I’ve been concentrating on other things recently, so I haven’t had time to post about the new limits on demonstrations around parliament. Luckily, Robin over at perfect.co.uk has summarised it all nicely so I don’t have to. But looking at it in a wider context, it’s just one more step along a path which increasingly… Continue reading Eroding Freedoms
Day: 17 June 2005
G8 climate plans ‘watered down’
This is all very disappointing. A leaked copy of a document on climate change being drafted for the G8 summit suggests plans have been watered down. A version of the communiqué leaked in May treated climate change as a fact and pledged money to energy projects. In the new version the words “our world is… Continue reading G8 climate plans ‘watered down’
Newspapers vs the BBC
An interesting article from the Economist discussing the fall in newspaper circulation and largely blaming the BBC’s web site for this. It is the success of the BBC’s news website that most troubles newspapers. Its audience has increased from 1.6m unique weekly users in 2000 to 7.8m in 2005; and its content has a breadth… Continue reading Newspapers vs the BBC