Archive for simon jenkins
Meet the Lib Dem bloggers: Daisy Benson
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Daisy Benson who blogs at www.daisyscampaigndiary.blogspot.com. 1. What’s your formative political memory? The morning after the 1992 election – remembering my parents’ disappointment that Labour hadn’t won [...]
Crime maps: Simon Jenkins has persuaded me
I’ve been a bit ambivalent about the idea of crime maps, both because of the many categories of crime missing completely from them and also because the provision of a map in itself risks being seen as the final step rather than a preliminary step in making government more accountable and responsive to the public. [...]
This is why the Editors’ Code of Practice needs reforming
It’s a small, but telling example.
The Evening Standard ran a piece from Simon Jenkins, which included a bit of myth-recycling about what the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health had said about people clearing snow from outside their property.
There were two problems.
First, either Simon Jenkins or a sub-ed dropped the word “probably” making the quote [...]
