Tristan Stewart-Robertson
Read biographyTristan Stewart-Robertson is a journalist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He writes for Firstpost on the media, internet and serves as an objective, moral compass from the outside.
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Team Anna: Anti-corruption, Pro-secrecy?
Once you start campaigning on principles, you may find it's difficult to escape their gravitational pull. Team Anna has discovered that very problem with what I'm going to call 'principled physics' in the whole controversy surrounding the expulsion of core team member Shameem Kazmi for "allegedly secretly recording the proceedings of #Arvind Kejriwal #ConnectTheDots #Corruption #News of the World #Principled Physics #Team Anna #Transparency
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It’s not about journalism or Murdoch, it’s partisan politics
There are a great many problems with the media - but lack of comment isn't one of them. Everywhere you go, there's endless comment, and I freely admit I add to it. But at heart, I am a reporter and all good reporters want to report truth. Get too blinded by tinted #James Murdoch #MediaCrit #News Corporation #News of the World #Rupert Murdoch
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Should UK ban Modi when he’s not been convicted here?
The various international agreements and conventions stipulating that there should be a free movement of people around the world doesn't actually include entry to other countries. Nation states everywhere are enjoying the privilege of banning people from entering - it's a way of politically marking disapproval. The UK today introduced a new #free travel #HowThisWorks #Human Rights #Narendra Modi #United Kingdom #United States #Visa
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Rupert Murdoch: Your doting granddad or evil mad genius?
Watching the 81-year-old media emperor give evidence to the never ending Leveson inquiry into media practices over the past 30 years, it's hard to figure out what Murdoch is. Is he your doting granddad who can't remember what he did last week or who he met with at that dinner party #Gordon Brown #James Murdoch #News of the World #Rupert Murdoch #TheLongView
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The states that don’t matter in America
The US states of Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, all held their presidential primaries on Tuesday. Some of those states aren't as meaningless as others. Every political pundit is already in a frenzy of counting numbers for incumbent President Obama, or presumed Republican candidate Mitt Romney. As everyone discovered #Barack Obama #HowThisWorks #Mitt Romney #Presidency of the United States
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Breivik’s truth: Is the fear of multiculturalism the enemy within us?
The ONLY thing you can say is factually accurate from Breivik's positions in his trial for killing 77 people, most of them children, is a point about multiculturalism: people in many countries have condemned it. Breivik named Sarkozy, Merkel and Cameron during his testimony, and certainly Cameron and others in the #Breivik #Canada #Europe #Immigration #Le Pen #Multiculturalism #OnOurMind
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Norway massacre: Trial of a fanatic who killed 77 people
The trial of a fanatic who killed 77 people in Norway last summer has started in Oslo. Anders Behring Breivik, 33, rejected the authority of the court, but has pleaded not guilty and claimed he acted in self-defence. He will not apologise for his actions. This 10-week trial will mainly #Anders Behring Breivik #HowThisWorks #trial
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Santorum quits: What kind of America will Obama or Romney be left with?
With Rick Santorum bowing out of the race to be the Republican candidate for the White House in 2012, Mitt Romney is essentially guaranteed the title. Santorum cited, as a factor, the illness of his daughter Bella, taken to hospital on Friday with pneumonia. The three-year-old girl also has a life-threatening #America #Mitt Romney #Obama #Rick Santorum #WhatNext #White House
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Katju wants more Mike Wallaces for a world that doesn’t exist
A GIANT of American, perhaps global, television news has died. Mike Wallace was a founder of the news magazine programme, 60 Minutes, dominating the journalism world with his colleagues for decades. For those out of reach of its host channel, CBS, they saw him immortalised in the 1999 film, The #60 Minutes #Google Inc. #Markandey Katju #Mike Wallace #OnOurMind #Television in the United States #Twitter Inc.
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Are Scotland’s politicians like pandas that can’t mate?
Scottish news gets weird fetishes sometimes, like this past week, waiting for two pandas to have sex. The animals, at Edinburgh Zoo, have had celebrity status since the marathon TV coverage of their arrival at the city's airport from China last year. Since then, all talk has been about when Sweetie and #PoliticalPlay #Referendum #Scotland #Scottish National Party