Government

Six Months in Jail For an 'Offensive' Facebook Status Update

Mark Hillary | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Government, Social Media, Jahangirnagar University, Social Networking, Muhammad Ruhul Amin Khandaker, Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh, Akram Chowdhury, Facebook, Censorship, China, Prime Minister, UK Tech News

If a government wants to be seen as democratic in this new era of online social discourse then they need to realise, you can't jail everyone who is critical of the prime minister - the jails would be full by tomorrow afternoon.

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2011 - The Year of Them Versus Us

Kit Marsters | Posted 12.29.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Jobseekers Allowance, Government, Politics, Islam, Unemployment, Great Britain, Esa, Christianity, Disability, Fatties, UK Politics News

2011: the year when a lot happened, according to the BBC. They're not wrong. The world has witnessed some terrible disasters. There have been uprisings and protests, some of them active to this day.

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Marginalizing Ron Paul

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Law, Congress, Terrorism, Economy, War, Ron Paul, Obama, Campaign, 2012, Government, Politics, Iowa Cacuses, Military, Fed, Federal Reserve, New York Times, Wall Street, Elections 2012, Ron Paul 2012, 2012 Election, Iowa Caucus 2012, Politics News

It should not be difficult for the New York Times editorial writers to treat Ron Paul as a profound and principled contributor to a much-needed national debate on the limits of federal power instead of attempting to marginalize his views beyond recognition.

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Pensions Debate: If Only We Knew Then...But Didn't we?

Phil Shanks | Posted 12.23.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Government, Public Sector Pensions, Unions, Local Authorities, Cuts, UK Politics, Pensions Debate, UK Politics News

I have been watching the debate on the future of public sector pensions with two hats on: the one of a self-made entrepreneur and the other as a member of the Greater Manchester Superannuation fund; a frozen relic of my time in Local Government.

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2011: A Tough Year But a Year of Achievements Nonetheless

Tony Baldry | Posted 12.22.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Government, Income Tax, Britain, National Health Service, State Pensions, Pensions, Child Tax Credit, Banking, Financial Crisis, European Union, Business, 2011, UK Politics News

Overall 2011 has been a challenging year not least with the financial crisis in the Eurozone, but a year of achievements nonetheless.

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Westminster Council's Phoney Parking Policy Should be Paid for Personally by the Councillors and Officers Implementing it

Peter Martindale | Posted 12.16.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Synagogues, West End Ward, Jews. Muslims, Officers, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Labour Party, Councillor, Lee Rowley, Residents, Government, London, Parking, Colin Barrow, Chinatown, Consultation, Capital, Candidates, Mayor of London, Church, Mayfair Soho, Marylebone, Bbc, Boris Johnson, Nhs, Mosques, Independent, Democracy, Temple, London Assembly, Entertainment and Hospitality Industry, Election, Westminster City Council, Transport for London, Businesses, Theatreland, Cabinet, Meeting Room, Conservatives, Ken Livingstone, Fitzrovia, UK Politics News

Westminster City Council is stubbornly implementing charges for late evening, early night-time and Sunday parking in the West End, against the advice of residents, businesses, the entertainment industry, and churches.

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Policy and Markets: How, Not If

Bruce W. Jentleson | Posted 12.15.2011 | Politics

Read More: Government, Laissez-Faire, Markets, Bi-Sectoralism, Politics News

The nature of 21st century international economic competition writ large is not about who can become the most laissez faire capitalist but who can forge optimal bi-sectoralist policy-market synergies.

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The Currency of Influence

Phil Shanks | Posted 12.15.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Social Enterprise, Government, Banking, Social Impact, Social Housing, Lending, UK Politics News

As an entrepreneur my relationship with banks is rather straightforward: I use them to achieve my business objectives. They, in turn, profit from my success. Therefore I struggle to understand why the government, as majority owner of RBS and Lloyds Banking Group, doesn't use its relationship to greater effect.

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There Goes the Republic

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.15.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Pentagon, Law, Congress, Bush, Money, Terrorism, Economy, Defense Authorization, War, Obama, Media, Government, House, White House?S Health Care Summit, History, Senate, Military, Ndaa, Security, Military-Industrial Complex, Torture, Politics News

The defense authorization bill that will soon become law is not only a disaster in the making for civil liberty but a blow to effective anti-terrorist police work.

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3 Themes of Gov 2.0 L.A. 2012

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 12.14.2011 | Technology

Read More: Government, gov20la, Engagement, Gov 3.0, Mobile, Politics, Technology, Emergency Services, Alan W. Silberberg, Santa Monica, Social Media in Emergencies, Cloud, Government 2.0, Crisis Communications, Technology News

We are past the point where the "Gov 2.0" in our name does more than evoke recognition. It is time to focus not on the theoretical but on the practical.

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Is This the Death of the Diet Industry?

Sue Thomason | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Government, Fat, Eating Disorders, Weight Loss, Diet, Obesity, Anorexia, Dieting, Calories, Ditchingdieting, Image Anxiety, Uk Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

So while I can now openly state my favourite quote: "The diet industry is the most successful failed business in the world," in certain circles and people will readily agree, half a decade ago this was thought of as weird, especially when said to my yo-yo dieting friends who would smile blankly and tell me how many calories were in the Jaffa Cake I was eating.

