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UK Politics <div id="blq-no-js-banner"><p>For a better experience on your device, try our <a href=" site</a>.</p></div> Accessibility links BBC navigation UK Politics In association with RSS feed Advertisement 8 April 2014Last updated at 17:28 ET Miller 'devastated' by expenses row Culture Secretary Maria Miller says she is "devastated" that she has let her constituents down, amid growing pressure on her to resign. UK-Ireland future 'built on trust' Irish President Michael D Higgins hails the "warm and enduring" links with Britain in a special address to Parliament. IMF: UK to lead G7 growth in 2014 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the UK economy will grow by 2.9% in 2014, while global growth will be 3.6%. 716 Our Experts Article written by Nick Robinson Nick Robinson Political editor More from Nick Where Miller story is heading 5 hours ago Maria Miller has made the apology she failed to make in her thirty two second appearance in the Commons. Read full article Read full article

Spying begins on UK web users - Short Sharp Science Paul Marks, technology correspondent We reported last week on plans to enforce copyright law by forcing internet service providers to spy on consumers to detect and report every piece of copied music, movies, e-books, games and software. Now one UK ISP, Virgin Media, is trialling some of the technology needed to do that on about 1.6 million of its customers. Provided by Detica, a subsidiary of defence firm BAE Systems, the system is being used to try and gauge the size of the alleged piracy problem. Whenever it finds a data packet that matches, it will extract the code these protocols use to identify the contents of the packet. CView will then compare that code with a database of "musical fingerprints" to identify any music being shared, allowing it to work out if the data packet infringes copyright. As a result, Virgin will find out how much file-sharing traffic is infringing copyright, and what the most-pirated tracks and albums are, the Register reports.

Politics April 16th, 2014 11:14 An American verdict on the plan to saw Britain in half: 'You must be mad' If we lose this, we're all in trouble It’s amazing what you can learn under a haunted Irish mountain. As we chatted, he revealed how he worked on Wall Street, but was now based in Switzerland. Politics In Spires Schools Archives - Politics in Spires The divide between subjects taught in the school classroom and university-level research is often exaggerated. Someone between 16-18 would be familiar with many themes addressed by Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR). Still, some content, and especially research methods, would be completely new. Articles published in this series are part of a pilot scheme to bridge this divide. The conversation pointed to many similarities. These discussions were wide ranging and in response to an introduction to diverse research themes, the 6th form students raised a number of questions: Why do international powers intervene in certain situations and not in others? The posts in this series, written by academics and postgraduates, attempt to answer some of these questions, and highlight features of current research in these areas. Politics In Spires Schools posts: Stuart White: ‘Towards a citizens’ inheritance?”

Home - Law Commission Global Voices Online » UK: Tracking government information on transparency websites Now is a more liberating time than ever to hold those in power accountable. Every day, more people in the world begin to use publishing tools for free, have the means of quicker communication and have better access to their government's data. If you live in a part of the world where being open is difficult, sites like Global Voices Advocacy help advise bloggers on safety and rights to freedom of expression. Citizens if the United Kingdom are lucky to be able to use the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request specific information held by public authorities. Nonetheless the British are a little behind the US: just as it took a little while to catch up with Freedom of Information (FoI), the UK government has only recently taken the lead of the US Data.gov site and is releasing over 1000 data-sets online. But at the same time there was a stark reminder that vast parts of the UK's data is still under wraps. You can see its founder Tom Steinberg talking at Gov 2.0 in Washington here:

Politics - Politics Welcoming, diverse, international Top Ten in the Sunday Times University Guide 2014 World-leading research expertise, applying expertise to real-world problems High profile events and guest speakers Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve - Mobile enter the future here Open Source Journalism at the Guardian A few months ago I wrote a piece called the Death of Journalism which talked about how – even if they find a new revenue model – newspapers are in trouble because they are fundamentally opaque institutions. This built on a piece Taylor Owen wrote called Missing the Link about why newspapers don’t understand (or effectively use) the internet. Today Nicolas T. sent me this great link that puts some of the ideas found in both pieces into practice. No newspaper could, if by “newspaper” you mean only its staff and not its community of readers. What makes this exciting is it is one example of how – by being transparent and leveraging the interest and wisdom of their readership – newspapers and media outlets can do better, more indepth, cheaper and more effective journalism. Indeed, in effect the Guardian has deputizing its readers to be micro-journalists. Why is that? So what does that make the Guardian? Like this: Like Loading...

Bali tourists will be thirsty if Indonesia implements strict alcohol laws Bintang-drinking, bikini-wearing Australians are no doubt freaking out their holiday destination of choice — Bali, Indonesia — may no longer support their boozing habits. On Thursday, a ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of above 5% was implemented in minimarts across Indonesia, according to the Jakarta Post. A few days before the new conditions came into place, two Islamic parties also put a bill to Indonesian parliament calling for a blanket ban on beverages with more than 1% alcohol. The bill was introduced to parliament by the National Development Party (PPP) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), according to the Jakarta Post, and calls for jail sentences ranging from three months to two years for people caught consuming alcohol. The bill has been deliberated in the House of Representatives, but the government has not yet discussed it. It will only become law if it is signed off by President Joko Widodo. Have something to add to this story?

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