Identifying heart-warming human interest stories boosts our councillors’ name recognition.
The Brady amendment is part of the developing story of a clash between leaders and backbenchers over Party management, culture and MPs’ status.
We wouldn’t want constraints on free speech imposed on the basis of opaque agreements between platforms and politicians.
We are seeing the rise of the outrider. These ‘non-party campaigns’ often spring up in and around elections – with the public in the dark about their funding.
But his new book conveys very well what is wrong with social media, and how it might be put right.
Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.
If politicians stopped pretending to an almost totalitarian infallibility, and encouraged the rest of us to show what we can do, the results would be better.
I’m haunted by how media propagation of tribalism in Rwanda helped to desensitise people – and was followed by genocide.
The right to it must be championed even when – no: especially when – remarks are made that we find reprehensible.
The more of us that come out of the closet – the political one – the more tolerant and reflective our culture will become.
The difficulties the Government has had with Apple and its contact tracing app demonstrates the need to break up power in big tech.
There is still time for the president to show leadership on this issue, but the window of opportunity is narrowing.
He entered Parliament as a man on a mission and is quite happy to ruffle some feathers along the way.
Here’s both what his team did and how it communicated – deploying the discipline of the second to boost the first.