The Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, delivered a speech at Demos last week titled On Fairness. You can read the speech here, and listen to audio from the event here.
- Podcast: Social Change and Contemporary Art Demos Podcasts In June, I spoke at an event launching Peckham Spaces' Peckham TV project. We've put together a podcase of the event, including excerpts of what I and the participating artists, The People Speak and Harold Offeh said. The podcast also includes some of the discussion with members of the audience. continue reading on 4th September 2008
- McCain to Obama - 'a job well done' McCain's team finally seem to have understood that constant negative campaigning can end up harming their own nominee. While McCain famously declared that Mitt Romney's loss [in the Iowa caucuses] was due to his negative campaigning his own team were busy shafting everyone else - Romney included. But in a change of tact, McCain has released the following video (watch it after the jump), congratulating Obama on his nomination on such an historic day (try not to be too cynical) and on a job well... continue reading on 29th August 2008 Comments (1)
- Things can only get better. That, or the world collapses The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been switched on. And we're apparently still here. Over at the Sci Foo camp, I bumped into Brian Cox, Physicist and former keyboard player for D:Ream. He works at CERN and told me about a science NGO I hadn't come across before. "Sane Science" are one of the organisations who have been, Cassandra-like, ringing alarm bells about the LHC. They point us back to the beard-stroking whimsy of the few scientists who once said that there just might be a... continue reading on 28th August 2008 Comments (1)