Tag Archives: Blogging
Chugging, comments and blogging
It’s occurred to me that I never returned to the comments I removed from the blog during the chugging episode, despite promising that I would either restore them or explain why I removed them. In fact, I made the decision fairly soon after I removed them that they would not be returning. This was after [...]
How fate mocks my arrogance
Yesterday I opted out of Iain Dale’s blogging poll. The poll, which he runs every year, produces various top 10 style lists – all of which come with a button that you can use on your blog to advertise your success and link back to his Total Politics site. I reckon I was in with [...]
Tom Watson, buses and digital engagement
Because of my blogging, Twittering and dabbling in other things digital-engagement I seem to have fallen in with a crowd who are passionate about the power of social media to change the world. Sadly, I am a cynic, a pessimist who recognises that for all its power, it’s limited. Limited by the people who use [...]
Using my blog to report back…
One of the suggestions when I asked for ideas for the blog last week (and I’m still looking for ideas or suggestions, feel free to add a comment or email cllr@jamescousins.com) was a regular ‘report’. Of course, reports can take many formats, but I thought I’d give it a go. I’m going to trial this [...]
Does the Speaker’s resignation really matter?
As someone who could be called a political blogger I should have an opinion on it. Fact is, I don’t. Not much of one, anyway. But as a political blogger it is my right, if not my duty, to drag my tendentious non-opinions out for a few hundred words. And my opinion is that it [...]
