2014

It’s not that Google has become the US’s second biggest spender lobbying – the US telcos, a notoriously ferocious lobby, are the biggest and their behaviour imposes it. It’s this: In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition. Many of the…

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OK, just to clear the schedule a bit, here’s a general books post. Fly By Wire: The Geese, The Glide, The ‘Miracle’ on the Hudson. Various readers recommended this one; being about aviation and by William Langewiesche it wasn’t a hard sell. The book is (obviously) about the US Airways A320 that ditched successfully in…

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This post is a response to readers’ input to the open newslist Daniel Davies mocked this guy, as having placed his bets on Camden staying deeply cool and missed out on the migration east. But he has a point. Our startup moved to Shoreditch in 2008, making us a relatively early one although not first-generation.…

Read More Shoreditch twats: not quite as bad as property developers

So I said you could hide a million-strong dole queue with enough bogus hairdressing and then it totally like happened. Shift in jobs market in 6 months incredible: on experimental ONS monthly figs 8% Aug (stuck for 4 yrs) to 6.6% in Feb pic.twitter.com/SFdhaLq0bn — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) April 16, 2014 Discussion follows. Fortunately it’s…

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