Posts Tagged snow
Terminal illness
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Politics on 23/12/2010
Hands up who thinks BAA stands for British Aviation Authority? Well put them down, you’re all wrong. The acronym has meant nothing after BAA was privatised in 1986 and since 2006, it has been owned by the Spanish consortium Ferrovial. The arctic chaos of this week has clearly shown that there are some infrastructures too important to abandon to private companies who prioritise profit before performance.
Plugging the WikiLeaks
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in America, Civil Liberty, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Politics on 02/12/2010
The WikiLeaks story has, along with Snowmaggedon, been the central theme of this week’s news. Opinions appear very sharply divided between those who think the leaks are ‘putting lives at risk’ and others who feel the goings-on of high politics should be accessible to all. The niggling questions are: do the leaks really matter at all and if so, who should bear the responsibility for a negative outcome?
Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks