Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Swedish humanists have put up adverts around Sweden proclaiming ‘God probably doesn’t exist’ in an attempt to challenge the role religion plays in public life. Sweden is a remarkably secular country but it’s still good to see that such a campaign is taking place. I’m all in favour of keeping religion out of public life […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
For those of you interested in getting some figures regarding MP’s expenses – try They Work For You. They also have details on MP’s saleries and other useful information.
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
It’s a typical April day stuffed full of sunshine and showers that seems to have wandered into the wrong month. I’ve managed to squeeze in a whole lot of spring cleaning, washing and general tidying up as well as a walk with Karin and Ted. I am now sitting down to a well deserved break […]
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
The Greenpeace ship, The Rainbow Warrior, is in town. They are here to prevent deep sea trawling as it damages the fragile ocean floor and marine life there. GT have an article up entitled A Celebrity In Town. A few pictures have been posted up of the ship arriving and being docked here at the […]
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
I flew to Helsinki from the Landvetter Airport yesterday after work on one of Blue 1’s uncrowded planes. It was a real pleasure after flying on Ryanair. The staff were really friendly and even gave me a map of the city, as well as directions to my hotel and information on which bus to take […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The G20 protests really kicked off today and reports of police violence are making it to the mainstream media. To get up to the minute reporting on the protests – go to Indymedia or Put People First. Loads of people are involved in the protests – here are some of the groups involved: Alternative London […]
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
So I was just wandering around the web and found that my friend Andy Higson has gone and got himself two blogs. His political blog and his amusing blog. Keep blogging Andy.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
It will soon become an offence to photograph a police officer. Officially the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 which amends the Terrorism Act 2000, will only make photographing police officers an offence if terrorism is suspected. However the widespread fear is that this law will be abused. Below are the figures from the government for the period […]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Check out this artistic and informative video.
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Keyvan is still at Medialab Prado and although he hasn’t taken any pictures himself you can see some here. He now has his very own team of collaborators and they are well on their way to make the Five Filters a reality. It totally looks like a teccie workaholic’s paradise. In the gaps between work […]
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