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Nick Griffin on Question Time/ Image: NewsPics Ltd/BBC The aftermath of Thursday night’s Question Time, BBC1’s flagship current affairs show, is everywhere; from tabloids to broadsheets, Facebook to Twitter, blogs to bus stops. As I type, the BBC Trust is busy setting up ad-hoc committees to deal with appeals made against Griffin appearing on the [...] [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.806738&w=425&h=350&fv=] President Barack Obama made history last night by being the first American President to appear on late night television. The visit was part of his trip through California to sell his economic plan directly to the American people. Obama’s platform on Leno highlights the shift in White House attitudes—not like we needed more [...] When I first met Aya Haidar in 2007, she spoke with a resolute and proud tone when she affirmed, “I am Lebanese.” This unyielding tie with her homeland is what is most visible in her diverse exhibition, Crewel Stories, on show at the 198 Gallery in Herne Hill. The show uses discarded materials such as [...] White House Changes on Versionista By Anikka Weerasinghe A few weeks ago CBC published an online article about the release of the U.S. stimulus package. Accompanying it was a foreboding image of the White House with a dark and stormy sky in the background. I wasn’t sure what the picture was meant to represent, and similarly [...] Launched as a new project by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the Open Net Initiative (which monitors Internet filtering and surveillance), Herdict uses crowdsourcing to track global web accessibility. Users can report sites which don’t work, and can see in real-time if the problem is shared among others. The possibilities for quickly [...] |
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