Posted on May 1, 2009 by Paul Evans
Do we really want politicians to be public paragons of virtue?
A good deal of what I read tends to work on the assumption that we do. Take this, for example:
“As technology evolves, the same public information laws create novel and in some cases previously unimaginable levels of transparency. In many cases, particularly those related to [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Paul Evans
The Guardian’s Catherine Bennett is right to be worried about the impact that a climate of hypercommentary on personal tics will have on politics:
“With the internet demanding ever-improving performance skills from its principal actors, Westminster can only become less hospitable to people who look more like Menzies Campbell than Ant and Dec. Unless, that is, [...]
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