Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
yesterday's epolitix bulletin had this lovely snippet:
"The chancellor Alistair Darling uses an interview with the Financial Times newspaper to say sudden changes on taxing private equity could impact negatively on the "absolutely critical" role of the City in the economy"
oh yes of course alistair. whilst i may not be disagreeing ...
Posted in Cabinet, Corporation, Institutions, Politics, Private Equity, Regulation, Social Institutions, Social Organization, WTO, collaborative markets, critique of economics, social observation, society and sociology | 14 Comments »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
via Pickled Politics ( thanks Sunny!)
"Prominent journalist and fellow blogger Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the military police in Bangladesh, a serious attack on press freedom in the country.
An editor and outspoken journalist for the English daily newspaper Daily Star, he also worked for CNN and Human Rights ...
Posted in Activism, Bangladesh, Democracy, Human Rights, Media, Media freedom, Military Rule, Politics, Power, World Affairs: politics and news | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Thanks Leighton for passing this one on..
"The last simultaneous 'lone' demo 2006 is on December 20 in Parliament Square ..permission from the police should have been applied for by the 14th" (which probably means all the procrastinators are 'out'!) "As Rachel says, "The idea of the Simulataneous Lone Mass ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, London, Lone Demo, Parliament Square, Political Activism, Politics, Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 9th, 2006
Good for Lord Falconer. Glad someone's standing in the way of the Sun and David Cameron in their attempts to get rid of the Human Rights Act. Why they think it will help them I'm not sure -but it seems to be one of those time where the 'rights of ...
Posted in Human Rights, Policy, Politics | 10 Comments »
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
So the discussion around 'foreign policy' - Ministers saying but of course we wouldn't change our foreign policy just because of some stupid terrorist threat, or what some stupid people suggested has something to do with the threat'. Right - if that's the only reason you were going to ...
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, International Relations, Irony, Policy, Politics, Social Organization, Terrorism, War on Terror, World Affairs: politics and news, society and sociology, stupidity and violence | 32 Comments »
Monday, June 12th, 2006
Politics, n, pl. : A means of livelihood affected by the more degraded portion of our criminal classes.
Politics, n. : A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
The Cynics Handbook by Ambros Bierce (begun as a weekly column in 1881)
via ...
Posted in Politics, Quotes | 7 Comments »
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Voting currently underway. the BBC's website has a map which will be updated with live results throughout the night.
On another note, i thought this website was interesting - Election Memory - Online Hustings for the Lambeth elections - now there's an idea!
Posted in Local Government, London, News & info, Party Politics, Politics, UK | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Elections in Peru and Italy- so what's happening? Most of the focus is what's going on with Berlusconi -who's apparently not admitting defeat yet. the latest news indicates that Romano Prodi, the centre-left opposition leader has won by a slim majority, but nothing will be confirmed till the expat votes ...
Posted in Latin America, News & info, Politics, World Affairs: politics and news, berlusconi, italy, peru, romano prodi | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
last night's Newsnight was hilarious, just superb: a look at what's happening in Latin America, with the upcoming elections in Peru, and discussions related to whether there is such a thing as a 'continental drift to the left'. ( and if so, what could the US administration's reaction possibly be..)
Gavin ...
Posted in Globalization, International Relations, Latin America, News & info, Newsnight, Politics | No Comments »
Saturday, February 25th, 2006
im off on travels. and when i return hopefully there will be plenty of material from my trip to Dhaka, Bangladesh.
in the meantime, here in London this weekend no doubt there will be plenty of rumination on Ken Livingstone's latest mishap - press headlines across the world are already screaming ...
Posted in London, News & info, Newspapers and Magazines, Politics, Thoughts, Travel, british politics | 2 Comments »