardnews.net/ This is what it said about itself: The NewStandard was a […]
Very little, I say, as I explained in a video recorded for a GlobalNet21 debate held in London on Tuesday, July 31. Not least of the problems is the gathering, multiple crises in government legitimacy, at every level from the local to global. There was an interesting array of opinions expressed on the night, judging […]
I wrote this comment in response to a commentary piece by ex-colleague and current friend Paul Holmes about recent editorial changes being for the better at Thomson Reuters, despite the recent “cock-ups and casualties”. I disagreed. Patrick Chalmers • I have a great deal of respect for Paul Holmes as an ex-colleague and as a […]
There have been some great stories and columns from the Guardian/Observer news operation over the last few days – on trillions of pounds lost to secrecy jurisdictions, drug money laundering by global banks such as HSBC and the way banks write loans by magicking money out of thin air. The big shame, for me, is […]
I was delighted to spend a couple of hours today talking democracy with John Dunn, emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King’s College, Cambridge. Professor Dunn wrote the excellent “Setting the People Free“, a book that helped me nail down my thinking on the evolution of “democracy” since the Ancient Greeks coined a term for […]
I wrote this blog entry for Stir magazine, which has a kickstarter campaign underway to raise funds for printing offline versions of the wonderful work it does already online. Have a think about the stuff you usually fritter your money away on, petrol for the Porsche, a Lear jet flight to Monaco, private banking advice […]
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Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger lays out the issues for Leveson media inquiry but misses out the crucial media-governance link http://ow.ly/bNw5d
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