Warnock's dilemma
or, why did no-one comment on my post?
Anthony Zacharzewski
Half empty? Half full? Why can't it be both?
Wendell notes two AP stories on US attitudes to the forthcoming year. One is very downbeat, the other very upbeat – but based on the same poll data.
Selective Amnesia
Glenn Greenwald attacks the lack of accountability in the American media, particularly in relation to the Iraq war.
The benefits of immigration in the US
From Salon.com.
Twenty-five percent of the technology and engineering companies started in the United States between 1995 and 2005 had at least one key co-founder who was an immigrant, reports a new study from researchers at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. The researchers estimate that these
Petition the PM
Downing Street is running an new online petitions page. Here is a selection of open petitions.
All the State of the Union addresses
Available in HTML here.
Daily Mail: Zero tolerance for criminals, mostly
The lead story on today’s Mail, which I read in the barbers’, expresses the usual spluttering outrage at a campaign by the Revenue to reduce the number of people who underpay their tax. So paying tax is added to obeying speed limits as a law that should be optional
Trust nobody. It's the British way
Martin Kettle in a Guardian article unpicks some new Eurobarometer surveys that suggest that the British trust less than anyone else in Europe. The EU, politicians, the media, corporations – they are all apprarently a bunch of lying scumbags.
Travel notes: Oxton, Wirral
Visiting the in-laws in Oxton on the Wirral (near Birkenhead), I found a good new coffee shop in Oxton village. Moose Coffee (perhaps called that because the premises used to be a hairdresser) is a New York-y place with pretty good coffee and a range of american style breakfasts. My
Boxing day walk in Brighton
The Guardian recommends a 3-hour, 3-pub walk from Patcham via Fulking and Poynings back to Patcham again.