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party | election | labour | liberal democrat | clegg John Kampfner supports Li...
simon wilson

Today the well-respected political commentator John Kampfner launched the pamphlet, Lost labours, with Nick Clegg.He comments, "As somebody who has a long involvement with the Labour party, including editing the New Statesman magazine, I have been a...

apple ipad | playstation move | apps marketplace | movie trailer | new controller Apple iPad Steals the Lim...
UK Gadget and Tech News, ...

If you thought this year’s Oscars was just a place for movie awards and celebrities touting their posh frocks down the red carpet, then think again. This time it was tech giants, Apple, that were stealing some of the limelight … [visit site t...

street view | google street | view coverage | google maps | streets Google Street View Covers...
Technology Blog (UK), Hi-...

Initially, Google Street View was fairly controversial with many people complaining about invasion of privacy and such issues. However, those concerns have not stopped Google from expanding the service, because as of tomorrow (11th March 2010), you ...

gordon brown | defence chiefs | defence spending | cut defence | snatch land You can't buck the narrat...
EU Referendum

There are several things I try to do with this blog. In bringing you a diet of posts each day, one of my aims is to avoid being derivative. My preference is to bring genuine, new or little-known information to the table, or to add fresh thinking o...

nick hogan | anna raccoon | old holborn | christopher gill | hogan freed Nick Hogan Released -Offi...
Libertarian Party UK

It took the blogosphere just four days to raisethe near £10 000 to secure the release of Nick Hogan, imprisoned forsix months for flouting the smoking ban in his own premises and failingto act as the States unofficial Policeman.It took a further fiv...

arsenal | cup | porto | bendtner | watch potato Weekend Review Show: EPL...
EPL Talk

The FA Cup quarterfinals and Manchester United and Arsenal’s continued assault on the Premiership’s lead highlight this weekend review edition of the EPL Talk podcast. Laurence McKenna and Richard Farley take you through the four FA C...

march 2010 | ed balls | lottery admissions | balls admitted | stinging fly Selly Oak Ward Committee ...
Robert Wright's Blog

The next meeting of the Selly Oak Ward Committee is at 7pm on Wednesday 17 March 2010 at the 1at Ariel Scout HQ, Gibbins Road (next to Harborne Lane), Selly Oak.Items on the agenda include:an update on work on the Selly Oak New Road (a representativ...

amorth | alleged plot | lars vilks | prophet | swedish cartoonist THE BOY CHOIR SANG : HE A...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

The Roman Catholic church is being plunged into a renewed crisis over how it has dealt with the sexual abuse of children by its clergy after it emerged that the brother of former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI, Monsign...

dog owners | dangerous dogs | responsible dog | dog tax | status dogs New Labour are barking up...
The Lone Voice

Alan Johnson and Hilary Benn have produced a report which proposes that all dogs in this country should be micro-chipped and that dog-owners should have compulsory third-party insurance. Story Dog owners face a new pet “tax” in a government in...

indigenous british | racist | bnp rules | members | still discriminating BNP plans to vet would-be...
The Guardian World News

Party's revised constitution would require all applicants to submit to a two-hour home visit, court is toldThe British National party plans to send officials to vet all would-be members in their homes, a court heard today.A clause in the far right g...

labour peer | lord paul | baroness uddin | prosecution | expenses charges No expenses charges again...
The Guardian World News

Labour peer was investigated over claims that she was paid expenses on a flat in Kent that had been unoccupied for yearsLady Uddin, the Labour peer accused of claiming more than £100,000 in expenses for a flat she did not live in, will not face any ...

climate change | climate science | greenhouse gas | gas emissions | scientists Who owns our science?
EU Referendum

Jo Nova makes a good point in her recent piece about the hideously complex task of tracing funds spent on climate change research. It's a PhD size project, she writes, and there are no grants available to fund this kind of PhD.Actually, as I've hint...

jon venables | bulger's killer | james bulger | prison | james bulger's Bulger killer’s identity ...
Rhod on Public Affairs

Prison guards apparently twigged because of the special attention Jon Venables has receivedBy Tim EdwardsLAST UPDATED 7:50 AM, MARCH 5, 2010It was claimed today that Jon Venables, the murderer of James Bulger, has had his new identity revealed after...

oscars | blind side | best actress | sandra bullock | bigelow Hurt Locker trounces Avat...
The Guardian World News

• Kathryn Bigelow is first woman to win best director Oscar• Avatar gets only three out of nine nominations• Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique win acting honoursFor once, the Oscars were a genuine nail-biter. Right through t...

