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Jon Bright (London, OK): Yesterday, as I was hurrying out the door, I noticed an icWales article about Paul Murphy, and stuck up a brief blog about it. One line caught my eye slightly: he has been made minister for “Digital inclusion”, in the Ministry of Justice. What responsibilities will this new minister have? Google […]

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): I’m just back from a short trip to New York. I hope to write something about the Obama phenomenon. On the plane back with Tony Curzon Price we were reflecting on the hyper-sexualisation of girls in Britain and whether this should be a theme for OurKingdom (From ‘No Sex please we […]

Right click this link to download to your computer or the blue arrow to listen. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, by far the easiest way to get it, click here: This week we featured: Kenyan Blogger Daudi…

Jon Bright (London, OK): Last week we covered the Welsh Assembly’s preemptive action on ID cards - guaranteeing that they will not be needed for access to devolved public services. I’ve since been in touch with Phil Booth of No2ID, who proved why research should be done before rather than after - this is, apparently, […]

Jon Bright (London, OK): OK has been slightly slow on to this, but it is worth recording here that last Wednesday the Welsh Assembly has, in the best traditions of the war on terror, launched a pre-emptive strike on ID cards by passing a motion guaranteeing that they will not have any impact on health […]

I came across this “audio disclaimer” from Dave Slusher at the Evil Genius Chronicles.

Dave was already making podcasts when I did my first few back around Christmas 2004, and I would call tim an “old fashioned live-and-let-live techie”.

Here he describes his attitude to his programme. Enjoy.

[audio:http://mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20080122-evil-genius-chronicles-egc-disclaimer.mp3]

I promised to post a few more detailed thoughts about the Daily Roundup was going.

Roger Smith (London, JUSTICE): 2008 marks a decade since the Human Rights Act was passed, in those first carefree days of the Blair administration. Its anniversary will be marked by a politically charged row over the number of days that alleged terrorists can be detained before charge; a heavyweight battle over […]

No no no no no no NO !!!

That is NOT how you do banner adverts. Good web design does not include the concept of “Grey Space” created by putting an offset 250 pixel high advert above your top frame, pushing your entire web page down and leaving the most natural point for the eyes to land as grey as one of Mr Major’s lounge suits.

May I suggest you get a web designer, and put the responsible party in the stocks?

Sunny has upgraded Pickled Politics:

Wordpress upgrade
by Sunny at 8:27 am
I’ve done a big upgrade of Wordpress and have had to wipe all the previous files for various reasons. So if something doesn’t work properly, please list it below… thanks!

And the first thing that doesn’t work is …. the comments function to report […]