2014年9月2日 星期二

2014-09-03 U.K. Spotlight

  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
What went wrong with Conservative Party modernisation  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The supporters of David Cameron liked to pitch themselves as "modernisers". The thought was that by the mid-2000s the Conservative Party and its presentation of itself was out of date and had become self-indulgent, preferring internal arguments and ...


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Labour cannot be complacent about Ukip  Financial Times
The UK Independence party turns 21 years old this month and has cause to celebrate. The insurgent party won a national election in May and last week enjoyed the most significant coup in its history when Conservative MP Douglas Carswell defected to Ukip ...


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  BBC News   
Pupils begin 'tough' new national curriculum  BBC News
Millions of children in England will begin a "tough" new national curriculum when they return to school this week. Five-year-olds will learn fractions and computer coding, while those in early secondary school will have to study at least two Shakespeare plays.

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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
As the Right commits suicide, the future may belong to the Left after all  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Who owns the future? Until recently I believed the answer was relatively obvious. The 2008 crash marked the formal end of big-cheque statism. The insecurity generated by the recession that followed had also given rise to a new small-c conservatism.

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Financial savvy is not something schools can teach  Financial Times
The financial industry is wicked. It is packed full of clever people – mostly psychopaths according to one contributor to the Financial Times letter page – who will stop at nothing to rip off every pensioner and child trust fund holder in the land. How? Mainly by ...


   

  BBC News   
Uber banned in Germany by Frankfurt court  BBC News
A court in Frankfurt ruled that the firm lacked the necessary legal permits to operate under German law. It has emerged that the firm was told last week that its "low-cost" UberPop service could no longer take passengers and faced a fine if it continued.

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Why does the internet hate women so much?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Over the last few days, intimate pictures of hundreds of female celebrities have been stolen from file storage "in the cloud". Some of these pictures have since been published online. While some have suggested a breach in Apple's iCloud storage, the truth is ...


   


The wisest choices depend on instinct and careful analysis  Financial Times
M oneyball, Michael Lewis's 2003 book on the science of picking baseball teams, was perhaps written to distract himself from his usual work of attacking the financial services industry. Even after downloading the rules of baseball, I still could not fully ...


   

  BBC News   
Ebola response lethally inadequate, says MSF  BBC News
A global military intervention is needed to curb the largest ever Ebola outbreak, according to the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres. In a damning criticism of world leaders, it says the global response has so far been "lethally inadequate". The charity ...


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  New Scientist   
No more pause: Warming will be non-stop from now on  New Scientist
Enjoy the pause in global warming while it lasts, because it's probably the last one we will get this century. Once temperatures start rising again, it looks like they will keep going up without a break for the rest of the century, unless we cut our greenhouse gas ...


   

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