Check it out – I’ve got a sneak preview of the latest service from everyone’s favourite search engine: Okay, only joking, but here’s an interesting piece in the Guardian today about new media behemoth Google’s first forays into politics, sponsoring candidates in the States (so far a Republican who’s in favour of net neutrality – …
Just back from Gdansk, where I was visiting the trade union Solidarnosc. Never been to Poland before, and Gdansk was a very nice place, but I’m knackered, so in lieu of any genuine cultural commentary, here are three things I found half-way funny: The plane we flew in on (once SAS had lost my baggage …
Very happy to see Thabitha Khumalo in the Torygraph this week, pictured looking very well. After the crackdown in Zimbabwe, she was almost insanely brave to fly back home from TUC Congress in Brighton, as the country’s most senior trades unionist outside jail, to help organise bail and medical help for her colleagues. She knew …
After my post on political geekery, I thought it only proper that I should put up my own homage to the WWW – so here is “Camsterdance” (wtf?): Play music – courtesy of Hampton the Hampster at Juno Records Now, who’s for Dave Çagri “I kiss you!” – or would we get a case of …
I’m not (too) ashamed to admit that I’m something of a geek, so there’s pretty much nothing I enjoy more than a good political/webby in-joke. As such, I *love* the nerdtastic “Hate my Tory” – an excellent Hot or Not spoof. Rather disappointingly, there’s not an awful lot of Tory hating going on, and the …
Still a lot of speculation about who will get the union votes in a Labour leadership contest – Amicus are cheering for Brown, and the non-affiliated RMT declared for McDonnell – Everyone else seems to be waiting to see the final cut, and maybe see what they might get from any of the candidates. Whoever …
I’ve been lurking in a lot more corners of the blogosphere of late, thanks to the almost-wonderful OnSpeed Mobile. As a result, any dead time – mainly on the train in my case – has become blog time, and I can easily check out the Bloggers4Labour what’s new page, and thence on to hundreds of …