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Top 10 Books People Buy But Don’t Read
The Top 10 series in The Independent on Sunday’s colour supplement New Review started with the “Top 10 Worst Beatles Songs”. This Sunday’s “Top 10 Misquotations” has already gone to press. But I still need your help with the following weeks.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 11:05 am
What to do without Google Reader?
Most of you won’t know what I’m talking about, but those of us internet fogeys who use Google Reader have just had a reminder that Google is “ceasing to support” it from 1 July.
It used to be called a blog aggregator, and for a while before Twitter it was the main way in which I [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 6:28 pm
“Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster?”
Number 940 in my series of Questions To Which The Answer Is No was asked by Philip Hoare, in the Guardian, on the 80th anniversary of the monster’s invention last week.
Number 941 is on the front of today’s Guardian (pictured):
Was 1963 the start of modern life?
Thanks to Patrick Hennessy.
Number 942 was asked by the Daily Mail:
Maggie: The masterpiece. [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 3:48 pm
Desert Island Discs
The democracy of blogs and Spotify mean that we can all be on Desert Island Discs.
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Monday, 6 May 2013 at 7:27 pm
David Davis on a “mandate referendum”
No, I didn’t know what it meant either. David Davis explains it well in this transcript of his interview with Andrew Neil on the BBC’s Sunday Politics. But it is the politics of fruitcake and David Cameron will, of course, have nothing to do with it. Politely.
AN: Joining me now from his Altrincham constituency, former [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 9:12 pm
Sunday reading
To try to impress the new editor I have three articles in The Independent on Sunday today.
In the political column I suggest that the local election results on Thursday were not good enough to give Labour any confidence of winning a majority at the next general election.
This is partly on the grounds that the UKIP [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 8:03 pm
Adonis on UKIP, Clegg and Heathrow
Andrew Adonis has been interviewed by The Times today (pay wall). Full of good stuff, as ever, including:
You deal with UKIP not by abusing its leaders but by tackling the causes of its protest vote: too few good jobs, a crisis of youth inactivity and a weak, remote government with no plans, which can’t get [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 6:03 pm
Labour lost more votes than Tories as UKIP surged
Mark Pack, the excellent Lib Dem blogger, pointed this out yesterday, but it took a while for me to make sense of the figures. He compared the BBC’s Projected National Share of the vote for this week’s local elections with last year’s local elections.*
_________ 2012 2013 Change
Conservative 31% 25% -6
Labour [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 4:23 pm
An open letter to Melanie Phillips
The Daily Mail columnist feels that conservative thinkers are being stifled by a deadening left-wing consensus. I beg to differ…
By C J Schuler | Battle of Ideas, Eagle Eye | Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 1:11 pm
Leadership, New York Times style
It has slowly dawned on Americans that their system of government has a blocking minority in the Senate, in that a three-fifths majority is needed to overcome a filibuster (talking until time runs out and a bill falls). This has produced a lot of displacement commentary, in the form of criticisms of Barack Obama for [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 10:44 pm
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