hadrian's wall | route hadrian's | volunteers holding | illuminate hadrian's | wall heritage People's army to light up...
The Guardian World News

Thousands using gas flares will illuminate the whole course of Britain's biggest historic monumentInteractive: Lighting up Hadrian's wallAn army that would have astonished the emperor Hadrian is set to take over his Roman wall tomorrow night, lighti...

israel | joe biden | peace | east jerusalem | west bank Israel backs more settlem...
The Guardian World News

Approval for building of 112 new flats in Beitar Illit comes despite partial curbs on settlement construction announced by Israeli governmentThe Israeli defence ministry today authorised further construction in a Jewish settlement on the occupied We...

dyson’s report | voters quiz | brown tough | james dyson’s | politics destruction William Hague: Britain at...
Daily Referendum

In his speech today, William Hague said:“Our ability to undertake economic modernisation will be critical to Britain’s future influence. When capital, labour and technology are increasingly mobile we cannot stand still. That is why James Dyson’s rep...

harry cohen | expenses | mp harry | criminal | police 3 Labour MPs in Court and...
Richard Willis's Blog

Harry Cohen MP Tomorrow three Labour MPs will appear in court charged with offences under the Theft Act due to their Parliamentary expenses claims. Elliott Morley, Jim Devine and David Chaytor will appear in Westminster Magistrates Court. They are t...

cabin crew | unite | aimed averting | striking union | brown’s spin Last-ditch offer as BA st...
The Guardian World News

• BA accepts partial repeal of staff cuts on flights• Union mulls counter-offer as 5pm deadline for talks loomsBritish Airways has tabled an 11th-hour counter-offer as peace talks over a looming cabin crew strike go to the wire.The airline has respo...

organisations nominated | 237 individuals | fake intel | record 237 | 920 processors Daily Technology News For...
Jason Slater Technology B...

Mon, 8th Mar In this article we’ll take a look at some of the key technology news stories and headlines, from around the world, for Monday, 8th March 2010. Today’s Hot Topic: Counterfeit drug pushes are targeting UK based University webs...

ashleigh hall | facebook | social networking | peter chapman | dangers social Facebook threatens to sue...
The Guardian World News

Social networking site fears reputation permanently damaged by false claim that it let older men pressure teenage girls for sexFacebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published on Wednesda...

afghan | political settlement | jirga | political engagement | insurgents prepared Start Afghanistan peace t...
The Guardian World News

Foreign Office officials believe elements of Taliban ready to talk but fears grow of long Afghan conflict, and growing casualtiesBritain will today urge the Afghan government to put more effort into the pursuit of peace talks amid fears that the war...

polar bears | bluefin tuna | tuna trade | atlantic bluefin | international trade US throws weight behind p...
The Guardian World News

Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worseIt is a familiar story in the climate change debate. The US government is at odds ...

city jos | nigeria | religious | berom | plateau state Over 500 Christians slaug...
Rhod on Public Affairs

JOS, Nigeria (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.Funerals took place for victims of th...

sex abuse | priestly celibacy | archbishop vienna | benedict xvi | pope benedict NOT WANTING TO SIT IN THE...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

In the UK yesterday 3 New Labour MP’s and an opposition Conservative member of the House of Lords insisted that they should not be tried in the courts when they appeared before a judge on charges of expenses fraud. Elliot Morley, David Chayto...

tough decisions | mission | risks ahead | being blown | gordon's character None Of The Above Please
Governmentitus

So we are to have a budget in two weeks time, or at least we are to have Alistair Darling on TV in two weeks time telling us how he is going to spent yet more borrowed cash on swing voters in order to buy Labour another election. Here is some of wha...

6 music | rex featuers | mirco toniolo | drops bruce | dickinson mirco Opinion: The BBC – Snog, ...
Liberal Democrat Voice

It has been open season on the BBC of late. We all have our reasons for criticism: the incompetent decision to close 6 Music, the failure to manage budgets, the excessive salaries of performers and especially of senior managers create a climate of ...

nouri | being counted | maliki establishing | expected | iraq's Iraqi Fed. Election Pound...
Rhod on Public Affairs

Martin Chulov in BaghdadThe Guardian, Sunday 7 March 2010 13.24 GMT A barrage of early-morning rockets that killed at least 25 people across Baghdad has failed to deter voters from turning out in solid numbers in Iraq's pivotal general election.Up t...

annual cheese | cooper's hill | cancelled due | rolling event | cheese rolling Health and safety fears h...
The Guardian World News

Rollers left cheesed off as event stopped due to overcrowding, but organisers are trying to find a solutionIt has long been regarded as one of the most curious – and hazardous – of English springtime pastimes. Competitors chase a large round of chee...

total politics | nick griffin | interview | boycotting total | bnp We’ll huff and we’ll puff...
Though Cowards Flinch

As huffing and puffing seems to be what lefties are best at, in the eyes of the Right-blogosphere at least, we at Though Cowards Flinch thought it might be fun to try some. It has come to our attention that the magazine ‘Total Politics’ ...

