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Number 10 and Wordpress

By Murk | Published: August 13, 2008
Number 10 has modified their site to use WordPress, and it does look good. At first. Unfortunately, they’re not using the full power of WordPress – I note in particular that comments are switched off for everything at the same time that they’re talking about ‘dialogue’. What I find particularly amusing is that the first, most obvious link [...]
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Weasel Words from Number 10

By Murk | Published: April 29, 2008
Recently there was a petition to reduce the VAT on fruit juices with an aim to help people toward their ‘five a day’. I thought this too modest myself, if you really want people to eat healthily why not remove the tax totally, making up for it in other areas? It’s annoying that healthy is [...]
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Georgia

By Murk | Published: February 3, 2005
An odd conflux of news this morning. Overnight, in Georgia, the Prime Minister was found dead in his flat following a gas leak. Just six hours earlier in the neighbouring Dagestan, a deputy interior minster was shot as he drove home in his car. Probably a coincidence, but it gave me a little jolt this morning – especially [...]
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