My wife and I have just voted in today's general election at our local polling station. Nothing more now until the ballots are counted after 10pm this evening and the results start coming during the night. If you find yourself at a loose end any time today and tonight and land on this page, well, you can follow the election chit-chat on Twitter with this handy widget you see embedded here (RSS subscribers: if you don't see the tweets, head over here). <script … [Read more...] about The next party’s about to begin
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Diminishing care about politics
Yesterday's gaffe by Prime Minister Gordon Brown – he made disparaging private comments about a voter with whom he said publicly he’d had an enjoyable conversation, forgetting that his radio microphone was still live – is all over the mainstream media this morning, as you might expect. It’s also all over the social space especially Twitter. Here’s what comes up on a tweetcloud of the election hashtag #ukelection: My own view is that Gordon Brown’s behaviour was … [Read more...] about Diminishing care about politics