Or, some things are too awful to talk about
Published at 6:12 pm on October 2nd, 2020
Filed under: Political, Feeling Meh.
Very long-term readers, or people who have gone delving around in the archives, might be aware that back when this site started, I used to talk about politics on a reasonably regular basis. Indeed, if you look in the menus (either down below or over on the right), you can see there’s a whole category for it. Since the restart, though, there really hasn’t been anything political that I have wanted to write about, or thought it worth writing about at all.
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Keyword noise: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, David Cameron, pandemic, apathy, authoritarianism, bad news, Tories, Conservatives, Prime Minister, prophecy, xenophobia.
In which we reveal that there really are hundreds of government helplines that nobody ever phones - but cutting them won't actually have any effect
Published at 8:05 pm on May 24th, 2010
Filed under: Political.
Today’s big news story: the government has started on its grand crusade to save money and thereby rescue the nation. Whether it will work remains to be seen, of course. I was intrigued, though, by one assertion which I heard on the news this morning: the government will save money by cutting back on call centres and helplines, because there are, apparently, many many government helplines which have barely even received a single call.*
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Keyword noise: advertising, call centre, Conservatives, George Osborne, government, helplines, marketing, spending cuts.
In which Boris Johnson might help perpetuate a stereotype
Published at 11:41 am on January 16th, 2006
Filed under: Political.
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