Category: Politics

  • Be part of the conversations at Davos

    Keeping up with informal commentary and opinion from the 2007 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland (it starts on January 24) will be a treat this year as this meeting will be the most blogged and podcasted one so…

  • Celebrity Big Brother fall out gets the eyeballs

    A very public kerfuffle has erupted in the UK during this week over the Celebrity Big Brother reality TV show that’s extended right up the political chain to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Charges of racism and bigotry have been leveled…

  • Filling the TechCrunch UK void

    It’s nearly a week since Le Web 3 in Paris and it’s still hard to find any meaningful commentary about the event that isn’t overshadowed by talk about the political hijacking of the two-day conference. Much blog commentary late last…

  • Le Web 3: A French farce (or is it a tragedy?)

    An extraordinary event took place in Paris this week, one that I was due to be part of as a presenter but could not make it. Le Web 3, the third in a series of Web 2.0-ish events organized by…

  • Travel to the US and get a terrorist rating

    All British travellers who have visited the United States over the past four years have been given a terrorist rating, according to a Daily Telegraph report. This is one of the outcomes of the implementation of the Automated Targeting System…