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Politics

• AS3, International

  TextField vs TextArea .. spot the difference

  07.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
  I suspected it might be something to do [...]

• International

  protestors “anti-china”?

  04.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Reading an article just now in the Observer, I read: “His comments came after yet another leg of the Olympic torch relay was disrupted by anti-China protesters yesterday”.
  So people using the occasion of the Olympics to protest against the repression of the Tibetan people are “anti-China”? I have not protested (unfortunately the torch passes through [...]

• International

  clinton: endless war part ii

  04.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I do try to refrain from adding to the vast swathes of the blogosphere devoted to the US elections but this:
  “I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran … In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be [...]

• International

  healthcare in america

  02.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have refrained from comment on the American primaries, because there’s quite enough out there. But the healthcare talk in the recent debate between Clinton and Obama leaves me mystified.
  Why is the health of a nation’s people considered an individual’s problem - requiring them to have personal health insurance or, if they need an expensive [...]

• Australian

  apology

  02.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  At last.
  An apology. You could - and I would - argue that the theft of the Stolen Generations is only a small part of the indignities, abuse and discrimination against the indigenous people of this country; the stolen continent itself is the elephant in the room.
  But it would be churlish not to give credit to [...]

• Australian, British

  rowan williams vs. the media

  02.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Letter responding to today’s Sydney Morning Herald that they are unlikely to print:
  I read the editorial in today’s Herald with exasperation. The “age-old division of church and state” referred to is sheer nonsense. The Queen is the head of the Church of England. The secular nature of the UK is enforced by the agnosticism of [...]

• International

  the politics of fuel

  02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yuval Rotem, Israeli ambassador to Australia, writes in his op-ed piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
  It is imperative to remember that the Israeli Government aids those Gazans who are suffering under Hamas, even though Hamas appears to be doing everything in its power to prevent the passage.
  Is this naive, or just disingenous? Israeli Prime Minister [...]

• British

  tories, tax and the centre ground

  01.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Perhaps the latest round of squabbling from the Tory grassroots (the front bench may have successfully rebranded themselves with the party’s official name, “Conservatives”, but the bulk of the party are the same Tories they always were) will provide the Liberals some tactical space - if they were willing to use it.
  ConservativeHome, that shining beacon [...]

• British

  clegg and the law of the meaningless opposite

  01.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In education policy, Nick Clegg appears to be a fully paid-up member of the cosy consensus of “choice” that the characterises the Labour and Tory front benches.
  In his first substantial speech since being elected to the Lib Dem leadership, he stakes out some ideological ground:
  There are two crucial dividing lines in British politics. First - [...]

• British

  clegg’s first steps

  01.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Nick Clegg’s first questions to Brown were on fuel bills: a social justice theme, and one which the Lib Dem spin doctors described as being closer to what the person in the street cares about, than Cameron’s ID card questions.
  As far as the response from the press, it looked like a good performance (as aggregated [...]

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