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Open Prism

http://openprism.blogspot.com

Open Prism is a political blog written by R. Blake, an 18-year-old student, news aficionado and politico. The blog discusses current events, British, American and Irish politics, and throws in some satire for good measure! The author would love to hear feedback on posts, blog design, and anything else related to Open Prism.

• Added on: Mar 12th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: R Blake
• Listed in: Politics News & Media
• Tags: politics news UK commentary usa northern ireland

Recent Posts

• Blacking up? Wrong?!

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 05:29 in Government, equality, racism, discrimination, tories, watchdog, phillips, pageant, davies, blackface, shortlist

  Wearing blackface, all-black beauty contests, ethnic minority shortlists--they are the perceived hallmarks of a racially liberated society, but one man--Mr. Philip Davies MP--decided to challenge the equality commission on these and other similar PC ...

• Copenhagen fails

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 19:37 in climate change, Al Gore, un, copenhagen, pathetic, gordon brown, treaty, unreliable, climategate

  The snowbound leaders have once again impressed us with their inability to save the world. The collective cranial might of China, America, Europe, and All Them Liddle Wunns appears to have so many split personalities that it cannot turn the thermosta...

• A speech for our time?

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 05:57 in politics, Ireland, dail, stagg, paul gogarty

  Straight from a nigh-empty Dail in Ireland, the first honest political exchange I have seen in a good while:...

• ICM: Tories just 9 up

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 15:01 in Government, election, guardian, poll, icm, tories, yougov, comres

  According to a Guardian/ICM poll, the Tories are just 9 points ahead of the government. This backs up yesterday's YouGov poll announcing the same difference, and puts ComRes' 17-point lead estimate into as much question as whether or not the governme...

• Can the Tories lose?

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 06:08 in election, change, blair, major, poll, new labour, cameron, thatcher

  The Blair-Thatcher comparison has always been valid on some level. Without Thatcher, there would have been no Blair, in more ways than one; Thatcherism paved the ideological way for New Labour, and it disenchanted voters to the point at which they ki...

• Them lovable crooks

  Posted on Sunday December 13th, 2009 at 04:16 in legislation, washington, Bonuses, bankers, expenses, telegraph, mps, westminster, crooked, financiers

  Shock value is basically an excuse to pass the time. Bankrupt politics? Check. Swinging golfer? Check. Crooked financiers? Check! As the list of modern scandals goes on, I begin to realise that there is nothing we like better than a moan around the c...

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