We’ve been able to see just a handful of the ads that were blanketed across social media during and after the referendum campaign. Vote Leave had found their niche and they were hitting voters hard with the same lines over and over, digitally and on TV and radio. Cummings had realized there was…
Category: UK
How Dark Ads On Facebook Undermine Democracy: Part 1
It used to be that how you voted depended very much on your class or where you were born or grew up. But in recent years, people have been, as Alexander Nix then CEO of Cambridge Analytica, puts it, ‘buoyed by the availability of information and a plethora of options available on the…
Chatter #116 – Emma Knaggs on Why We Need To Reform Our Electoral System
Emma Knaggs, the grassroots leader at Make Votes Matter was my guest on today’s show. Make Votes Matter are a single issue campaign for the reform of the UK voting system into a more proportional and representative one. They are a cross party group working to get more and more MPs on board…
Chatter #115 – Oli Dugmore on Memes, Journalism, and the Influence of Social Media on Politics
Oli Dugmore, head of News and Politics at Joe Politics, was my guest on today’s show. In this conversation we went deep on the power of the meme, the GameStop saga, and the power of social media to influence politics. We also covered a number of issues that I cover in my book,…
Chatter #112 – Richard Collett-White on Air Pollution, Clean Air Zones, and Government Lobbying
Richard Collett-White from DeSmog UK was my guest on today’s show. I wanted to get Richard on to chat about his article entitled, Lobby Groups Backed by Big Brands Resisting Clean Air Measures Across the UK. In the article he explores the different lobby groups who have been resisting low emissions zones in…
The Left Forgot To Care
Without a doubt, of the strangest occurrences of the past year has been the left’s failure to care about the damages of the lockdowns. I had always believed that whilst occasionally misguided or over-zealous, most people believed in the ideas of the left because they genuinely cared about people. Yet, throughout 2020 I…
