2014年10月1日 星期三

2014-10-02 U.K. Spotlight


China's biggest political challenge since Tiananmen in 1989  Financial Times
The demonstrations on the streets of Hong Kong present China with its biggest political challenge since the pro-democracy movement was crushed in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989. The parallels between the demonstrations in Hong Kong now and ...


   


Hong Kong protesters use a mesh network to organise  New Scientist
Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection. Since the pro-democracy protests turned ugly over the weekend, many worry that the Chinese government would block ...


   

  BBC News   
World wildlife populations halved in 40 years - report  BBC News
The global loss of species is even worse than previously thought, the London Zoological Society (ZSL) says in its new Living Planet Index. The report suggests populations have halved in 40 years, as new methodology gives more alarming results than in a ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Scotland is finally ready for a Tory revival  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
This evening the Scottish Conservatives will hold their annual drinks bash here at Tory party conference in Birmingham. Whereas these gatherings usually involve the participants downing gin and tonic and trying to make the best of the news that they have ...


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Governing by announcement leaves us all out in the cold  Financial Times
Government by announcement is now characteristic of British politics. The goal is to make statements that will receive favourable media coverage. There is little perception of any need to follow up on these announcements, or consideration of how they might ...


   

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Sharks can be 'social or solitary'  BBC News
The most feared predators in the sea have individual personalities that affect how readily they socialise, according to a study by UK scientists. Individual sharks, studied in groups of ten, showed consistent social habits - either forming groups with other sharks ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Obama is rewriting history on Isil. It won't wash  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Given how completely Barack Obama's foreign policy has been upended by the rise of Isil in Syria, it is not surprising that the president should try and gloss over the scale of his own miscalculation when it came to the threat posed by the jihadists – but that ...


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Federalism fit for a kingdom  Financial Times
The outcome of the Scottish referendum has left Britain's political establishment in a state of alarm and confusion. Although the Yes side lost the vote for independence, the outcome was, to misquote the Duke of Wellington after the battle of Waterloo, “a damn ...


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Apple's Irish tax deal may be state aid, says Europe  BBC News
The European Commission (EC) has told Ireland it believes it gave illegal state aid to Apple. It has published a letter, originally sent to the country in June, accusing it of helping the computer giant through special tax arrangements. The EC is looking at ...


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Boris Johnson versus Theresa May: only one can be the next Tory leader  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
"You have permission to purr," said the Mayor of London. So, of course, they did. The Tory faithful in the Birmingham ICC this lunchtime were treated to perhaps the quintessial Boris Johnson speech – a half-hour masterclass in the finely crafted line, the deft ...


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