‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them . . . Stick to Facts, [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Media, blogging
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Tagged 419 in the past 10 years, A third of all UK MPs employ members of their close family, Edelman Trust Barometer, Editorial Intelligence, Facebook, Facts, Gordon Brown, More than 50 employees of the state-owned British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) earn more than the UK Prime Minister, only 28% of Uk trust the media, P+G, Pringles, Reuters Institute, The CEO of BT may receive a £680K bonus despite his company reporting losses of £134 million, The number of women giving birth over the age of 40 has more than doubled to 26
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Perversely, Web 2.0 has become synonymous with an American mythology of freedom. But information technology works best in small well-organised political units with high levels of social protection. So there is every reason to believe that the net works best with another notion of freedom – the security of knowing that failure will not have [...]
But for how long? On 19 May, the Tory motion to freeze any increase in the BBC licence fee was defeated by 334 to 150 votes in the House of Commons. The compulsory tax of £11.62 per month on every household with a TV or radio, enforced by highly democratic ‘we know where you live’ [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in British identity, Media, Political spin, Politics, consumers
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Tagged Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan, Barack Obama, BBC, BBC Licence fee increase, British Broadcast Corpration, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, Dodgy dosier, Dr David Kelly, Gavyn davies, Graham Norton, Greg Dyke, Jeremy paxman, John birt, jonathan Ross, Mark Thompson, Neo-Stalinist Birtism, Pravda, public service broadcating, Radio 4, state-subsidised media, Tory motion to freeze BBC licence fee increase defeated, Weapons of Mass Destruction Dossier
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Hold the front page – on second thoughts, don’t bother. There won’t be one to hold much longer. That bloody web thingy has eaten our journalists. Everything we hold dear – the right to be told what to think by poker-arsed blowhards in the pay of Illuminati kingmakers, fed and watered by PR lizards in [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Celebrity, Media, blogging, cloud computing, consumers, internet
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Tagged bloggers, by John J Kelly, crisis in world press media, David Chase, decline of print media, Decline of the paid-for press, Editorial Intelligence, professional hacks face a long period of silent contemplation unless someone works out a way to 'monetise' online news and comment., Reuters Institute of Journalism, Senate Committee hearing on the decline of news media, The Wire, ThusMagazine on blogging, What's Happening to our News?
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April 14, 2009 – 12:30 pm
In no particular order, and with no special weighting, here are a few facts gleaned from the media with help from friends of Thus at Ten. Please feel free to send in your own facts. We need them in this era of spin and errant fantasy: 68% of Britons believe that MP’s salaries are ‘too [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Policy, Politics, Social studies, Sociology, UK politics, consumerism, consumers, retail
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Tagged 000 UK council employees paid six figure salaries, 100, 100000 council workers paid six-figure salaries, 300000 NHS workers are obese, 42% of Brits think MPs abuse the system, 68% of Britons believe that MP’s salaries are too generous, 68% of Brits believe MPs are overpaid, 800000 UK more people are fearful, Alistair Darling, Fred Goodwin, post office, RBS, RBS Fred Goodwin spent £100000 per month on chauffeurs, Ten, UK deficit 2.7% more than forecast, Uk government spends £400 milliom pa on advertising, UK post Office spends £1 million on rubber bands, UK Post office spends £1 million PA on elastic bands
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January 5, 2009 – 11:54 am
Leicester is now officially one of the most diverse towns in the UK, forecast to be the first to have a majority non-white population by 2011. Good news for everyone, argues John Keyes. My memories of being brought up in Leicester are in most ways fairly typical of anybody of my age and class. Regiments of [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Asia, British identity, Ethnography, India, Politics, Sociology, citizens' rights, consumers, multiculturalism, retail
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Tagged East Asians, Goan, goans, Immigration, Irish, Leicester, multiculturalism, Pakistan, South Asians, UK, You could do a lot worse than Leicester
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December 9, 2008 – 2:14 am
. . . but everyone says the party started after I left. By John J. Kelly Wordsworth famously observed that poetry takes its origin from ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ Art is emotion harnessed to artifice. The artist gives the impression of spontaneity. The work aims to evoke powerful emotions, but it is a representation of idealised [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Business, Celebrity, Reviews, Visual Arts
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Tagged Adam Dant, Alison Jackson, Anthony Hayden-Guest, art, contemporary art, Crunch: Art in a New Era, Damian Hirst, Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn, Globe, Hay Art Festival, Hay on Wye, Institute of Art and Ideas, John J Kelly, Patrick Hughes, T1+2 Gallery, Wolfe Lenkiewicz Gavin turk, YBA, Young British Artists
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December 8, 2008 – 4:08 pm
By Julia Margo, Demos One of the themes to emerge from debates last week about the Karen Matthews/Baby P/shocking state of social services scandals was the ongoing saga of Britain’s teenage birth rate, or more precisely the so-called benefit claiming class of teenage single mothers who suck up state resources and services, do not work, [...]
By JuliaMargo
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Also posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Social studies, Sociology, UK politics, citizens' rights
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Tagged benefits, james purnell, Karen Matthews, social policy, social services, society, Sure Start, teenage mothers, teenage parents
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December 4, 2008 – 2:35 pm
In political circles we talk about the Problem of our Binge Drinking Culture as if it is something that can be solved with the right intervention or piece of legislation. By Julia Margo, Demos Much recent research has explored the causes of youth binge drinking. Work at Sheffield University has suggested that “cheap alcohol is [...]
It's official! Parasite blogging bastards have killed print journalism
Hold the front page – on second thoughts, don’t bother. There won’t be one to hold much longer. That bloody web thingy has eaten our journalists. Everything we hold dear – the right to be told what to think by poker-arsed blowhards in the pay of Illuminati kingmakers, fed and watered by PR lizards in [...]