An observant friend sent me this innovative sign of our troubled times, photographed on the streets of Norwich. The media, government and police have virtually ensured that there will be trouble on the streets of London next week with threats of dire insurrection, but subtle irony, like that which is displayed here by the anonymous authors [...]
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Israel delivers a housewarming present to Obama – Armageddon
December 28, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Remember the PFLP? Well, they’re back, thanks to helicopter gunship diplomacy. By John J Kelly from sources in Gaza There is still time for Israel to pull back from the endgame, but we are being told that the wanton slaughter of the past two days has met with ‘widespread public approval on all sides [...]
Update – Turkey condemns Israeli airstrikes as Gaza death toll rises to 225
December 28, 2008 – 12:44 am
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country has been playing a key role in attempting to mediate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, became the one of the first ‘western-style democracies’ to openly condemn Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza. Silobreaker.com posted the following interview with Erdogan from the International News. Turkey, traditionally a close economic and political ally, has [...]
Loss of Phorm at adware company – and we can't wait for those ID cards, allegedly
December 19, 2008 – 7:27 pm
ZD Net reported that Delaware-registered adware company Phorm (THUS passim) has lost its UK CEO, Hugo Drayton, who leaves the company ‘by mutual agreement’ at the end of December. Lyn Millar, Finance Director has also resigned. They have been replaced by London-based deputy chief executive officer Nan Richards, and UK managing director Nick Barnett. Richards [...]
Now Gordon has spun off to Afghanistan – make that Pakistan (see above)
December 13, 2008 – 5:16 pm
. . . . “I’ll put a girdle about the earth in forty minutes” Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream We heard this morning that UK Gordon Brown has broken off his constructive discussions with EU leaders to appear in Afghanistan to mourn the death of four British soldiers, killed in two bomb incidents, one where a [...]
Why you should choose your ISP with care – correction to my earlier piece
December 12, 2008 – 12:49 pm
. . . I got it wrong earlier. Subversion of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the real threat to data privacy. In response to the excellent comments posted following my piece about browsers and spyware, I need to point out that the problem goes much deeper than browser technology. Internet Service providers (ISPs) have [...]
Cruel parenting is not a class issue
December 8, 2008 – 3:50 pm
By Julia Margo, Demos I expect that my fascination with Karen Matthews is predictably middle class. Her crime may be heinous, but she has captured our imagination in her role as working class anti-hero: a reminder of how some people (the ‘other half’) live in today’s Britain. The weekend coverage of sink estates – the [...]