 

Video: First look at Sony Ericssion Aspen via GadgetLite - Latest gadgets and technology news February 8th, 2010 at 12:00

image Winner of our free 1TB portable external hard drive giveaway from WD announced, congrats! Also, are you on Facebook? If you are, we've just launched our fan page, another way to stay up to date with us and of course our weekly free gadget giveaways. Video: First look at Sony Ericssion Aspen Announced last week, the Sony Ericsson Aspen is the first smartphone to officially run Windows Mobile 6.5.3. It belongs to the GeenHeart family, which is a series of eco-friendly handsets by Sony Ericsson. Check out a quick first look review below… Read more about the Aspen…...

Sony Ericsson Aspen: New eco-friendly Windows Mobile smartphone via GadgetLite - Latest gadgets and technology news February 5th, 2010 at 09:15

image Winner of our free 1TB portable external hard drive giveaway from WD announced, congrats! Also, are you on Facebook? If you are, we've just launched our fan page, another way to stay up to date with us and of course our weekly free gadget giveaways. Sony Ericsson Aspen: New eco-friendly Windows Mobile smartphone Sony Ericsson has released their new business style smartphone, the Sony Ericsson Aspen. Its the first to be running on the new Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Looking very similar to Nokia’s E series smartphones, the 3G-equipped Aspen comes with a 2.4 inch QVGA TFT touchscreen display, a 3.2 megapixel camera with 4 x digital zoom, built in WiFi, A-GPS and blueooth. What makes the Aspen different from smartphones of similar class by other phonemakers is that it has been...

Sony Ericsson Aspen announced via Coolest Gadgets February 3rd, 2010 at 13:00

image Sony Ericsson takes the high road with their latest cellphone to be announced which will be part of their GreenHeart portfolio – we’re talking abou the Sony Ericsson Aspen. Sounds like some sort of high end resort, doesn’t it? Well, this eco-minded smartphone will run on the much maligned Windows Mobile platform, but comes with an added twist – it has the latest Windows Mobile 6.5.3 version which brings a slew of improvements and updates – more on it later in the extended post, let us take a look at the hardware specifications first. The Sony Ericsson Aspen is positioned as a business smartphone with green credentials, boasting multi-tasking capability with a touch experience and QWERTY keyboard which is more than handy to get those text messages and emails...

Sony Ericsson Aspen Announced – GreenHeart Business Phone via GadgetyNews.com February 2nd, 2010 at 11:20

image Today sees the announcement of the new Sony Ericsson Aspen. SE’s latest business blower joins the rest of its eco-friends in the GreenHeart range. Being aimed at the busy business-person you get a QWERTY-board for firing off emails and a touchscreen to ease the multi-tasking. You’re able to organise and adapt panels to change during the day and use Slide View for quick access to common features. The user will also be able to view and edit office files easily with one touch operation and jump onto the web in one click. Your company will rest a little easier after those ‘business lunches’ as, should the handest be left in the back of a cab after that liquid lunch, Microsoft’s MyPhone service will be able to remotely erase phone data. “Sony Ericsson Aspen™...

Aspen Institute’s Environmental Forum Interviews via Life Goggles May 6th, 2008 at 11:00

image This was passed to me from Marilyn of the fascinating Intelligent Travel a few weeks back. National Geographic’s magazine site has some interviews with attendees of the Aspen Institute’s Environmental Forum. Interviewees include Canadian Inuit activist and Nobel Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who says those at the top of the world acutely feel the effects of global warming, climatologist Konrad Steffen talks about the surprising speed of ice loss in Greenland, and friend of Life Goggles Josh Dorfman, author of The Lazy Environmentalist, who explains that fighting climate change doesn’t require busy, stressed-out people to change their nature. Very interesting, and there are many more so please take a look. Welcome RSS Readers! The Great Green Giveaway Competition...