by Jack Barrow | Jul 27, 2015 | Current Affairs, General Silliness, Media, Politics, Social Media
Users of The Internet were incensed today by a newspaper article that told the truth but was totally made up. The article, attributed to someone with a name that couldn’t possibly exist, told how people were surprised that government policy was turning out to be bad...
by Jack Barrow | Jul 8, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics, Social Media, Twitter
Last night I was somewhat surprised to see Douglas Carswell, the only UKIP MP, on Newsnight again commenting on Inheritance Tax; a subject that I don’t really remember UKIP campaigning on in the election. This made me wonder why he was asked to take part in that...
by Jack Barrow | May 1, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics, Thoughts and Observations
We’ve been hearing about millions using food banks in every part of the country, we can’t pay care workers for their travelling time and the NHS is falling apart. Now we hear that it’s taken a week for us to send three helicopters to Nepal after an earthquake has...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 8, 2015 | Current Affairs, Politics
Russell Brand wants people to show their protest by not voting. People have been not voting in steadily increasing numbers for decades and things have stayed much the same during that time. That form of protest has been labelled voter apathy with pundits claiming the...
by Jack Barrow | Nov 21, 2014 | Current Affairs, Politics
It’s said that the Greens aren’t going to get a place in the TV debates for the 2015 General Election. The explanation for this is that UKIP have experienced a groundswell of support over the last year or so. They did well in the recent euro elections and their sudden...
by Jack Barrow | Nov 13, 2014 | Media, Social Media, Thoughts and Observations
Reactions to the Sainsbury’s Christmas advert have been bouncing around the social media world for the last day or so. It’s a genuinely moving piece of film (it moved me to tears but then again so do some episodes of Star Trek) and it’s very well made. It’s thoughtful...
