Posts Tagged ‘MP’
Why Britain needs Labour to find its feet — fast
BBC News - Will geeks inherit the earth?. Like it or not (and I don't), our electoral system is locked into "us" and "them". Government and official opposition. That's how the system works and, though I believe it's time to change it, as long as it is the system (to paraphrase Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force), we have to make it work. Until [...]
Milk saved — evidence of the ‘coalition effect’?
BBC News - Downing Street rejects child milk scheme cut suggestion. David Cameron has come out against UK Health Minister Anne Milton's proposal to scrap free milk for under fives. Of course, we will never know the real reasoning behind this U-turn, but the following factors are certainly at play: Nobody likes to be seen taking milk from small [...]
Beyond GWAFFTEY — GWAFFITEY?
The popularity of yesterday's article GWAFFTEY — is Web 2.0 now just eight things? took me slightly by surprise. Within 12 hours Google was listing 220 links to it. My contention was that just eight brand concepts — Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, FaceBook, Flickr, Twitter, eBay and YouTube occupied the majority of people's idea about what online [...]
Four heads that defined the world
In the British Museum, London, the curators have placed four remarkable sculptured heads together. They are not remarkable as sculptures — they are all Roman copies of lost Greek originals. They remarkable by juxtaposition — the four great schools of Greek philosophy represented either by their founders or principal exponents. Sokrates, [...]
