Results from recent regional and local elections should bring a few cheers to those, like me, who have long distrusted New Labour. While the letters in Tony Blair nearly form an anagram for Tory Plan B (if we replace i with p), David Cameron certainly follows in the deceptive footsteps of our Tone, as the
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On The Nature of Violence
Consuming re-enactments of violence in various forms has long brought considerable pleasure to large number of people, especially but by no means exclusively, males. Quite clearly many residents of middle class suburbs in towns and cities across the prosperous world are relatively shielded from the real-world physical violence that millions experience on a daily basis
⋯All in the mind, corporatism
In Association with Pfizer
Someone queried the other day whether any evidence linked Stanley Feldman, co-author of Panic Nation, with Spiked Online. A quick Web search reveals a number of his articles and references in the infamous GMO-promoting, pro-Nuclear, pro-Drug and pseudo-libertarian Web site. But then something caught my attention, right on the front page. Spiked Online are running
⋯corporatism, Living Marxism
Implementing an Ajax-like Interface: A Quick How-to
In the Web development world there’s been a lot of buzz about an acronym many of us previously associated either with a brand of detergent or a Dutch football team. In a nutshell Asynchronous Javascript And XML means inserting new information into a Web page without reloading the whole page. Traditionally Dynamic HTML would use
⋯Scientific Orthodoxy and Scientific Fact
Open letter to George Monbiot I just read your recent piece (3 May 2007) on Alexander Cockburn’s anthropogenic climate change scepticism and his reliance on one scientist. Let me first state that broadly speaking I’m with you on this one. Irrespective of our exact scientific interpretation, it seems obvious that the exponential rise in humanity’s
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