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Clive Power: September 2011
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A political party eats itself not when arguing, but when it isn’t fed. Ed Miliband and Justine Thornton, Labour Conference, 2011. With three years or less until it again has chance of power, you would have thought that Labour would be engaged at its present conference in some debate about where it wants to go. And you may also expect that it would be seeking some insight into why it came off the road. The conference watchwords have been ‘ anecdotes,. The theatre of dullness. On Monday, the delegate from ...
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Clive Power: Labour Conference sketch
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A political party eats itself not when arguing, but when it isn’t fed. Ed Miliband and Justine Thornton, Labour Conference, 2011. With three years or less until it again has chance of power, you would have thought that Labour would be engaged at its present conference in some debate about where it wants to go. And you may also expect that it would be seeking some insight into why it came off the road. The conference watchwords have been ‘ anecdotes,. The theatre of dullness. On Monday, the delegate from ...
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Clive Power: Reporting the Tottenham riot - how Twitter won
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Reporting the Tottenham riot - how Twitter won. In its reporting of the Tottenham riot, T. Witter, at its best, was faster, more accurate and went places the traditional media didn't. The news reporting of the Tottenham and Wood Green disturbances (6/7 August 2011) shows how digital media can lap its more traditional rivals in its coverage of some fast-evolving news events. Occasionally , to be the only providers of front-line coverage. Police cars on fire. How many of those would be public? Messaging vi...
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Clive Power: March 2012
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Daggers - on the pitch and on the terraces. Dagenham and Redbridge FC 1 – Bradford City FC 0. Saturday 3 March 2012. Travelling through Dagenham it's no longer possible to orientate by the prominent pubs that used to punctuate the repeating pattern of uniform housing. The pubs are gone. Now it's only passing the shops stuck to the stations that gives you a sense of movement. At the Daggers' ground, Don Autos and Boston Garage Equipment both have ads. Diamond Cars, a minicab firm, sponsored this match...
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Clive Power: Harriet Sergeant's Spectator front-cover article “These rioters are Tony Blair's children” is riven with inaccurate statistics and ill-founded claims
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Harriet Sergeant's Spectator front-cover article “These rioters are Tony Blair's children” is riven with inaccurate statistics and ill-founded claims. When facts are fiction, conclusions drawn from them are cant. These rioters are Tony Blair's children -. Spectator magazine - child unfriendly. And that “unless we understand the causes of this anarchy and the role that government has played, how can we put it right? Looking at her claims in detail (in the order that they appear). That “White working...
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Clive Power: Daggers - on the pitch and on the terraces
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Daggers - on the pitch and on the terraces. Dagenham and Redbridge FC 1 – Bradford City FC 0. Saturday 3 March 2012. Travelling through Dagenham it's no longer possible to orientate by the prominent pubs that used to punctuate the repeating pattern of uniform housing. The pubs are gone. Now it's only passing the shops stuck to the stations that gives you a sense of movement. At the Daggers' ground, Don Autos and Boston Garage Equipment both have ads. Diamond Cars, a minicab firm, sponsored this match...
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Clive Power: August 2011
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Out of the range - a Cowboy Noir round-up. Set in Southwest USA, 'Cowboy Noir' cinema shows that smalltown or wide open settings can be as close as crowded cities. Watching Kill Me Again. John Dahl, 1989) once more, I was reminded how much I like a certain group of films. These films appear to be a genre, but it had escaped me if anyone had identified them as such. I was going to call them 'Cactus Noir' but a little digging meant I found out they have already have a name – Cowboy Noir. Right from the get...
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Clive Power: Out of the range - a Cowboy Noir round-up
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Out of the range - a Cowboy Noir round-up. Set in Southwest USA, 'Cowboy Noir' cinema shows that smalltown or wide open settings can be as close as crowded cities. Watching Kill Me Again. John Dahl, 1989) once more, I was reminded how much I like a certain group of films. These films appear to be a genre, but it had escaped me if anyone had identified them as such. I was going to call them 'Cactus Noir' but a little digging meant I found out they have already have a name – Cowboy Noir. Right from the get...
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