Archive for category: Media

How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Louis Armstrong

How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Louis Armstrong

If the festive season is any indication, storytelling would seem to play an important part in our lives. In keeping with tradition, Christmas Day was, for many, a time for reflection on a mythical story of humankind. A story of outlandish characters and unlikely happenings. Of vice, virtue, struggle and […]

Ed Miliband and the Political Mainstream

Ed Miliband and the Political Mainstream

Ed Miliband wrote an article in the Guardian on Sunday in which he notices theexistence of the occupation of Saint Paul’s, and of ‘hundreds of similar demonstrations in cities across the world’. The piece is a masterclass in political positioning and it deserves a little close reading. He claims that […]

How the Occupy Movement has Shifted the Media Debate

How the Occupy Movement has Shifted the Media Debate

The sight of Adam Boulton comparing OccupyLSX protesters to Nazi occupiers in France during WW2 on Sky News this week was not just indicative of Boulton, but also demonstrates how progressively desperate and defensive those who wish to defend the status quo have become since the Occupy movement began (see […]