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The Blood is The Life 17-11-2012
Saturday, November 17th, 2012 09:00 am- Danny Boyle accuses culture minister Maria Miller of 'outrageous' snub | Stage | The Guardian
- I am part of a rather small minority... and why I'm proud of the Liberal Democrats
Lady Mark on voting for a PCC where no Lib Dem is standing
- Who are the tools at the BBC that got rid of most the episodes of Top of the Pops from the 60s?
Andrew tells us why this happened
- Knit Your Own Scotland – A Work Of Comic Genius
Are there no ladies at all in Scotland? How do they breed?
- Liberator’s blog: Where were the pro-crime candidates?
A theory as to why nobody voted in the PCC elections - there was no meaningful choice.
- A month after download law, consumers spending less on music: survey ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
- Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to be White, Job Offers Suddenly Skyrocket | Techyville
- BBC News - Hartlepool rejects electoral mayoral role
- Don't Dumb Down Our BOTYs!
Definitely on millennium's side over this - surely there is room for BOTH longform blog posts AND tweets?
- BBC News - West Yorkshire PCC election: Turnout 13.8%
- The other local elections: Lib Dems gain five and hold three
- Add legally binding 'Reopen nominations (RON)' & 'Leave position vacant' options to all ballot papers - e-petitions
Would this result in an empty parliament? It might be fun to find out. And it certainly couldn't be more damaging than the situation democracy is currently in in this country.
- Steve McQueen's 1970 Husqvarna for sale
His motorbike, not his sewing machine.
- Why we need better announcement of election results
THIS!
- Roger Bolton on the Crisis at the BBC
In which his details his experiences of having been through similar himself - and ultimately sacked, then re-employed.
- Best Spoilt Ballot ever
- Temporary Chief Constable John Parkinson has welcomed today's appointment of Mark Burns-Williamson as West Yorkshire’s first Police and Crime Commissioner.
"Gizza job! Go on, gizza job!"
- andrewducker | The future of passwords
Oh this would be bliss.
- Lord Bonkers explains why you should always vote for yourself
"I won yesterday's election with a majority of one - and that because I rushed down to the village school to vote just before the polls closed. So you can see that my vote was quite decisive. It was not just that I had a majority of one: mine was the only vote cast in the whole of Rutland. But a victory is a victory, whatever the turnout or majority. Tomorrow I shall begin work on my plans to ensure that all police constables are fat and jolly and spend their time alternately helping old ladies across the road (preferably when they want to cross) and clipping apple scrumpers around the ear."
- Corby shows how a Lib Dem collapse will hurt the Tories
- Man who called for Blair to be arrested for war crimes fined £100 - Crime - UK - The Independent
The criminalisation of dissent continues.
- Ikea used forced prison labour to make furniture - Business News - Business - The Independent
- Our parties must rid themselves of this stench of nepotism | John Harris | Comment is free | The Guardian
Talk about a vicious circle: parties look like bizarre cults, so no one joins them; no one joins them, so they look ever more like bizarre cults
- John Whittingdale: give press one last chance to regulate themselves | Media | guardian.co.uk
My media law lecturer told me the press were in the last chance saloon for self regulation in 1999. Seems there's always time for just ONE more round of drinks...
- The Monkey’s Paw introduces the Biblio-mat book-vending machine
I am glad that this is in Canada. Were it in the UK, I have this image of James and Mat standing in front of it repeatedly feeding it pound coins and delightedly receiving book after book...
