Welcome back James! Now let’s all gather round the youtube and watch a compilation of Communist-era Hungarian secret police training films.

Madsen Pirie's latest video is about mass production, but I want to talk about mass distribution. The first of his series, released just over a week ago, has, according to YouTube, been viewed 9,493 times. That seems quite encouraging, especially when you look at the viewing figures of some of Britain's public-service television. According to The Telegraph last year: "S4C, which gets mor...

Believe it or not, the most popular video on YouTube this week, with over 40 million hits and climbing. ( hat tip, Carl)

Tom Harris lost his job as Labour's ‘Twitter tsar’ today after uploading this Salmond-themed Downfall video onto YouTube. A pity it's not even one of the funnier ones: And here is, erm, Ed Miliband responding to the news:

Courtesy of Peter Kellner over on YouTube, where he tells the story of the last Labour leader to be deposed by his own MPs - John Clynes, of course, back in 1922 and just after he'd led Labour to one of its best electoral performances ever at that time. Kellner's full article also contains some interesting analysis of Ed Miliband's polling figures - analysis which, from a seasoned psephologist lik...

By Noah Tucker, from 21st Century Socialism One of the most insightful analyses- and certainly the most hilarious- of the emerging power relationships in the European Union can be found in a three minute video which recently appeared on YouTube. It is a spoof of ‘Dinner for One’, the English comedy sketch which is almost

Ah, the disappointment and confusion...too funny!

Which UK politicians' videos are most popular on YouTube?

A reminder of earlier dramas in London and surrounding parts this year: A court on Wednesday sentenced a rioter who was caught on video pulling a man off his scooter during the summer riots to almost six years in jail. The footage of Ryan Kitchenside, 18, chasing his victim before yanking him to the ground during the August riots in Croydon, appeared on video-sharing website Youtube, l...

I don’t know what the protocol is about embedding produced rather than found material from youtube, so I’ll just link to this video of events in Wukan, produced and edited by Charles Custer of ChinaGeeks from material circulating around the...