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Category: Politics

  • Politics is such a load of blah

    I don’t write about politics in this blog even though it has a category/tag called Politics. Yet I’m becoming increasingly tempted to do so because there has been so much going on in just the past six months that prompts…

  • The ugly face of conspicuous consumption

    Did you have a great Christmas? We did in our family, a time of year when everyone gets together – parents, children, siblings, cousins – to simply enjoy each others’ company in a relaxed atmosphere. Plenty to eat and drink,…

  • Political influencing just had a major shift

    In the blogosphere, you’ll always hear talk about how people who write blogs or otherwise use social media can wield some influence in affecting the opinions of others. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that social media does have…

  • Does the government really want to hear what you think about climate change?

    An interesting discovery: Phil Woolas, the Minister for Climate Change – I never knew we had someone with this portfolio – writes a blog called Bali Diary. He started it in mid November. Woolas works at the Department for Environment,…

  • A hell of a way to get up to speed about data protection

    You’d have had to be off planet not to have heard about this political disaster that blew up yesterday which led to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling apologizing in the House of Commons. I watched the whole thing live…