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Amid Portal Problems, USAJOBS Turns Frustration to Friendship With Social Media

Steve Ressler | Posted 12.12.2011 | DC

Read More: Social Media, Youtube, Govloop, Twitter, Usajobs, Facebook, Government, Career, Federal Government, Careers, Jobs, Video, DC News

When USAJOBS -- the online portal for federal jobs -- shut down for a few days in October to launch it's new website, government job seekers and recru...

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Growing Tomorrow's Leaders, One Land Title at a Time

Tim Hanstad | Posted 12.09.2011 | Education

Read More: Government, Usaid, India, Unesco, Millennium Development Goals, Tuition Fees, Primary-Education, Rural Development, Land Rights, Landesa, Odisha, Education News

It should be simple. A country ensures free education for all children, and everyone benefits. But we all know it's not that easy.

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Government U-Turn on NHS Targets

Joshua North | Posted 12.09.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: NHS Reforms, Health Secretary, Conservatives, Government, Nhs, Andrew Lansley, Labour, Uk, Uk-Nhs, UK Politics, Uk Diary, UK Politics News

"I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS." In the buildup to the 2010 election, David Cameron's big, serious face promised he wouldn't make NHS cutbacks. Eighteen months later, his government seems determined to dismantle the public sector. Breaking news: politicians lie.

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Double Trouble

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 12.08.2011 | Technology

Read More: Data Center Exchange, Information Technology, Gao Report, Government, Meritalk, Technology News

Sometimes, the challenges facing Federal IT -- and Washington writ large -- seem so complex as to be intractable. Other times the answers are so simple it makes my blood boil.

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All-American Socialism?

Jedediah Purdy | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

Read More: Government, Democracy, Medicare, Social Security, Socialism, New Deal, Politics News

Is socialism's value as a meaningless scare-word played out yet? If so, maybe we can give it a second chance as a real idea. By treating the word as an all-purpose insult, we've lost touch with essential strands of American political thinking.

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Government-Sponsored Sinner

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, White House, Welfare, Congress, Speech, Clinton, Obama, 2012, Government, House, Politics, Religion, Barack Obama, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Politics News

The driving faith of the GOP has become the notion that the toxic mixture of moral hypocrisy and unfettered greed is a formula for victory. Newt Gingrich could be their man.

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Big Society In Action? Brits Looking To Themselves To Solve Social Problems

PA | Posted 12.07.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Government, Social Attitudes, Housing Shortages, Uk News, Big Socity, National Centre for Social Research, UK Politics News

Britons are increasingly looking to themselves for solutions to social problems rather than the Government, a survey has found. Despite widespre...

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Overlooking the Failings of Animal Research

Michelle Thew | Posted 12.05.2011 | UK

Read More: Government, Neuroscience, Animal Rights, Ethics, Science, Freedom of Information Act, Animals, Buav, Newcastle University, Non-Human Primates; Animal Research, Animal Experiments, UK Politics;, UK News

Kirk Leech extols the alleged benefits of animal research. It is to be hoped that scientists bring greater intellectual rigour to their research than he does to his arguments.

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Education, Governments and Other Complications

Marianne Abib-Pech | Posted 12.02.2011 | UK

Read More: Government, Entrepreneurship Education, Youth Unemployment, UK News

Are we on the verge of an innovation revolution in Paris? Forget London, Hong Kong and the BRIC countries, the innovative awakening of the European ...

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Wikileaks' Spyfiles: Julian Assange Tells Phone Owners 'You're Screwed'

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 12.01.2011 | UK

Read More: Government, Gaddafi, Spyfiles, Libya, Uk News, Assange, UK Media, Surveillance, Spying, Security Companies, Wikileaks, News, Domestic Spying, UK News

Wikileaks has released the first swathe of 'spyfiles' documents from security companies around the world, in an effort to “shine a light" on a "secr...

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Public Sector Strike Heralds the Return of the Nasty Party

John Wight | Posted 12.01.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Government, Strike, Economic Crisis, UK Politics News

David Cameron's dismissal of the huge and unprecedented national public sector strike on 30 November with his statement that it proved "a damp squib" may well come back to haunt him before the next election.

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Oval Office Outs Overspending

Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 11.29.2011 | DC

Read More: Government, Real Estate Savings, Telework, Savings, Telework Exchange, DC News

Whether donkey or elephant, it's difficult to argue with these common-sense changes. That said, a couple of questions: Why do we need an Executive Order to make these common-sense changes?

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Public Sector Strikes Are Unnecessary

Tony Baldry | Posted 11.29.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Government, Public Sector Pensions, Pensions, Strike, Unions, Public Sector, Retirement, 30 November, UK Politics, UK Politics News

Of course everyone's pension is important to them but these issues are not going to be resolved as a consequence of the disruption which will be caused by the strikes on Wednesday. They are only going to be resolved by sensible discussion and negotiation.

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Calls To Increase Stamp Duty

PA | Posted 11.29.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Autumn Statement, Government, UK Parliament, Eurozone, Uk News, Housing, John Cridland, UK Politics News

The Chancellor has outlined plans to boost home ownership, but lenders and estate agents said the Government could have helped the market further by e...

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