There’s a load of petitions floating around on the Number 10 website. I don’t know if any of them are going to get anywhere, but it seems to me that in the end, things like dropping the ban on hunting just aren’t going to happen (nor is juggling ice cream).
But there’s one that’s sensible, doesn’t […]
If there is one issue in this country that has failed to be addressed properly by any political party, it is the issue of housing.
Throughout the 2nd half of the 20th Century, we have seen huge technological improvements that have put many things into the hands of the not just the moderately well-off, but even […]
If there’s something that annoys me, it’s companies asking me to pay to get information about them. I object because the whole purpose of, for instance, buying a Habitat catalogue is for me to buy stuff from Habitat. The result is, I see the price, think "get stuffed", don’t read the catalogue and don’t buy […]
George Osborne: Politics and Media in the Internet Age
I’ve just read a transcript of a speech that George Osborne made on Politics and Media in the Internet Age. It actually made me a little dewy eyed.
Normally, when politicians talk about IT or the internet, I want to cry for different reasons - because they’re spouting […]
This "clocks going forward" thing? Anyone know what people gain from doing it, and how many are their number?
I was reading today’s post by Paulie about the centralisation of mass media. This quote particularly struck me:-
Someone else (Ross Sleight of Virgin Games I think?) quoted in-house BBC strategists who claim that - by 2011 - only two events could expect to attract over 10m viewers (a royal wedding or a World Cup Final […]
George Monbiot in the Guardian suggests the following:-
In the past, it has often asked people to speak about contentious issues who - unknown to the BBC - had an undeclared financial interest. These are people working for "thinktanks" that take money from corporations, and advance arguments in the media that are in tune with theirs. […]
The Observer reported at the weekend: Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith
This is just wishful thinking on someone’s part. Microsoft isn’t close to being finished. I have rarely seen someone running Linux, Unix or a Mac on their desktop in a large corporation. The times that I have, they were engineers, […]
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5277350.stm
"Ms Flint will be working across all government departments to develop a new fitness strategy for England. "
How about lowering VAT on gym memberships to 5%. More people go to gyms and get fitter, saving money on the NHS. Sounds like a win to me.
While she’s at it, she could suggest to Lord Falcolner, […]
http://www.bookmooch.com/
This is a great idea. An exchange for books. Put up the books available, and when someone requests one, you send it to them, and earn a point to get a book from somewhere else. No messing around with small cash transactions.
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