David Quinn published this entry on Wednesday 28 April, 2010 at 3:09 pm. It's been filed in the politics + web category . {3 Comments}
As a follower (and member) of Amnesty, I was perturbed to read this tweet from their official Twitter account this afternoon:
Gordon is right. She is a bigoted woman. Here is a tip Love, where have all the Eastern Europeans come from? How about Eastern Europe!
The tweet has since been deleted from the web but here’s [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 20 April, 2010 at 6:37 pm. It's been filed in the blogging + journalism + manchester + web category . {1 Comment}
There have been a couple of interesting developments on the local web publishing scene in recent days. Firstly, it looks as though Manchester Confidential’s paywall model has rather sheepishly fallen over after three months because boss Mark Garner finally realised some time after everyone else that it never had a hope of working.
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David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 13 April, 2010 at 4:02 pm. It's been filed in the manchester + radio category . {Comment}
Following my earlier post on the subject, radio DJ Steve Penk has this week received a justified bollocking from Ofcom over his decision to play the song “Jump” in reference to a woman threatening to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge over the M60. Unfortunately, they’ve not fined him or his radio station a [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 11 April, 2010 at 4:29 pm. It's been filed in the documentary + manchester + personal + politics category . {Comment}
I’m currently working on a film about the general election campaign in Salford. It struck me as a good idea for a documentary after Salford MP Hazel Blears got embroiled in the expenses scandal last year. The film isn’t really about that, though. It’s about how ordinary people respond to politicians and the candidates themselves, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 09 April, 2010 at 11:04 am. It's been filed in the manchester + politics + technology + web category . {Comment}
This table shows how MPs in Greater Manchester voted over the Digital Economy Bill. The only Manchester MP who voted against was Liberal Democrat John Leech, MP for Manchester Withington. Of the 28 MPs across the city region, more than half (17) didn’t actually bother to vote. Of those who voted, all the local Labour [...]