Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

#greece #european #global #environment #ecology #technology #social #cultural #social #economics #politics #news

Food for Thought - February 2022

https://www.phidoc.net/food_for_thought.html

#angela_rayner #keir_starmer #labour #terrorism #crime #policing #populism #human_rights #politics #uk #global

#IT #algorithms #social_media #human_rights #meta #facebook #nick_clegg #zuckerberg #politics #democracy #global

If Nick Clegg wants to fix Meta, he needs to tackle its problem with human rights

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/19/nick-clegg-meta-human-rights-meta#comments

#eurovision #music #video #amanda_tenfjord #symi #dodecanese #greece #europe #global

Eurovision News (for those interested!)

Greece: The shooting of the video clip has been completed

https://eurovisionfun.com/en/2022/02/greece-the-shooting-of-the-video-clip-has-been-completed/

#keir_starmer #starmer #labour #labourism #plain_wrong #betrayal #drugs #defence #taxes #eu #politics #england #uk #global

Toot Redux (first published 26th February 2021)

#cressida_dick #boris_johnson #keir_starmer #yesterday #tories #labour #politics #global

#IT #cybersecurity #encryption #misleading #scaremongering #politics #government #uk #global

Cybersecurity and Human Rights Groups Warn UK Against Encryption Ban

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/02/cybersecurity-and-human-rights-groups-warn-uk-against-encryption-ban.html

#humour #cartoon #johnson #clown #guto_harri #westminster #politics #england #uk #global

#ralph_vaughan_williams #music #choral #mass #vinyl #hifi #retro #cambridge #uk #global

Vinylissimus splendidus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AbqQXYMB5o

#climate #pyroscape #fire #environment #australia #global

‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

#gray #johnson #cressida_dick #tories #MET #partygate #hot_air #balloons #music #politics #democracy #england #UK #global

#phidoc #books #literature #music #greece #symi

The Book of the Month for January is Ulysses by James Joyce and the Track of the Month is the Adagio from Gayane by Aram Khachaturian.

https://www.phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.html

https://www.phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.html

In addition, taking serious note of the escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine PHIDOC’s ‘Play It Again, Sam – Rewind Radio’ page now includes the first radio performance of Tom Stoppard’s play Rock ‘n’ Roll which references James Joyce at its very start. You can find it here (drilling down to the bottom):

https://www.phidoc.net/play_it_again_sam.html

“Thought I’d something more to say.”

#afghanistan #kabul #evacuation #tories #johnson #rosenfield #westminster #cricket #politics #sport #england #global

Boris Johnson’s chief of staff ‘spent day watching cricket’ just before Kabul fell

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/29/boris-johnsons-chief-of-staff-spent-day-watching-cricket-just-before-kabul-fell

#cressida_dick #MET #policing #privilege #competence #partygate #politics #london #england #uk #future

Toot Redux (first published 15th January 2022)

#greece #european #global #environment #ecology #technology #social #cultural #social #economics #politics #news

Food for Thought - January 2022

https://www.phidoc.net/food_for_thought.html

#IT #internet #broadband_speed #civic_engagement #politics #UK #global

Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/23/internet-access-decline-civic-engagement-uk

#crisis #hypocrisy #education #democracy #politics #westminster #london #england #uk #global

#mathematics #equations #theorems #fractals #chaos_theory #google #youtube #sumpter #uppsala #sweden #global

Equations built giants like Google. Who’ll find the next billion-dollar bit of maths?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/equations-google-billion-dollar-bits-of-maths#comments

#history #brexit #trump #politics #democracy #uk #usa #globalisation

Not So Ancient History

(lest we forget)

https://www.phidoc.net/cerisbusque_collection.html

#conservatives #tories #macmillian #heath #illegitimacy #fascism #politics #england #global