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21 Aug 09

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)

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26 May 09

David Cameron: 'Fixing broken politics' speech: ePolitix.com

The full text of Conservative leader David Cameron's speech setting out his vision for reform of the British political system.

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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - A Faustian pact that backfired spectacularly

It is hard now to remember the mood in Britain as it was in 1997, as the 18-year period of Conservative rule ended and Tony Blair’s Labour party won in a landslide.

There was an overwhelming sense that it was time, that this young, articulate, handsome leader was the man for the moment. The mood extended everywhere: even Hove and Wimbledon, whose very names epitomise the tea-and-cucumber-sandwich classes, voted Labour. Among intellectuals, the embrace was close to universal.

Their feelings in 2009 were recently summed up in the London Review of Books by Ross McKibbin, the left-leaning Oxford historian: “Who would care if the Labour party, politically and morally decrepit as it is, lost the next election? Would anyone lose a night’s sleep knowing that the present government was no longer in charge of our futures?” And that was before the scandal over MPs’ expenses broke.

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