Comment: The Olympic legacy must be about more than just tourism
Culture secretary Maria Miller delivered a barely-keynote speech on tourism and the Olympic legacy on Tuesday – but surely the legacy is more than just tourism?
Yearly Archives: 2012
Science spending fell 7.6% in 2010/11, plunging UK further down the league table
Science spending has fallen even faster than expected, with individual departmental spends down 7.6% in the first year of the parliament.
Watch: Jon Stewart rips Fox’s election night sewer of unreality
Watch Jon Stewart re-live Fox News’s unreal election night displeasure.
“The best is yet to come” – but gridlock looms…
The historic 2012 Obama re-election newspaper front pages.
…Meanwhile, in the land of the unfree, China prepares to “unveil” new leader to the world
Two days after the US elections, we see the other side of the coin in the Chinese Communist party congress, where they will “announce” their new leadership.
Election 2012’s funniest moment? Trump’s Twitter meltdown
Donald Trump’s election night Twitter meltdown.
“An open, united America engaged on the international scene” – the world welcomes Obama’s win
After a vicious, long and costly election campaign, world leaders react to President Obama’s re-election.
Five lessons for the UK from Obama’s victory
Will Straw presents five lessons for the UK from Barack Obama’s 2012 US Presidential election victory.
US 2012: The diseconomy of the cost of American elections
After the most expensive presidential election ever (more than one billion dollars was spent), Cormac Hollingsworth look at how efficient all the spending was.
“Obama’s toast”; “Romney beats Obama, handily”; “Landslide for Romney” – the worst 2012 forecasts
A look at some of the worst 2012 US Presidential election predictions.