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there are any number (13 September 2005, Interconnected)
"I propose that tax gets back to basics, and joins completely to the legal (and justice) systems. Put simply, if an exchange of money involves reference to the established legal system of a country, a royalty must be paid to the country."
creativity  politics  economics  finance  * 
september 2005 by mottram
At one Swedish library, you can borrow books%u2014and a lesbian | News | Advocate.com
A Swedish library, realizing that books are not the only things being judged by their covers, will give visitors a different opportunity this weekend%u2014to borrow a Muslim, a lesbian, or a Dane.
culture  news  politics  sweden 
august 2005 by mottram
Yahoo! Health Blog For Hope
Hilary Clinton has a weblog, with comments open, surprisingly.
health  weblogs  politics 
august 2005 by mottram
WHAT HAPPENED
WE ARE THE ONLY BLACK ORGANIZATION THAT EXPOSES AND OPPOSES LESBIAN FEMINISM WITCHCRAFT!!
politics  funny  weird 
august 2005 by mottram
Starting and Running a Political Weblog: The Basics
Persuading elected representatives to use weblogs. Great idea, but the snippy tone will surely put off more representatives than it will attract?
weblogs  weblogging  politics  campaign 
august 2005 by mottram
Bloggerheads (UK) - Let's put GREAT back into BRITAIN - you can do your bit!
Help enforce Section 132 of the Serious and Organised Crimes and Police Act 2005
funny  politics  rights 
august 2005 by mottram
Guardian Unlimited | Arts galleries | Banksy at the West Bank Barrier index
Hmmn, now that Banksy is positioning himself as a 'fine artist' (you know what I mean) one begins to wonder whether he's any cop.
art  israel  politics  graffiti  palestine 
august 2005 by mottram
Glasgow Metered Parking Action Group | homepage
A site coordinating protest against the GCC Traffic Management Scheme, which is essentially turning the entire West End into a giant pay and display car park.
glasgow  west-end  traffic  parking  council  politics 
july 2005 by mottram
Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: A Design For Life - The Red Cross and Israel
Fascinating post on Red Cross/Crescent/Star/Lion and Sun/Diamond controversies.
red-cross  geneva-convention  politics  israel 
june 2005 by mottram
Main Page - POSA
This wiki is an invitation to collaborate on a real-time history and analysis of the politics of open source software adoption.
FOSS  wiki  politics 
june 2005 by mottram
Talk:Michael Colvin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Big Brother's Derek has an, er, interesting past. (Knew I recognised him from somewhere.)
telly  politics  pop 
june 2005 by mottram
I Voted For You Because...
Tell your MP why you voted the way you did.
politics  election  mysociety.org 
may 2005 by mottram
Long Live Labor - Why I'm for Tony Blair. By Christopher Hitchens
It's 'Labour', for crying out loud. Otherwise not uninteresting.
uk  politics  hitchens 
april 2005 by mottram
The Map: The Nation waits | Leigh French | Variant 22
Iffiness surrounding the Map examined - I'd best not comment.
map  art  scotland  SAC  variant  politics  funding 
april 2005 by mottram
Paperback - How We Should Rule Ourselves - Canongate Home
A pamphlet by Alisdair Gray and Adam Tomkins arguing that 'the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics'.
politics  glasgow  scotland  uk  republicanism 
april 2005 by mottram
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush playlist puzzles pundits
The fact that I have a reasonable number of songs on my iPod in common with George Bush fills me with a strange dread.
news  ipod  apple  politics  bush  funny 
april 2005 by mottram
Downing Street Says...: Election
I was about to link to Downing Street Says as a handy source of election news. Not so, it seems.
politics  election  election2005  news 
april 2005 by mottram
BNP Leader on Race Hate Charges
About bloody time - the BNP are even more dangerous now that they attempt to cloak their racist motivations, nice to see them revealed for what they are.
BNP  politics  UK  scum  racism  hate 
april 2005 by mottram
SSP - Elections
The SSP need to update their elections page!
scotland  glasgow  politics  election  election2005 
april 2005 by mottram
Ann McKechin MP for Glasgow Maryhill
My new MP (I moved recently) has a pseudo-weblog type thing (no permalinks, nor proper archives, and a press release-ish tone, which is a shame).
glasgow  politics  weblogging  weblogs  labour  MPs 
april 2005 by mottram
Ann McKechin MP, Glasgow, Maryhill (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Ann McKechin, current Glasgow Maryhill MP, Labour candidate for Glasgow North, is a bit of Blairite judging by her voting record (bad on foundation hospitals, anti-terrorism, ID cards; good on gay rights.)
politics  election  election2005  labour  maryhill  glasgow  glasgow-north 
april 2005 by mottram
Christian Voice - 404 Not Found
The Christian Voice website now returns a 404 Not Found error. I wonder if they were contravening something in their ISPs terms and conditions, or if it's something more... interesting.
scum  politics  fundamentalism  christian 
march 2005 by mottram
Cosmopolitan Scum
Christian Voice pressure Derby theatre into cancelling performances of Jerry Springer, the Opera
politics  censhorship  fundamentalism 
march 2005 by mottram
fumblings: Naming II:
Trans-this, trans-that, trans-the other, gibo, bigo, bibo and gigo. You'll know what I'm talking about if you read this post on naming people who are - how can I put this? - interestingly gendered.
