The hilarious incoherence of the AV/FPTP debate
The Alternative Vote lobby (including the IPPR) is arguing that the present First Past The Post system (FPTP) is based on the outmoded assumptions of 2-party politics,...
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Prince William to be King Arthur?
Here’s a fun, post-Royal-wedding thought. Is Prince William the future King Arthur? I’ve been told, no idea by whom now, that Prince...
Read this entry » Tweeters Kickarse of BNP
The BNP event planned for tomorrow (see my last post) has been cancelled by the venue owners, @MacDonaldHotels following a huge and super-rapid...
Read this entry » BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY IN FALKIRK
The British National Party is advertising an event in the Falkirk area scheduled for tomorrow It seems to be both a big social occasion and...
Read this entry » The New de facto Time-Limits on Prime Ministers
Conservative Home’s Tim Montgomerie writes here about the scope for George Osborne to follow David Cameron as Tory party leader. It’s...
Read this entry » Howard Davies, Seif Gaddafi. And the rest?
Sir Howard Davies, who’s just resigned as Director of the London School of Economics (LSE), is a classical blue-chip bloke. Largely...
Read this entry » Gaddafi’s Choice – Leave or Die
Gaddafi is such an icon, comedic and otherwise, and there’s been such rapproachment between him and the powerful nations in recent years,...
Read this entry » Charlie Sheen – The Guardian’s Crazy Guy
Check out this Guardian report. It’s hilarious. Charlie Sheen is the highest paid man on US telly in an age where US telly stars...
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Pirates and Protecting Personal Privacy
The Digital Economy All Party Group (DEAPPG) held a meeting on Wikileaks (hastily advertised below) to co-incide with the possible release of Julian Assange on 14...
Read this entry »â€˜Wikileaks’ Event at House of Commons, Tuesday, 14 December
The media’s reporting that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal against bail refusal will take place on Tuesday in London....
Read this entry »What’s the Meaning of Julian Assange? #assange
Today’s lead news in the UK is the arrest of Wikileaks (which is actually not a ‘wiki’ at all, ironically) founder Julian Assange. He’s...
Read this entry »#WIKILEAKS
There are three general lines of thought expressed around the Wikileaks saga. The first is condemnatory. Governments, led by the US, say Julian Assange and his colleagues...
Read this entry »Do they step up to the plate in carpet bowls?
I’m in Falkirk. So instead of Jools Holland on BBC2 I’ve got carpet bowls and trendy-looking presenters of un certain age (excuse my French) pretending...
Read this entry »Iraq. Why, for some, sorry is the hardest word.
Following Ed Miliband’s speech in Manchester this week, Labour’s official position is that the UK’s participation in the US-led invasion of Iraq...
Read this entry »The Rwandan Digital Economy #digitaldevelopment
I spent this morning in Kigale with Ignace Gatari, the phenomenally smart Rwandan ICT minister. Elsewhere, Gordon Brown (who recently joined the WWW Foundation)...
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