The Guardian… All dogs are to be compulsorily microchipped so that their owners can be more easily traced under a crackdown on dangerous dogs to be unveiled today. How the fuck is that going to help fucking anything? The only thing it’ll do is help trace the owner of a stray dog. If a dog
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SimO 45 minutes ago (via sim-o.me.uk)
It’s unusual for The Guardian and The Spectator to agree on anything, but Seamus Milne and our own John R Bradley are sceptical about these Syrian rebels whom we’re being invited to support. Bradley was alone in predicting the Egyptian revolution, and argues in today’s magazine that the conventional wisdom is once again wrong. Who’s backing the rebels? The Qataris, keen to ...
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Spectator 50 minutes ago (via spectator.co.uk)
It’s unusual for The Guardian and The Spectator to agree on anything, but Seamus Milne and our own John R Bradley are sceptical about these Syrian rebels whom we’re being invited to support. Bradley was alone in predicting the Egyptian revolution, and argues in today’s magazine that the conventional wisdom is once again wrong. Who’s backing the rebels? The Qataris, keen to ...
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Spectator 2 hours ago (via spectator.co.uk)
A nimble two-step from The Guardian: 1. Polly Toynbee sends tweet encouraging all and sundry to take part in an open-access online poll being run by the BMJ. 2. The Guardian reports result of said BMJ poll. Then only thing missing, alas, is: 3. The Guardian then realises that reporting a voodoo poll which its
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LiberalDemocratVoice 15 hours ago (via libdemvoice.org)
The Guardian reported yesterday that Sky News has told its journalists not to re-tweet information from non-Sky Twitter users. That immediately sparked a barrage of criticism from Reuters, Charlie Beckett, GigaOM and lots of people on Twitter. But from a political perspective I can see why they’re doing it. I want to briefly address this
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LiberalConspiracy 1 day ago (via liberalconspiracy.org)
I have an article on the Guardian site today on why it's important to continue banker bashing. Bankers are the biggest recipients of government handouts of our time. They also have extraordinary powers over our lives. Why isn't either of this being adequately challenged? But there are more reasons too.
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