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giroscope: Darkness Falls
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/darkness-falls.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). One worthwhile accomplishment today was to join the distinguished list of people banned by one of mine (and most right- thinking peoples) bête noires, Richard J Murphy in being barred from his blog's comments sections for pointing out the absurdity of This post. Arguing that a 'Left wing filter was the only way the true intent of the six decades deceased economist could be viewed. With his assessment that the Tories still have a chance of winning the next Election.
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giroscope: Labour: the last post
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/08/labour-last-post.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Labour: the last post. This is, for the foreseeable future, the last post I will make on the Labour party (and it may well be the last ever giroscope post, before moving to the new Hello Underground Typewriter blog - which I will do sometime in late August). It's the end of an era in many ways. Ever since this blog was set up in 2006, around 50% of the posts, at least, have been about the Labour party, from a broadly sympathetic perspective. Thinks the same way I do:.
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giroscope: Chris Huhne - a few thoughts
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/02/chris-huhne-few-thoughts.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Chris Huhne - a few thoughts. The big story of the last couple of days (apart from the discovery of Richard III in a car park) is that Chris Huhne now faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice after getting his then-wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding points for him by pretending she was driving their car in 2003 when it was actually him driving it. A few rather random thoughts on this:. Apparently Huhne is the first ever.
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giroscope: Tribalism is for football fans - not politicians
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/tribalism-is-for-football-fans-not.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Tribalism is for football fans - not politicians. The catalyst for this post was a Facebook comment by my friend Chris Brooke of Virtual Stoa. Fame, but the issue has been bugging me for a while, so it's time to get to the bottom of whether political "tribalism" has any place in progressive politics. Chris's comment referred to a recent post on the soft-left Shifting Grounds. Blog by a variety of authors including Andy Harrop (director of the Fabian Society. Agreeem...
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giroscope: Who killed the netbook?
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Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Who killed the netbook? Almost exactly 5 years ago on this blog, I asked whether Asus's Eee PC netbook was a Toshiba Libretto for the 2000s. And it turns out that it was for the late 2000s, but not for much longer in the - 2010s - the Guardian. Reports that most manufacturers have now stopped making netbooks. Windows. Now I'm confused about this and I follow computers pretty closely, so what chance have the general public got? Steve - I think theres something in tha...
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giroscope: On the death of Mrs T - part 1
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-death-of-mrs-t-part-1.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). On the death of Mrs T - part 1. Anyone with their head out from under a rock today will have heard that Margaret Thatcher has died. There is a lot more to write here but I don't have enough time or energy to finish this off right now so I will write more tomorrow. watch this space. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the death of Mrs T - part 1. Brother Typewriter's Golf Ball. In Love With These Times In Spite Of These Times.
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giroscope: "Silly season" over? Not for Peter Kellner it isn't...
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/silly-season-over-not-for-peter-kellner.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Not for Peter Kellner it isn't. With things looking rather bleak for their particular brand of carbon-coby Toryism, the neo-Blairites have been forced to retreat into a fantasy world to avoid confronting the harsh truth that their project is in very poor health - perhaps DOA. The most obvious (and amusing) of the Blairite fantasists is Telegraph. And Kellner's latest YouGov column, " David Cameron's Happy New Year 2016. Probably not. Will they be 4 points behind.
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giroscope: Congratulations to the "Elite: Dangerous" team
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2013/01/congratulations-to-elite-dangerous-team.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). Congratulations to the "Elite: Dangerous" team. Great news from the world of gaming! Has met its Kickstarter funding target. Of £1.25m and will now be going ahead. I like computer games but haven't really played any on a regular basis since Privateer 2. One of the greatest games of all time, and certainly the greatest 1980s home computer game - I make a very big exception. Is being developed by Frontier Developments. Kickstarter is providing a platform for crowd-fun...
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giroscope: The US election and a cautionary tale for the right-wing left
http://giroscope.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-us-election-and-cautionary-tale-for.html
Sign On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9). The US election and a cautionary tale for the right-wing left. Because they had institutions capable of distorting reality to fit that platform. I'm thinking here of FOX News, the whole network of right-wing think tanks, and all the rest of the conservative apparatus. (There is a very good discussion of the development of "movement conservatism" from the 1960s onwards in Paul Krugman's book The Conscience of A Liberal. Is first class and I can understand why some le...