Monthly Archives: September 2007

Burma – The (Good) power of Religion

September 24, 2007
By Stephen
Burma – The (Good) power of Religion

As may of regular visitors will know, I am a huge supporter of Aung San Suu Kyi and the democracy movement in general in Burma (or Myanmar what ever you want to call it). Over the last few days Buddhists monks and nuns have started protesting against the regieme and have even called for its downfall! “A group calling itself the All Burma Monks Alliance urged ordinary people for the first time “to struggle peacefully against the evil military...

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Lib Dems want Referendum on EU

September 15, 2007
By Stephen

Okay this is a strange one. From a party thats normally very pro-Europe. The Lib Dems are now calling for a Referendum on British Membership of the EU! I know they wanted a referendum on the constitutional treaty, but not the current reform treaty so where does this come from? Ming had this to say “It is time to end the shadow boxing on Europe and to have an honest debate on the future of Europe.” Now for me,...

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Pol Sims

September 15, 2007
By Stephen

Well its official I am addicted to Political Sims, so I’m going to recommend two of them here. (They are the only two I play). The first is Politics UK which I blogged about before. This is an excellent game. Though I’ve only been playing not even a month, I’m now the Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Shadow Minister for Local Government and English Regions. This game is great fun, you get to write PR’s, policy...

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