Category: Rant
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Yes, I know. (And Google SEO)
Things that made me amused today. Warning: this post is of a boring, slightly geek bent.
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Avoiding The Archers
I cannot begin to tell you how much I value listening to Radio 4. I know that everyone likes to think their preferred news source is devoid of any bias, political or other, and those with ‘higher class’ sources of news usually criticise the shortsightedness of such a view: Star reader: “Can you flippin’ believe […]
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BT vs BBC: an exercise in confusing service providers' responsibilities with those of content providers
So much for the democratisation of the internet
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When is a deep-seated problem in society not a deep-seated problem in society?
Is racism inherent to humanity? A societal construct? A belief we are taught? Is it possible to be untaught? Are some people genuinely completely devoid of racism, or are we all complicit in the racism that is a part of our society whether we own that belief ourselves or not?
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Do you know why Polish men are taking your jobs?
Dear British builders, do you know why Polish men are taking your jobs? It’s because of your reputation.
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Boom / bust
I don’t have an issue getting my head around the fact that the global economy appears to be collapsing around us; it seems logical that the economy is choking in proportion to the product of the frequency of the boom-bust cycle and the extent to which the previous boom ‘boomed’. Visualise a graph of boom […]