Archive for January 2008
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The year ahead: will our rights be swamped by the language of citizenship?
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 [...]
Daily Telegraph Web Design Disaster
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?
Pickled Politics … oooops !
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 [...]
Jack Straw and values (British?)
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Trevor Smith tipped me off about Jack Straw’s appearance before the House of Lords Committee on the constitution last October. I quoted Straw’s view of our democracy - the executive proposes, parliament disposes and no nonsense about Athens - in December. Re-reading the full transcript read it here as a pdf [...]
Brown’s turn?
Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Gordon Brown’s “Don’t call it a relaunch” is now fully underway. The scene was set by his long interview with John Mulholland and Nicholas Watt in Sunday’s Observer. Three things are striking about it from an all-kingdom point of view. Given its panoramic range, where are the great constitutional themes Brown [...]
Columnists and Reporters are the new “bloggers”
I’m coming to the conclusion that one of the biggest threats to the accuracy and reputation of news-based blogs is when bloggers quote “mainstream” newspapers and websites verbatim without doing the necessary fact checking to make sure the newspaper reports are accurate.
The problems are precisely those of which bloggers are accused (sometimes with justification) - [...]
New Look for the BBC Homepage
I haven’t seen anyone else in the Political Blogging space mention it, so I thought I would draw you attention to the new trial webpage design for the BBC website.
You can view the design here. Here is a screenshot:
