Published at Channel 4 News.
Shane Richmond at The Telegraph
Flush! Ah-ahhhhhhh!
This would mean an officially endorsed devaluation of sterling Via The Guardian
Updated: 12th December 2008 1pm
Channel 4 Factcheck checks out whether Gordon has actually saved the world
Benjamin Cohen reports for C4 News here on this
Updated 3pm 8th Dec 2008
Analysis from John Ozimek at The Register
Updated 4pm
And a sample of wider opinion from Blurred Clarity
Not-so-long-ago in the top-left corner of Wales three men made a railway. It wasn’t a very long railway, or a very important railway, but, it did pass a marvellous, mechanical, mouse organ and a very saggy, old cloth cat. After the signalbox junction, you could sometimes see smoke and dragons above the goldmine they had dug and then given to the eccentric Mr Dinwiddy. By then on your journey, the moon, where the Clangers lived, would be right in front of you. After you had translated your peaceful intentions to Major Clanger using a swanee whistle, Graculus the great green bird could take you back to earth. You could wave at Noggin the Nog and Nogbad the Bad in their lands of the north on the way. You’d get home safely and decide the theory of mutually assured destruction was just mad – and that perhaps the world could be a better place than it sometimes is.
In memory of Oliver Postgate who concerned himself with telling good stories – and to Peter Firmin, who drew them, and the late Vernon Elliott, who made the music.
(The image is borrowed from the Dragon’s Friendly Society)
Updated: 4pm 8th December 2008
Round-up coverage
Published at Channel 4 News
Here, you can find reaction to the Internet Watch Foundation‘s decision to ask six UK internet service providers to restrict internet access to a Wikipedia page which published a picture of a Scorpions album cover first released in 1976. The Wikipedia page on the album is, or was, informative on the context to the image. This decision has also stoepd Uk web users editing or amending any entries on the collaborative encyclopedia’s site.
The Internet Watch Foundation respond to criticism of their action.
There’s also a retrospective report here on the battle for control of the internet from C4.
