If you follow Labour politics, you’ll have read many appeals in recent months for a crackdown on abusive and bullying behaviour by Corbynite activists towards their moderate peers. Jeremy Corbyn stands accused of opening the doors of the Labour Party to teeming thousands of misogynistic “brocialists”, racist anti-Israel zealots and bullying “Trots”, who are terrorising […]
Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
To tackle abuse, we first have to accept that the Left receives it too
Aug 17th, 2016 by Robin Fith.Corbynistas are not the new Nasty Party
Nov 25th, 2015 by David Osland.Where I work, telling a middle manager to ‘fuck off’ would result in a summons from human resources pretty sharpish, with the full expectation of a resultant first written warning. And if the target of the Anglo-Saxon expletive happened to be black, the question of whether the incident had been racially motivated would at least […]
#JezWeCan: The Jeremy Corbyn social media campaign
Oct 8th, 2015 by Ben Sellers.Socialists don’t normally go in for miracles. Yet the way some people have reacted to the incredible success of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign, you’d think we’d witnessed some sort of supernatural event. How on earth did Jeremy go from rank outsider in June to a landslide winner just three months later in September? Of course, […]
Of #Milifandom – Who’da thought it?
Apr 25th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.It’s my party and I’ll be late if I want to. News of the unexpected #Milifandom around comrade number one, Ed “Milibae” are chip wrappers humming in the nation’s bins alongside tea bags and gravy-speckled LibDem leaflets, but a conspiracy hatched by campaigning and a dud internet connection has blocked yours truly from commenting. Until […]
Learning from Stephen Sutton
May 16th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Practically everyone plugged in to some form of social media will have heard of Stephen Sutton, the 19 year old teenage cancer fundraiser who died earlier today. It’s very sad news for his family and friends, and for everyone who followed his story. His life was short, but he set an exemplary example of altruism. It […]
Why social media savviness won’t bring political engagement
Apr 29th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Politics is changing, suggests Douglas Carswell. The “internet thingy” means the barriers to political entry, or, at least, political comment are lower than they’ve ever been. Westminster, hidebound and wrapped in its own importance is threatened with extinction unless it moves with the times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is hardly fresh stuff. It would have […]