Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-13-2010

[andrewducker]

• UK in talks with tax havens in bid to raise £10bn
  (tags: tax uk government)
• The Guardian article on the LibDems and tuition fees is engaging in hyperbole and half-truths
  (tags: education university uk government libdem)
• Schizophrenia may be caused by a virus embedded in our DNA.
  (tags: schizophrenia psychology medicine research health brain)
• Last year 379,030 people had benefits withdrawn for failing to seek work.
  (tags: benefits welfare uk labour)
• Lib Dems discussed abandoning tuition fees pledge to form a coalition _before_ the election.
  (tags: elections libdem government uk education)
• At-a-glance: Benefits overhaul
  (tags: benefits welfare uk)
• Government scraps anonymity pledge for rape accused. And about time too.
  (tags: rape government)
• Investment bankers are to have their company phones tapped. But not their personal ones. Completely pointless.
  (tags: banking mobile)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Good Lord I've been obsessed with politics recently.

Need more cool technology news! I'm looking forward to seeing what on earth FB are announcing on Monday...

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

You mean this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/12/facebook_november_15_announcement/ ?

Not that exciting really if they're right.

[andrewducker]

Facebook has nearly as many users as the current webmail providers combined. It would be a fair bit of an upheaval if they started providing their own email. Not industry-changing outside of email, necessarily, but certainly interesting.