With more and more MP’s jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, Four Communications have cleverly pooled all MP’S tweets into a new website called Twung Parliament. With 195 MP’s currently using Twitter (a meagre 30 per cent of all MP’s), followers can read with ease all MP’s Tweets including those of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. [...]
Last Friday Google paid homage to the Pac-Man game in celebration of its 30th Birthday by putting the game on its homepage. I for one am a huge fan of what Google did as I love a bit of Pac-Man myself, however apparently it may have distracted a few of us…I mean, you….from your actual [...]
So this year’s Mercer list of top 50 cities to live was released this week with the media seemingly quick to pounce on the poor showing by UK cities. According to the 2010 list, only London makes the grade and that at a rather lowly 39th. Yes that is correct – apparently there are [...]
Concern over human cost overshadows iPad launch By Jamie McLaughlin
Respected political tome Total Politics has just published its Top 50 New MPs list. It’s a pretty informed list, with the rising stars and ones to watch from all of the main political parties. With a couple of exceptions (ex-Tory MEP and Daventry MP Chris Heaton-Harris for one), the main players of our next [...]
Facebook has experienced some negative press recently over privacy concerns on the site with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admitting in the Washington Post ‘sometimes we move to fast’. A few weeks back we all saw how easy it was to tap into live conversations your ‘friends’ were having without them knowing, and yesterday I [...]
The now infamous Deepwater Horizon nightmare continues, there is still an estimated 1,360 to 3,000 barrels of oil spewing into the open ocean every day (n.b. this is BP’s estimates). The extent of the disaster that we are currently seeing is only the tip of the iceberg, damage to local wildlife and economy cannot [...]
So Britain has its first coalition government since the Second World War. The impact on the body politic of the inconclusive May 6 election could not have been more unexpected. Lib Dems and Tories now share the spoils while Labour can only look on bemused and bewildered, having been rebuffed by the Liberals in [...]
What a week to be appointed the international communications provider for the World Cup England 2018 bid! So the private (or not so private) thoughts of Lord Triesman have been debated at length in all of the papers and I guess the only possible outcome was for him to resign. But what position [...]
When I went to the BBC website and searched ‘pharmaceuticals’, I came across this startling story about the lack of pharmaceuticals in Afghanistan. Opium is used to treat basic conditions like, headaches and colds. And as a result of this, a huge problem has developed – addiction. And it’s not just adults but children [...]
