Prospect interviews a Jihadist from Manchester, and Metafilter discusses.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha
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’d noticed, to be honest, but perhaps that’s what all washed up has-been xenophobes like to think.
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We are what we are
Tristram Hunt (author of the excellent Building Jerusalem) invokes Orwell in an excellent article in the New Statesman, on the nature of Britishness.
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The Rap Canterbury Tales
An amazing Rap version of some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. via BBC News.
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Make your own Google logo
Pretend you are the world’s leading search company. (via BoingBoing)
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The dinner and democracy set
The Power Inquiry, which is still going strong, is proposing that people have dinner with each other and talk about democracy. Raita and representation or polenta and people power? Link via Demos Greenhouse.
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Spinning the web
Hansard Society research paper on on-line campaigning in the recent UK election, Spinning the Web. Interesting in parts, but brings to mind Marx’s dictum.
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Envirowise up
Businesses can now find out how they could save money by being green, through the Government’s Envirowise web site. Link via Sussex Enterprise