Gordon Brown

The media hype and crushing reality of UK politics

UK Election Campaign: The Movie (secret casting notes)

Exactly one week until the good people of England, Scotland and Wales go to the polls, our film got a sudden boost  of publicity yesterday when – stranger than fiction – the current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a woman pensioner who confronted him “a bigot”.  * 

Here is how the plans for the film’s main characters, due to be released next Thursday May 6th (UK election day), are shaping up. 

Character synopsis 

Jim Carrey plays Gordon Brown ... read more »

Brown, Cameron, Clegg, and the art of Participation in political ...

If you are an American reading this, then please understand that in the UK yesterday we have just had our first ever televised political leaders debate in an election campaign, broadcast on ITV in a 90 minutes live transmission.  As you know, you’ve had yours since 1960 with the Kennedy/Nixon debate – we are only 50 years behind you!  There’s no turning back now……... read more »

Open letter to the Prime Minister regarding Community Radio in the UK

I recently c0-signed this letter initiated by Steve Buckley, President of AMARC and Director of Sheffield Live fm.  See the letter in it’s original context at http://www.sheffieldlive.org/lettertogordonbrown/

 

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