
Via a reTweet I have read this quite interesting piece by Charlie Beckett on what he has learned from Tony Blair’s book about (inter alia) political communication:
… everyone thinks of New Labour as the ultimate
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Alastair Campbell, Balkans, Charlie Beckett, new labour, Sarajevo, spin, The Journey, Tony Blair, war

This week marks the 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage in America.
This seems like a logical time to pat ourselves on the back for gracing the world with our presence and to ponder how far we’ve
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feminism, Rachel Marsden, suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, wimmin

Yesterday the world awoke to two pieces of shattering news that have, in their own ways, fractured human belief.
According to Professor Stephen Hawking, it turns out that the Universe was not created by an omnipotent
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I admit I have not read the book. But I did watch the Andrew Marr interview of Tony Blair on BBC 2 last night. And what a view! It is difficult even with the hindsight
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Don’t we all remember the thrill of our first microscope? The unalloyed joy of fiddling with the lenses to catch a gossamer glimpse of a dead fly’s knee hairs, or the life alleged to be
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BBC, BBC salaries, fat cat, Mark Thompson

A ship carrying 492 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka has docked on Canada’s West Coast, prompting Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to reiterate: “We will not hesitate to strengthen the laws if we have to
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A great article in the Evening Standard on the 20/8 pointed out that the NHS London “splashes out £114m on advisers” – which they went on to explain meant ‘management consultants’.
As a management consultant
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