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If you live in Manchester, you cannot fail to have been swept away in recent weeks by the hot topic de jour of the day. Namely: Which one of them two fast food places in town that specialises in burritos does the best burrito? I speak, of course, of Barburrito and Pancho’s and will now [...]

Today’s CashGordon fiasco has got me thinking about the point of a social media campaign and reinforces the point that simply getting your brand or campaign mentioned on Twitter is not an end in itself. For Tories, the CashGordon strategy was based around creating something that would inflame people on Twitter, and then watching as [...]

I’ve just got back from Bolton, where Unite Against Fascism have organised a counter-protest to a demonstration by the English Defence League in the town centre. I’m making a film about someone on the UAF side, so I was there as an observer. It was my first time at a protest of this sort and [...]