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Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful

Aspring Panda November 1, 2013

The 1979 UK top ten hit by punk band Ian Dury and the Blockheads listed a whole raft of reasons to be cheerful: • Rock ‘n’ Roll singer Buddy Holly • The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia • Scammell Lorries (A British company who built heavy lorries, specifically an 18-wheeler lorry) • Equal voting rights for men and women • Little Richard’s 1956 hit “Good Golly Miss Molly” • Picc... »

TINA: There is no alternative – or is there?

TINA: There is no alternative – or is there?

Aspring Panda September 12, 2013

The murmur of debate and discussion concerning the proper use, and increasing abuse, of their citizens’ personal data by governments has risen to a crescendo since the first of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the US’s NSA PRISM and the UK’s GCHQ Tempora programmes were publicied by the Guardian in June 2013. Alongside that there has been a steady stream of continued exposure of the way in which... »