‘Featured’ Archives
Does the BBC really need cutting down to size?
BBC News - BBC News iPhone and iPad app launches in the UK. The BBC's News app for the iPhone was launched on Friday, after much delay caused by objections from the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA). The NPA claimed it would "damage the nascent market" for apps by offering a free news product. This is an argument we have heard again [...]
Toxic dumping banged to rights
The case alleging that British/Dutch/Swiss firm Trafigura dumped its toxic waste in Ivory Coast, overloading capital Abidjan's health system and injuring thousands of people, reads like something from a John Le Carré novel. Yesterday, a Dutch court found the multinational guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing the [...]
“Stupid” goes to ethics committee
Lib Dem Cardiff Councillor John Dixon must have been surprised to be called to book over declaring that Scientology was "stupid". The fact that he did it on Twitter was probably enough to raise this to a national news story. But it is disturbing that a councillor can face censure for a remark like this. What Dixon actually tweeted was: "I [...]
What happens next?
The election is done, the coalition — for better or for worse — is bedding in. Nobody got exactly what they wanted, but what they are getting is a lot better than it might otherwise have been. The economy is in growth, the markets are beginning to stabilise. Many people have been asking me about my future as a candidate, so let me explain [...]
