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If you were watching Newsnight this evening, you’ll have seen a classic bit of technojournalist gush over a ‘revolutionary’ new browser called Flock, that’s going to sweep away MSIE and is created by these extraordinary people called geeks who eat pizza and … oh, forget it. Anyway, the free

Anna is walking! (admittedly, not in this shot)

Thought for the day from Rousseau’s Government of Poland. As long as luxury reigns among the great, cupidity will reign in all hearts. The object of public admiration and the desires of private individuals will always be the same; and if one must be rich in order to shine,

Someone sitting opposite me on the train is reading the Daily Express, house journal of paranoid xenophobes. He has that pinch-faced disapproving look that seems to go with reading the Express or the Mail. I see from the cover that the “World’s Greatest Newspaper” (© Daily Express) has put the

The outside is interesting, if occasionally a bit Bluewater (proverbs calligraphed into the outer walls). The setting, however, is magnificent.

Ludicrous self-publicist Robert Kilroy-Silk has quit the party he founded, Veritas. Apparently, the ideas he espoused, such as immediate withdrawal from the European Union, abolishing inheritance tax on houses and expelling all asylum seekers (except those with children) are “now part of the political mainstream”. I can’t say I’

I'm currently reading <a href="http://www.prezydent.pl/pre/en_index.php3">Aleksander Kwasniewski's</a> 2000 book "Our home – Poland" (PDF download available in <a href="http://www.prezydent.pl/media/our_home_Poland.pdf&

A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20795-2004Oct9.html">report</a> in the Washington Post on partisan rows over election procedure proves once again the old legal maxim – "No-one should be judge in his own case".

There's an interesting and detailed profile of John Kerry in the New York Times magazine (and online <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/magazine/10KERRY.html?oref=login">here</a>). It is, to use a very <a href=

Both on <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/">Many to Many</a>: <ol> <li><a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/09/30/digital_xenophobia.php">Digital Xenophobia</a> <li&