It’s the Dunkirk spirit which gets us through… published here and here.
It is a busy time of year for political cartoonists and a lot of old rhetoric is about to get recycled. A commissioned drawing for the Local Government Association.
A commissioned illustration for Eurobusiness magazine.
Here is a simple and creative piece of thinking about interactive journalism. Hat tip to the Olympian newspaper which is based in Washington State on the north west coast of the US, I think.
Published here and below.
…most definitely gawn but not forgot…
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An amazing piece of technology which seems to have rather large implications for the way we use images in the digital world. I predict there will be plenty of reporting ethical issues to come with some of later features this video reveals too. A hat-tip to Shane Richmond at The Telegraph for a fine find.
A short nugget of information from Mr Chicken Yogurt which relates to the cartoon below. This image was drawn for No2id.
When you visit the link, you will discover a story from The Independent, about record-keeping and its problems. It is the simple observation that humans are not very good at keeping them. Then let yourself think about the scale of the task which the government is setting for itself in recording intimate details for all of us who live and move in and out of the UK. Remember too, the problems the government had when attempting to record a single simple fact, exactly who lived where, for the Community Charge (or Poll Tax.) Then see the record keeping disaster which is heading our way if the ID card project goes ahead. And bad records mean legal and administrative mistakes about you and me.
Tired of the bad weather and fancy a summer abroad? Published here and below
A new political magazine cover image. Of course, a lot of these things actually missed their targets…but it only took one.
