tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post5319639106048827089..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: That Brown InterviewBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-41535471240622309512009-06-20T17:43:48.544+00:002009-06-20T17:43:48.544+00:00Twitter and Facebook might not be around for long ...Twitter and Facebook might not be around for long as repressive regimes like China are allocating huge amounts of research into disabling and censoring these sites. Depressingly, the European Union wants control on internet censorship, so it's far from clear that the internet in its current form will be everlasting.<br /><br />"There's only so long you can suppress an angry, wired Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33319381189471793432009-06-20T11:09:28.170+00:002009-06-20T11:09:28.170+00:00I gave up listening to what the lying shyster had ...I gave up listening to what the lying shyster had to say a long time ago. <br /><br />I admire you greatly Bryan for being able to stand reading anything about what he "believes" or says.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362169593902131947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-15181283701471572262009-06-20T08:47:23.764+00:002009-06-20T08:47:23.764+00:00The new media offer rich new ways of disseminating...The new media offer rich new ways of disseminating information, yet I suspect that it is precisely the irony-rich rubber rooms like CiF & the rest of the Blogosphere that provide safe environments for impotent political outrage and help keep our squares free of any signs of political protest. <br /><br />Our underclass may well explode one day -- and at the rate the middle class is being Albertosinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-71713227641600370162009-06-20T08:31:52.115+00:002009-06-20T08:31:52.115+00:00Richard:
1. I don't think anybody believed Br...Richard:<br />1. I don't think anybody believed Brown was interested in the trappings anyway - son of the manse etc. - so it is an irrelevance. His main reason for wanting power appears to be a desire to be seen to be doing good (again the Presbyterianism) but his character is such that having failed to achieve what he wanted he now sulkily refuses to acknowledge that anyone else might be Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-2614619853186940222009-06-20T07:50:19.411+00:002009-06-20T07:50:19.411+00:00Bryan, I need to part company from you and other B...Bryan, I need to part company from you and other Brown-haters. I was made aware of both points last night and, not for the first time in recent days, as I lay down to rest I rejoiced that Brown was PM.<br /><br />First, I believe him about the trappings. I don't think terminology matters. Yes, he wants the power, but I want someone who wants the power, just for the right reasons. Of course heRichard Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10005416556432927671noreply@blogger.com