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Category: Politics

  • Obamaicon me!

    One of the interesting things – phenomena, perhaps – of the US presidential election campaign during 2008 was how many people remade themselves to look like Barack Obama. By that, I mean the images people use to portray themselves online.…

  • All eyes on Washington

    Unless you disconnect yourself today entirely from anything audio-visual, you won’t be able to miss the inauguration ceremony of incoming US President Barack Obama. While he will become the 44th President of the United States when he takes his oath…

  • The battle for command and control of the Labour Party

    Coming next month to an internet-connected device near you is LabourList.org, a new online presence for the Labour Party with social media at its heart. LabourList’s strapline says “Where Labour minded people come together,” a good indicator of what to…

  • Huge disappointment with Lloyds TSB

    Watching TV news early this morning, I was taken aback seeing the news that Lloyds TSB, one of the UK’s leading banks (and one I’ve had accounts with for 30 years), has agreed to pay a penalty of $350 million…

  • The bailout pictured

    (Click the image to see the larger original.) How do you react when you see some of the numbers that talk about how much various government bailouts will cost in the global recession that we’re surely heading into? I tend…