Big Blog

Arts & Culture
Banking
Biological Science
Blog Watch
Celebrities
Computer Games
Computer Security
Cricket
Data Privacy
Developer
Domain Names
E-commerce
Gadgets
General Science
Handhelds
IP & Patents
Java
Linux
Mobile Technology
Movie Reviews
MP3
Nanotech
Online Auctions
Online Legal Issues
Open Source
Personal Finance
Photography
Quirky
Robotics
Search Engines
Space Science
Top Internet
Top Stories
Top Tech
Video Games
Web Developer
Webmaster Tips
XML & Metadata
{Home}



politicians: search

Politicians, scribes play cricket for a cause

Politicians and journalists in a north Gujarat district played a 19-overs-a-side match Tuesday, inaugurating a 27-day cricket tournament to nurture talented youth in the region.

Politicians rally behind hacker Gary McKinnon

British politicians are coming out in support of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon to prevent him serving a jail term in the US.

18 politicians join BNP

A total of 18 politicians, including three former ministers and six lawmakers and leaders of Jatiya Party, Progressive Democratic Party and Awami League, joined the BNP yesterday.

This politicians and blogs thing

Something I've not seen before, a development in political blogging (that is the use by a politician of a blog, not the sort of thing I do which is the use of a blog to excoriate politics and politicians):

Feuding Somali politicians seen to fuel piracy

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The growth in piracy off Somalia is being aggravated by the country's feuding politicians and the United Nations should send peacekeepers there quickly, the African Union's top diplomat said on Thursday.

Number of career politicians in Cabinet is 'deeply unhealthy', says minister Hazel Blears

A ‘deeply unhealthy’ number of Government posts are being handed to career politicians, one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Cabinet colleagues will warn today.

Personal Branding and Corporate Politicians

Many corporate executives in their eagerness to get on the Web 2.0 bandwagon remind me of waffling politicians. Sure they are beginning to spout the right lingo but when it comes to follow through, beware.

Careers:Personal Branding and Corporate Politicians

Many corporate executives in their eagerness to get on the Web 2.0 bandwagon remind me of waffling politicians. Sure they are beginning to spout the right lingo but when it comes to follow through, beware.

Blears hits out at 'career politicians'

Cabinet minister Hazel Blears is set to say that a "deeply unhealthy" number of government posts are being handed to career politicians.

Abuse of politicians' DNA feared

Two scientists called for ground rules to prevent an abuse of genetic information about U.S. presidential candidates, which will likely available in four years.

Abuse of politicians' DNA feared

Boston -- Two scientists called for ground rules to prevent an abuse of genetic information about U.S. presidential candidates, which will likely available in four years.

Abuse of politicians' DNA feared

Two scientists called for ground rules to prevent an abuse of genetic information about U.S. presidential candidates, which will likely available in four years.

NEWS: UK politicians rally behind hacker

The British hacker who is facing extradition to the US over allegations that he hacked in American military computers has finally got a glimmer of hope.

Top 10 Videogame Politicians

It's election time, and it occurs to us that somehow, videogame political figures are universally stupider than the ones we're stuck with in real life. Even the ten best are far worse than the guy you won't be voting for this year.

Mumbai bloggers attack politicians

The co-ordinated bloody assaults by a handful of armed men on Mumbai's Taj Palace hotel, the Trident-Oberoi hotel, a busy railway station and a Jewish religious centre have received extensive coverage not just from the international mainstream media but also from citizen journalists.

Blears blames cynical blogs and career politicians for voters' apathy

Hazel Blears: 'We are witnessing a dangerous corrosion in our political culture.' Photograph: Christopher Thomond

Minister takes swipe at growth of career politicians ??" and muck-raking bloggers

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the The Scotsman site.

Study: Candidates Really Do Keep Promises

Politicians have a nasty reputation for never keeping campaign promises, but most do actually put their money, or at least their efforts, where their mouth is, a new study finds.

Cross-party attempt to fight extradition of British hacker

Senior politicians from all parties are urging the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, to halt the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon unless she receives a guarantee from the US that he will be allowed to serve any sentence imposed in Britain.

Google And Yahoo May End Deal; Not Worth An Antitrust Lawsuit

With various politicians pushing the Justice Department to slam Google on antitrust charges (it's worth noting, of course, that Rep. Joe Barton, who seems to be leading the anti-Google charge, just so happens to have received an awful lot of campaign money from AT&T -- Google's arch nemesis), it appears that Google and Yahoo's attempt to broker a deal with the Justice Department may be falling through.

Mideast focus: Banking blueprint reviewed

As financiers and politicians read the last rites for the western investment banking model, financial houses across the Middle East are looking at what it means for their own business strategy.

Bank's great rate gamble

Ministers and opposition politicians piled moral and political pressure on banks to pass on yesterday's stunning 1.5% cut in interest rates to borrowers, as fears over the deepening recession prompted drastic action to stimulate the economy.

Who's winning the election? Live blog coverage of election night

I expect, like most politicians, Obama will attempt to tinker with a few things in the first few months, then settle-in to a merely pragmatic survival mode.


Search News:


Copyright © 2001-2008 Jonathan Hedley