Showing posts with label campaigns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaigns. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Silicon Snake Oil (or how data analytics didn't really win it for anyone)

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'Twas ever thus.... Cambridge Analytica is not the first political technology vendor to made big, unproven claims about its abilities...
Friday, 22 July 2016

Why Remain lost (redux)

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**** Can I start firstly by saying this is a marketing view not a political one (although inevitably there'll be some politics). And sec...
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Sunday, 3 July 2016

Why 'Stronger In' lost - the ad man's tale

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**** In a close political contest and especially one conducted across the whole nation, campaign tactics and execution matter. Which makes ...
Tuesday, 21 June 2016

The two referendum campaigns.

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**** I got a call from the woman who runs Denholme Elders, a support group for older people in this village perched on top of the South Pe...
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Sunday, 25 October 2015

Divestment doesn't work (but then we knew that)

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**** The economists Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk found that sin stocks outperform other stocks by 2.5 per cent per year. This has e...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Campaign hustings and the hierarchy of equalities

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**** Back in 2001 I stood for parliament in the lovely constituency of Keighley and Ilkley. I didn't win but then not many Conservativ...
Friday, 18 April 2014

On the marketing of politics...

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In the 1950s, with the expansion of television into every household, mass marketing was born. Clever blokes at companies making what becam...
Thursday, 10 January 2013

More on the crass stupidity of Transition Towns - the case of Totnes

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**** Some folk from Totnes aren't too happy at the way in which a few well organised green extremists have captured the Town Council a...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Crying foul at supermarkets won't save the High Street. Getting the offer right just might...

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Skipton High Street - success in a small town with three supermarkets In an article containing a vaguely linked set of slightly le...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

"International evidence proves..." ....that you're probably making it up!

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**** How often do we here this or one of its variants: "European research shows..." or "Evidence from Australia indicates.....
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Friday, 13 April 2012

Sorry Ed but you didn't meet the "voters of Bradford West"...

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**** It was a carefully selected audience designed by Labour Party hacks to give you a platform: Mr Miliband told the invited audience of...
Monday, 26 September 2011

Charity isn't independent so long as it takes the government's cash...

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**** It may be the effect of opposition but Labour folk are keen to see the "third sector" distance itself from government. Here...
Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Ah memories....

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"Tory scum" echoes the (ever so slightly posh) voice behind the presenter. "Tory scum" Tears sprang to my eyes at the me...
Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Councillor Cooke's draft General Election itinerary

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*** I’ ve been told there’s an election on and have decided – in the interests of research (and getting them elected) – to spend a little t...