David Coveney

A personal blog transitioning into an exploration of the intersection of design, technology and ethics

Category: Politics

  • The EU are bullying the UK

    The EU are bullying the UK

    A short screenplay, by me. It’s a Monday morning at a small train station on a mainline. It’s bustling as business travellers head to London for their week’s business. The air is cool, with people blowing little clouds of steam as they head into the station from their taxis and cars. Mr Hock, a late-middle…

  • Why political parties lose support by winning.

    Why political parties lose support by winning.

    People do like to look back angrily, don’t they? Yet many a time, their anger today doesn’t reflect how they really felt back then. If you look at the Iraq War, and the UK’s involvement in it, most people supported the action. For sure, an awful lot of people today don’t think it was right…

  • Our office cleaner doesn’t vote. I think I know why.

    Our office cleaner doesn’t vote. I think I know why.

    Ever noticed that there’s a group of people who don’t vote? Good people, by and large… but they don’t vote. Eventually, I think I worked it out.