With the Iraq war enquiry starting as a result of the work done by Plaid in Westminster in the past it is good to note that once again the party is bringing the government to task over Afghanistan . Joined by the SNP and some of Labour MPs who still have a conscience. Adam Price, who is once again the most vocal critic of New Labour, is right to highlight that of all the forces in Afghanistan the UK...
Known specs: Android ARM Cortex - A8 800MHz processor QWERTY Keypad AMOLED touch screen GPS, digital compass WLAN Inbrics will have it at CES 2010 so we should get our hands on it then.. Inbrics press release [ translated ]
Old gaming consoles don’t work the greatest after being used over and over again. Once it’s worn out beyond repair, you’re left with the decision to toss it or cling to it for some kind of a project. Most gamers that are attached to the console would prefer to find a way to cherish the [...]
[UK] Business social network LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3 million registered users in these parts. Kevin Eyres , Managing Director Europe at LinkedIn, announced the feat at a London event last night and on the company's blog this morning. LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman attended the event as well, and told Reuters afterwards that the company plans to pursue an IPO...
Human Rights Watch has just released a report - Cruel Brittania [pdf] - that charges the UK with complicity in torture in Pakistan. It is a shame that this report should begin with the sentence, 'A key lesson from the...
There's no shortage of shit to roll your eyes over when it comes to pop music. For women hit-makers, all too often the themes revolve around being done wrong by a man; how they are the hottest women in the club or sexier than the competition; or how many luxury goods they have as a stand in for how valuable they themselves are. You find all the above compressed in the recent videos by Ms. Lopez, where...
I know I've said it before - and I do believe it - that the Nationalists best route out of the obvious 'referendum-conundrum' they've got themselves into, would simply be to 'park' their demand for outright Independence ... ... the First Minister, instead of launching a White Paper on a referendum vote next week, should stand up and say that the National Conversation (and very recent polls maybe?)...
Users of the international edition of the BBC News website will notice some changes to the front page today. We have increased the number of headlines under each of the section headings in the bottom half of the page, made the popular Business and Technology sections more prominent by adding pictures, and we have increased the number of featured items in the video area. Internationally, advertisements...
Has local UK newspaper publisher Johnston Press beaten Murdoch to the paywall? The Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisher is to introduce subscription charges across a number of its weekly newspaper sites from next week “ to find a sustainable business model going forward ”, according to Holdthefrontpage , which says it has a leaked internal memo. HTFP says the unidentified sites (JP has...
Andrew Sullivan is still giving me assignments. So let me give him one. It's only fair. Andrew Sullivan, what if, with the same intensity and standards you've aimed at Palin, you went through the things Barack Obama has said and written? (Pick a segment of his career that is equivalent to the period you examined of Palin's.) What kind of a list would you end of with? You say: [S]omething is very seriously...
Wouldn't it make sense for the US to also schedule a serious inquiry into the Iraq war? It's even more obvious that the Bush administration had early plans to invade Iraq and simply manufactured problems to trigger the invasion. Then PM Tony Blair initially rejected the idea because it was unlawful, though he eventually folded. The Guardian : Evidence given at the opening day of the inquiry, chaired...
The Telegraph reports that Hollywood scriptwriter and director Roger Avary is tweeting from prison while he is serving time for manslaughter: Roger Avary, who received an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction, is posting daily tweets with grim, sometimes poignant tales of prison life. Avary was sentenced to serve a year...
"Yes, there was an issue with the original download," a Sony Europe spokesperson has told Eurogamer . Said issue, which rendered PAL digital copies of Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines dead on arrival , was rectified by replacing the PSP file on the European PlayStation store -- though this came at a cost to those who had already been greeted by the defective copy's never-ending loading screen....
CON 39%(38) LAB 22%(25) LD 21%(20) OTHERS 18% (18) Labour only one point ahead of the Lib Dems There’s a new Angus Reid Strategies poll exclusively for PB and it shows a very different picture from the Ipsos-MORI survey that was published in the Observer yesterday. The fieldwork for this 2,000 sample online poll started on Friday and only finished [...]
We all know the “t”-word. Our President has used it many times, as did former UN Secretary General Annan. It’s – all together now – transparency. Now the “t”-word is promised us in almost every campaign by politicians (and mega-bureaucrats like Kofi) and never delivered, so we’re used to looking at it [...]
