Among yesterday’s front pages was a data visualisation which, at first glance, was one of the most effective I’ve ever seen: the Independent had made an infographic showing yesterday’s £6bn budget cuts in context - as a fraction of a debt mountain.
Then I looked closer - and something’s very, very wrong.
Can you tell what it […]
BBC Saturday night TV - 1 vs 100 - offered a worrying insight into the level of political apathy in the UK. Asked what cabinet position Jacqui Smith became the first woman to hold last year, 30 out of 100 people were unable to select “home secretary” from a list of 3 choices. Ouch.
What the hell is Jacqui Smith doing as Home Secretary? Not content with letting the country know she didn’t feel safe walking the streets at night - and that “people didn’t really do that kind of thing”, Dizzy reports she said on yesterday’s ‘Today’ programme that it’s Government advice not to walk alone after midnight. Good grief. For a Labour - once the party of the working classes - Home Secretary to be so utterly out of touch is offensive to the electorate
