Elections and stories
This blog is mostly about the practical ‘how’ of communication, but that’s in service to making a better world and sometimes I talk about issues and change too, especially when it’s...
View ArticleSocial change is a personal development issue
Imagine that the world can be different. Some people will find that easy. Some will find it harder. Some will find it alarming and retreat from it, dropping word grenades to discourage pursuit. We are...
View ArticleThe election 2015 communication circus
One of the main criticisms levelled at politicians has been that they are ‘out of touch’. The traditional parties have certainly borne that out in their campaigning and communication for this year’s...
View ArticleElection 2015: voting for the upward path
No need to be confused any longer! Now you will understand exactly how you should vote. ;) Post may contain satire and bias. I also talk about trends and likely results. It’s UK election week on the...
View ArticleReferendum: two fears in a boat
Right now, the EU referendum campaign has been raging for a while here in the UK. It’s been full of the language of fear, anger and confusion. And we see that across the rest of our politics, and in...
View ArticleBrexit: pain won
People were suffering. From austerity, hardship, erosion of their mental health, state-sponsored discrimination, and the uncertainty of a changing world. The government wasn’t listening. The...
View ArticlePolitics wandering in the story desert
I’ve become more aware of story in the last few years. And it’s been ever clearer that recent UK national politics is all about story. The Conservatives constructed a mythology and hammered it in with...
View ArticleThe main cause of climate change is politicians
Yes, yes, I know that greenhouse gases come from agriculture and transport and energy generation and deforestation. But take a different angle on the cause and effect of the situation we’re in. How...
View ArticleThe two towers – Trump vs fellowship
OK, let’s get this out of the way. I hate that Trump won. My weary core sighs that a walking embodiment of ignorance, denial, delusion and prejudice will be the steward of that grand, fractured...
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