I’ve got a half-written post in the drafts folder on this subject – it’s not ready to see the light of day yet.
But looking at a post on the blog of Tom Harris MP about the need for political parties, I can’t resist recalling the late great Bernard Crick’s favourite Goebbells quote:
“Political parties exist to [...]
Posts on ‘February 10th, 2009’
Do we need political parties? (A prelude).
Universal Service Obligations
This is an important policy issue that I think we often forget when discussing how people can be engaged online in helping to form policy.
More on this in the not-too-distant I hope, but I’d be really interested to see how this plays out in the Digital Britain discussions.
Opinion v Knowledge
One of my favourite political bloggers, Shuggy, has a short post up here about opinion and it’s validity (or lack of). My own favourite variation on this is the view that ‘opinions are like a*seholes – everyone has one, but no-one really wants to hear them.’ (an aphorism that I can’t recall the source of [...]
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