Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Like medieval citadels, great cities fuel social disharmony and division

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I've talked before about how the big cities that, at present, drive economic growth, act to exclude people. Or, to put it another way, p...
Wednesday, 7 November 2018

A comment on the US Midterm elections (and why the media and the Democrats risk getting it wrong)

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I'm guessing most of you aren't geeky or obsessed enough to have stayed up most of last night watching the US midterm election resul...
Saturday, 3 February 2018

Trump and Anti-trump - how different are they?

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From Joel Kotkin: To be sure there is much to lament about Trump, and his European counterparts, but it’s ironic that many of those who cha...
Saturday, 25 November 2017

Taylor Swift and The Guardian: It's clickbait but reminds us of the left's nastiness

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I appreciate that today's newspapers need clickbait to get enough visitors to satisfy their advertisers. And I also understand that The ...
Friday, 17 November 2017

On safari with the poverty tourists

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Since the Brexit vote in Britain and Trump's election in the USA, there has developed a genre of journalism that involves the writer de...
Tuesday, 7 November 2017

More on how Big Data didn't win it

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Buzzfeed published an article back in February about the 'Big Data' thing and Donald Trump's campaign: Several people who work...
Monday, 30 October 2017

Big Data didn't win it (my opening remarks from Battle of Ideas debate)

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I guess I represent all the axes of evil on this subject – I’m a qualified Conservative Party Agent, a professional marketer specialising i...
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Saturday, 1 July 2017

It's not just the economy, stupid - a lesson from Alinsky for conservatives

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Politics is about the economy. This truth has, for most of recent history, dominated the manner in which elections have been fought and to ...
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Thursday, 16 February 2017

Snow on their boots...thoughts on the Great Russian Hacker Conspiracy

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"There is being circulated everywhere a story that an immense force of Russian soldiers – a little short of a million, it is said...
Friday, 10 February 2017

The Inner City - urbanism's dirty secret

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From Chicago through Dublin, Glasgow and Manchester to Lyons, Barcelona and Vienna, the Inner City is urbanists' dirty secret. We've...
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Sunday, 5 February 2017

Why should I believe the left are protecting a liberal society they don't believe in?

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I'm probably not alone in being slightly taken aback by the extent to which the election of Donald Trump as US President has brought fo...
Monday, 30 January 2017

When is not a ban a ban? Trump and the Muslims

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During the presidential election campaign Trump was clear he wanted to 'ban' Muslims from coming to America. So it should not be a ...
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Thursday, 17 November 2016

Fake news, filter bubbles and the failure of the BBC

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A couple of days ago The Times splashed its front page with a story about a leaked 'Cabinet Office Memo'. You all saw the story, e...
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Sunday, 13 November 2016

A little bit of country life - political lessons from the US elections

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The election of Donald Trump has led to a veritable stampede of chicken lickens rushing wildly about crying that the sky has fallen in....
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