Ignore me. I’m talking shite. More quality journalism from the BBC (cf From fact to headline: how the media distorts news): Headline: Brown ‘may not face leader vote’ Okay, so this presumably means that a) the other potential candidates are unlikely to stand or b) that if he is the only candidate he will be… Continue reading How elections work
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The SNP: the choice of all trade union bashing evangelical homophobes
Do you think, when Alex Salmond explained that he was against the Union, Brian Souter thought he meant something else? I suspect the SNP have made a bad mistake here; they’ve just aligned themselves with one of the most toxic figures in British business today. The gloves can start to come off now. UPDATE: PinkNews… Continue reading The SNP: the choice of all trade union bashing evangelical homophobes
Better racism through technology
Those nutty Finns. When they aren’t going around scarring people’s childhoods with disturbing cartoons about Moomins (okay, okay, and inventing Linux), they are coming up with zany new wheezes like this one: Intopii has opened Naama Candidate Finder to provide voters an easy, entertaining, and fast way to choose suitable candidate for Finland’s parliamentary elections… Continue reading Better racism through technology