intersex  transgender  gender  politics  naming  taxonomy 
february 2005 by mottram
Radio Free Nepal
News of the impact of the Royal Coup in Nepal, from Nepal
weblogs  politics  nepal 
february 2005 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Deal to ban 'homophobic' reggae
As vile as many dancehall records are, this strikes me as stupid and wrong.
dancehall  politics  homophobia  music 
february 2005 by mottram
qwghlm.co.uk: 2001 Electoral Map of Britain
This is a map of parliamentary constituencies in Great Britain, proportionally coloured according to the support for the three main parties in the 2001 general election
maps  mapping  politics 
february 2005 by mottram
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | 'For the briefest of moments the genie was out of the bottle'
All the mid-90s bands she mentions were shit, and she doesn't mention Electralane, one of the best bands making music today, all-women or not. (ie. she has a point, but Louise Weiner of Sleeper 'fame' is still a complete arse.)
music  politics  feminism  women 
february 2005 by mottram
Kilroy-Silk launches party with attack on asylum and immigration policies.
New political party for folk too chicken to join the fucking BNP.
scum  politics  uk  fascists 
february 2005 by mottram
Space and Culture : The International Journal of Social Spaces
Anne points to the Stanford Humanities Lab collaborative research project on "the rise and fall of the crowd -- particularly the revolutionary crowd -- in the Western sociopolitical imagination between 1789 and the present". Wow. Fascinating stuff.
crowds  social  politics 
january 2005 by mottram
Scotsman.com News - Politics - End looms for right-to-buy policy
A SENIOR minister yesterday gave the strongest hint yet that the Scottish Executive intends to scrap the right of council house tenants to buy their homes.
homelessness  politics  scotland  homes  council 
january 2005 by mottram
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Brussels chews over Apple's pricing policy
Competition authorities in Brussels will ask Apple why iTunes tracks cost 15% more to download in Britain than in France or Germany.
apple  europe  music  politics 
december 2004 by mottram
Tenet calls for Internet security -- The Washington Times
"Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to those who can show they take security seriously, he said." WTF?
america  cia  internet  politics  scum  web 
december 2004 by mottram
Socialist Worker(Britain) - 'Why did they dump Tommy?'
Quotes a motion by Livingston SSP: "The central issue is the defence of a working class leader from attacks by the right wing press." Quite.
SSP  media  politics  scotland  sheridan  socialism 
december 2004 by mottram
ukraine_revolution
Blogging the troubles in the Ukraine
news  politics  ukraine  weblogs 
november 2004 by mottram
Sheridan was forced out by his own party - [Sunday Herald]
Tommy Sheridan was given an ultimatum by the Scottish Socialist Party he led: resign or the party will reveal information about you that will force you to resign, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
SSP  politics  scotland 
november 2004 by mottram
Scotsman.com News - Politics - Sheridan tells lawyers to sue newspaper over affair story
The MSP, who stood down as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party last week, is to sue the Scottish News of the World for defamation after an article claimed he had a four-year-long affair with party activist Fiona McGuire.
SSP  politics  scotland 
november 2004 by mottram
Revealed: War has cost 100,000 Iraqi lives
Oh great, are 'we' trying to play catch-up with Saddam or something?
iraq  politics  scum  war 
october 2004 by mottram
Lie Girls... call 212-875-7000
Reassurance and lies from phone sex lovelies!
funny  politics 
october 2004 by mottram
FOXNews.com - Views - America Under Attack ... by British Media
A look at the British media by Fox News' man in London - he's not happy, presumably unused to the idea of truth, dissent, investigation, etc. on the television.
media  politics  scum 
october 2004 by mottram
Secession!
I think history may be about to go sideways... One thing I think which is not at all beyond the realm of possibility... is a dissolution of the United States.
politics  social  theory 
october 2004 by mottram
Spy Blog: Indymedia server scandal - "no UK law enforcement agencies were involved"
An interesting update on the Indymedia seizure - it may well have been illegal under UK law.
politics  society 
october 2004 by mottram
Die, Thatcher, Die!
Why does she still cling on? I want my street party!
funny  politics 
october 2004 by mottram
Law enforcement memo of "imminent" terror attack?
October Surprise time! Of course, there need not be an actual attack if this news spreads widely enough to turn cowardly custard Yanks over to voting Bush. Then he can provoke Iran into pre-emptive action, etc. etc.
politics  scum  society 
october 2004 by mottram
This is London: Music cheats in court
The BPI are prosecuting 28 filesharers, RIAA-style. Interesting that they've been spamming people via IM with warnings to stop using filesharing sites - can we prosecute them for that under EU anti-spam legislation?
copyright  filesharing  music  politics 
october 2004 by mottram
MacCentral: Apple offers presidential debate via iTunes
Free download of the first debate between Bush and Kerry at the iTMS
audio  politics  speech 
october 2004 by mottram
Bumbling Fuckwits
Standing ovations for mouthing vague platitudes, no discernable policies announced. They're finished, aren't they?
conservatives  news  politics  scum 
october 2004 by mottram
Robert Kilroy-Silk's views about foreigners
The collected racisms of everyone's least favourite oleaginous fuck-knuckle, courtesy of the Eye.
funny  politics  race  scum 
october 2004 by mottram
Sentenced to Be Raped
The really disheartening thing is that cases like this, or honour killings, or female genital mutilation are largely ignored.
politics 
october 2004 by mottram
Guardian | Keep power and sewage plants secret, media told
Newspaper editors and television producers are to be asked to avoid referring to such visible installations as sewage works and power stations on the grounds they are potential targets for terrorists.
news  politics 
october 2004 by mottram
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