BSkyB: whoever you vote for, Rupert Murdoch gets in
THERE is no qualitative difference between having a dominant interest in BSkyB and securing outright ownership of the satellite broadcaster. Either way, Rupert Murdoch gets to call the shots. Even so, Vince Cable is surely right to insist that News Corp’s £8.2bn offer for the BSkyB shares it does not already own be given a [...]
Fighting the cuts: the other possibilities
IF YOU, too, found yourself unable to trade equities the London Stock Exchange’s online platform Turquoise in the early hours of yesterday morning, you will doubtless share my horror to learn that an employee is under investigation, on suspicion of deliberate sabotage. The most likely explanation is that some disgruntled techie did whatever it is [...]
Roshonara Choudhry and Muslim alienation
YOU MUST have seen that drawing of Roshonara Choudhry by now, if only because every media outlet seems to be using it. If it comes even close to a reasonable likeness, she looks every bit the homely geek girl that her academic track record suggests her to be. The poor Bangladeshi kid from East Ham had [...]
Even I’m disappointed in Obama (and I didn’t have any hopes in him to begin with)
IT HAS always been difficult for European lefties to get their heads round US politics. A lot of that is down to the way that the same categories describe entirely different things. Party labels are largely meaningless, and terms like ‘far left’ are routinely applied to viewpoints that look harmlessly centrist from these shores. Our [...]
