I tweaked Krishnan Guru Murphy for this tweet: Just did Clegg. Asked him if he saw himself as Jake or Heath in the Brokeback Coalition – he couldn’t remember the detail of the film. I commented: Seriously, @krishgm, you asked Clegg if he was the top or bottom in his relationship with Cameron? Bravo. {slow …
Stonewall UK’s study of lesbian and gay representations in youth TV confirms that gay people are rarely explicitly present on screen and that positive lesbian identities are spectacularly absent. There are, though, a few assumptions and unanswered questions raised by that research which I want to draw out – not least because they suggest the …
BT’s leap into interactive marketing is spectacularly strange. We’re invited to vote on whether Jane is pregnant, or not. Why so strange? Is because we’re being clumsily directed to remotely inseminate a fictional character by popular decree? No, although that too is very strange. The strangeness lies in BT’s own story arc. The entire relationship …
Three election manifestos have been published this week, with varying discussion of arts policy. Some summaries, in order of arrival: 1. The Labour manifesto touches on the arts in two places: framing access to the arts as a part of a balanced primary and secondary education; and in the section headed ‘communities and creative Britain,’ …