Update: May 2018
Five years, a lot has changed! In the world, Britain has left the EU, and Donald Trump has been elected to the White House...and that was only 2016! Syria has further collapsed, sparking a refugee crisis in 2014-5. The rise of Islamic State saw the UK join a US led coalition in defeating the group. Terror attacks took place in London and Manchester. Scotland had a referendum...it stayed. The UK had two general elections. The first, in 2015, saw the Tories take a surprise majority. The second, saw a strong Jeremy Corbyn performance cut the Tory majority. Theresa May now runs a minority government. The £1 billion offer to the DUP of course helped with this. Leicester City won the Premier League, whilst Germany won the World Cup. The climate change debate continues, especially since the US left the Paris Agreement.
So you, the anonymous reader, may be wondering why I am writing this. All the above is a common 'newsfact', wretched into the consciousness of even uniformed readers in the West. I thought I might stop spouting off the news of the last five years, as I now realise this could get rather tedious! A lot has happened, and although it might be an interesting memory test to see how much I can remember, I do not think this would interest the humble reader. What does interest one these days anyway? So many free news sources and endless social media comment, where does a blog fit into the mix. We live in a strange world where readers are now 'eyeballs', and clicks are king. Some news sites have responded by spouting a retro look, in sync with 'old newspaper style'. The (relatively) new Guardian site is an interesting example of this. Before, it was a typical blue and white, modern but minimalist site. The design was very good, but nothing spectacular. Now, it has made a return to black-and white bold newspaper font headlines. The colour schemes are still in, but their impact is lessened. This perhaps marks an effort to merge two aspects: print and online. It also is a sign that consumers are tired of the over excitability, but poor quality, of web content. In this era of 'fake news', using the newspaper roots of a website gives the page an authentic quality. Trust is now at a premium, and sites must reflect that.
What can this site offer in these complex times? Not much to be honest, but thanks for reading!
I joke, but I'll do my best to analyse the issues of the day. Honestly, all this is a cynical career move. I'm at university, doing Politics now. So please ignore my previous posts, they are from an era of youthful immaturity. Although reading them back, I feel like they are more intelligent than anything I could come up with now! Funny that, I always expected a nice clean upward trajectory in all aspects of life. But that's not reality, life is more complicated. This blog is basically for my career, which remains something vaguely journalistic. Lots of uncertainty, which is a story in itself, especially in this time of heightened graduate economic pressure. So at least I'm being honest with the reader. Even you are a high tech bot. If so 01110110100011001100101010110101100101101.
I apologise, that was awful. Ok so enjoy the cutting edge analysis/another cliche/another cliche...wait...is everything a cliche now? Whhhhaaaaaaaaaat. Mic drop.
The End.
So you, the anonymous reader, may be wondering why I am writing this. All the above is a common 'newsfact', wretched into the consciousness of even uniformed readers in the West. I thought I might stop spouting off the news of the last five years, as I now realise this could get rather tedious! A lot has happened, and although it might be an interesting memory test to see how much I can remember, I do not think this would interest the humble reader. What does interest one these days anyway? So many free news sources and endless social media comment, where does a blog fit into the mix. We live in a strange world where readers are now 'eyeballs', and clicks are king. Some news sites have responded by spouting a retro look, in sync with 'old newspaper style'. The (relatively) new Guardian site is an interesting example of this. Before, it was a typical blue and white, modern but minimalist site. The design was very good, but nothing spectacular. Now, it has made a return to black-and white bold newspaper font headlines. The colour schemes are still in, but their impact is lessened. This perhaps marks an effort to merge two aspects: print and online. It also is a sign that consumers are tired of the over excitability, but poor quality, of web content. In this era of 'fake news', using the newspaper roots of a website gives the page an authentic quality. Trust is now at a premium, and sites must reflect that.
What can this site offer in these complex times? Not much to be honest, but thanks for reading!
I joke, but I'll do my best to analyse the issues of the day. Honestly, all this is a cynical career move. I'm at university, doing Politics now. So please ignore my previous posts, they are from an era of youthful immaturity. Although reading them back, I feel like they are more intelligent than anything I could come up with now! Funny that, I always expected a nice clean upward trajectory in all aspects of life. But that's not reality, life is more complicated. This blog is basically for my career, which remains something vaguely journalistic. Lots of uncertainty, which is a story in itself, especially in this time of heightened graduate economic pressure. So at least I'm being honest with the reader. Even you are a high tech bot. If so 01110110100011001100101010110101100101101.
I apologise, that was awful. Ok so enjoy the cutting edge analysis/another cliche/another cliche...wait...is everything a cliche now? Whhhhaaaaaaaaaat. Mic drop.
The End.
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