Conservatives planning to unveil their ‘break-up BT’ policy tomorrow in some long press release, so political sources say. Will be all about allowing other phone companies to share BT’s ducts to connect up homes (as briefed to the Financial Times earlier this week) even where BT has paid out to laid down fast fibre...
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Archive for February, 2010
After the BBC, more on BT
Andy Duncan, take 2
Andy Duncan has been complaining that he was misquoted in Vegas, and that he didn’t say that a C4-Five deal was inevitable. So, in the spirit of never wrong for too long, Friday’s posting is amended…
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Tower Block Labour
Austin Mitchell nicely set back the Labour cause about ten years with his performance on Channel 4′s excellent Tower Block of Commons. Four MPs (including, not very impartially two Tories) were sent to live on tough council estates. Yet, while Mark Oaten, Iain Duncan Smith and Tim Loughton knuckled down to the rules of...
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Tubeview: I know what he did last summer
Jack’s back to save the world (America) for the eighth time … but this time he’s working with a muppet – not literally, Gonzo and Bunsen would make rather good Russian nuclear scientists – no, Freddie Prinze Jnr. Before you think this is a 24 slagging session, it’s not.
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Strangled by the telephone cord
Aha, it’s the information super-hype-way, a concept not seen in politics for far too long. Tip of the hat to George Osborne for bringing it back — there must be an election coming. First invented by Al Gore, then pinched by Tony Blair in 1996 and Gordon Brown as recently as last year, it...
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