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1521 days ago
She has £30m and a reputation as the country's finest female songwriter. She lives quietly, out of sight, by the river or the sea, and has released no music for 12 years, preferring to spend time with her son. She had no need to make another record (some thought she never would) but suddenly a new album is imminent By Adam Sweeting Published: 02 October 2005 Plenty has happened in the 12 years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods have transformed communications and entertainment; reality TV has made us fearful that we live in the most moronic country on earth, and England have won the Ashes. Kate Bush's views on these momentous developments are difficult to gauge, since she has turned the not giving of interviews into an art form, and, it would seem, doesn't even see her closest friends very often. It's possible that the outside world wouldn't have known she'd had a son, Bertie, in 1998, if Peter ...
1659 days ago
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that China is graduating four times as many engineers as the United States. (Japan, with less than half our population, graduates twice as many.) Yes, China has a far larger population, but the U.S. supposedly has a far superior educational system. Perhaps we did once, but we’re busy destroying it now. Indeed, the extremist edge of America’s religious right has instituted a war on science. The teaching of evolution, which most scientists accept as the foundation of modern biology, is under assault in classrooms from Kansas to Georgia to Pennsylvania.
1667 days ago
Barrett slams U.S. tech and tax policies Published: May 9, 2005, 4:58 AM PDT By Reuters TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack Attacking U.S. government policies on taxes, immigration and Internet access, Intel CEO Craig Barrett warned that the United States could be left behind when technology companies decide where to make their next big capital investments. Craig Barrett CEO, Intel With less than two weeks left as CEO of the world's largest chipmaker, the outspoken proponent of free trade and low corporate taxes said in an interview that Intel could save as much as $1 billion in taxes over 10 years by building its next factory outside of the United States, in a country such as Malaysia. Such a decision, which would be worth $5 billion or more to the host nation, could come in the next year, Barrett said, unless the company decides to upgrade one of its sites in the United States. "That weighs heavily on our minds, our ...1704 days ago
Sharon is war criminal says Livingstone Hugh Muir Friday March 4, 2005 The Guardian Ken Livingstone has reignited his dispute with Britain's Jewish leaders by launching a provocative attack on the "war criminal" Ariel Sharon. In a riposte to criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the London mayor accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and said its prime minister should be imprisoned. He also accused Israel of demonising Muslims. Writing in the Guardian, he again rejected accusations of anti-semitism arising from his confrontation two weeks ago with the Jewish newspaper reporter he likened to a German concentration camp guard. But while stressing his steadfast opposition to racism and his regard for the Jewish people, he accused Israel of spreading misinformation about the scale of anti-semitism in Europe, and seeking to silence critics by calling them anti-semitic. Mr Livingstone said: "Israel's expansion ...
1704 days ago
This is about Israel, not anti-semitism Not to speak out against this injustice would not only be wrong. It would ignore the threat it poses to us all Ken Livingstone Friday March 4, 2005 The Guardian Racism is a uniquely reactionary ideology, used to justify the greatest crimes in history - the slave trade, the extermination of all original inhabitants of the Caribbean, the elimination of every native inhabitant of Tasmania, apartheid. The Holocaust was the ultimate, "industrialised" expression of racist barbarity. Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz. That is why I detest racism. No serious commentator has argued that my comments to an Evening Standard reporter outside City Hall last month were anti-semitic. So I am glad that Henry Grunwald, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, ...
