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Category: Politics

  • Twittering Gordon Brown’s US visit

    One of the more interesting entrants to the Twitter community is DowningStreet, the moniker of a person or persons unknown in the digital communications team at 10 Downing Street. Daily tweets inform the worldwide Twitter community of events, Prime Minister’s…

  • Rebranding the French presidency

    French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in the UK on a state visit, the first by a French leader in over a decade. Watching the BBC News 24 live coverage this morning of his arrival at Windsor Castle for all the…

  • The political cynicism of Quaero

    I’m probably one of the relatively few Englishmen who think the European Union is a good thing. After all, I am from a country that talks about Europe generally as a separate place, as in "I’m going to Europe" rather…

  • Ten Chinese superlatives

    In The Economist this week, there’s a fascinating feature about China and the country’s development of its infrastructure – roads, railways, airports, etc. As with much of the writing in The Economist, it’s a well-written and compelling piece that draws…

  • The percolating effect of the Davos Conversation

    The 2008 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wraps up today. One of the most interesting aspects of the meeting has been The Davos Question, the YouTube channel where a single question was posed: What one thing…