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Mapping the Political Contours of Cyberspace

William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace”, for his 1982 short story Burning Chrome to create a “a narrative engine, and a territory in which the narrative could take place”. Twenty years on, cyberspace is world’s narrative engine: and an uncharted territory to which the world is still coming to terms.
Political, industrial, and civic leaders are [...]

By David Price | | Friday, 28 October 2011 at 3:20 pm

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Which way are the UK newspapers voting and why?

A quick overnight analysis of the general election results advocated by 17 leading UK newspapers – and the positive reasons they present for their choices:

…based on an initial reading of the editorial declarations made by: the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Sunday [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Thursday, 6 May 2010 at 2:20 am

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Visualizing the Third Leaders’ Debate

Building on last week’s map, The Independent is using Debategraph again to visualize the issues addressed during the third leaders’ debate tonight – and to examine the positions of the three prime ministerial candidates on the key questions facing the country in the run up to polling day.
You can follow the third debate live here [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Thursday, 29 April 2010 at 6:59 pm

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Visualizing the Second Leaders’s Debate

Following the remarkable shift in the polls after last week's debate, what fate awaits Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg as they confront each other in the second prime ministerial TV debate tonight?
The Independent will be using Debategraph this evening to map the flow of questions and answers during the live debate – and [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 6:15 pm

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Nuclear Politics: a defining moment?

Humanity’s struggle to contain the threat of nuclear weapons and to exploit nuclear energy safely is approaching a defining moment.
Demand for civil nuclear power has intensified in response to climate change concerns, promising new civil nuclear technologies are starting to emerge, and Presidents Obama and Medvedev have just reached a substantive arms control agreement. But [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Sunday, 28 March 2010 at 2:26 pm

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Copenhagen: What’s Happening?

The balance of probability, if the recent downbeat pronouncements from the UN are to be believed, is that the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month will end, like a Spike Milligan sketch, with the actors shuffling offstage, staring into the half-distance, mumbling "What are we going to do now? What are we [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 at 7:40 pm

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How to respond to Iran?

With the news breaking today that Iran has informed the IAEA that a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction, and President Obama warning that the plant represents a direct challenge to international non-proliferation and “deepens a growing concern that Iran is refusing to live up to these international responsibilities,” how should the international [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Friday, 25 September 2009 at 7:02 pm

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The Future of Newspapers

The global financial crisis has brought the structural weaknesses of the traditional newspaper business model to the fore as the industry seeks to respond to the rapidly changing competitive environment in the digital era.
A rich debate is developing in print and across the web about the implications of these changes for the newspaper industry, for [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Friday, 3 July 2009 at 9:13 pm

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Mapping the legal status of the war on Iraq

On 26 February 2003 in the build up the Iraq war, a group of 43 Australian legal experts published an article in the Sydney Morning Herald Coalition of the Willing? Make that War Criminals, arguing that the war would be illegal and that George Bush, John Howard, and Tony Blair would be war criminals.
Greg Hunt, the Liberal MP for Flinders [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Sunday, 29 March 2009 at 12:15 am

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Critical Thinking on Climate Change?

The Earth’s climate is a complex dynamic system about which we have much to learn: so too the climate of human opinion.
Both are layered with uncertainty: yet we are compelled to act; to decide with our knowledge and ignorance deeply entwined.
And, in the case of climate change the costs of poor decisions (in whatever direction) [...]

By David Price | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from Independent commentators - | Thursday, 12 March 2009 at 5:25 pm