Tech City Deputy CEO speaks to Bloomberg

On Blomberg’s the Pulse Ben Southworth, deputy CEO of the Tech City Investment Organisation,, spoke about how even with all our technology and online social interaction, sometimes a beer or a coffee can go furthest. Watch Ben here.

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Guardian opens a data driven coffee shop

The Guardian, which used to be a newspaper, has opened a data driven coffee shop in Shoreditch. Having checked the date, and confirmed it’s not April 1st, I am now utterly speechless. Luckily Alex Hern has summed it all up nicely here.   Those sharks...

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Chief whip to have disciplinary meeting for Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock

Nick Clegg has asked Lib Dem Chief Whip Alistair Carmichal to convene a disciplinary meeting to consider the case of Mike Hancock MP. The Portsmouth South MP has had allegations of sexual misconduct made against him. Nick Clegg asks Carmichael to convene...

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Snoopers’ charter is a domestic policy problem, but a foreign policy disaster

Since the Woolwich attack many have been lining up to explain why the snoopers’ charter needs to be implemented. To do so would be a foreign policy disaster, as well as a domestic one. The UK frequently decries nations who limit internet access or spy...

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Iain Duncan Smith forces Clegg into choice between security and scroungers

The Telegraph say Iain Duncan Smith would cut welfare by a further £3bn to prevent cuts to the forces and police, leaving Nick Clegg in an impossible position. There is no doubt many Lib Dem members are uncomfortable with many of the changes and cuts...

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Question Time Liveblog 23/5/13

Live from Belfast, equal marriage and Europe are likely on the menu, but the terrorist attack in London are likely to dominate.

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Farron still favourite to lead Lib Dems despite equal marriage abstention

Of the various votes that were or were not cast around equal marriage, it was the abstentions of Lib Dem President Tim Farron, and Deputy Leader Simon Hughes, that got the most attention. Farron is widely considered a party leader in waiting, and is hugely...

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After Woolwich attacks UK terror threat remains at ‘substantial’

It looks like terrorism has once again returned to the city of London, this time in Woolwich. Tonight the threat from international terrorism to the UK remains at ‘substantial’and MI5 say  that the “threat comes principally from Al Qaida and related networks”....

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How every Lib Dem MP voted, or didn’t, on equal marriage

Lib Dem MPs that voted against equal marriage: Alan Beith (Berwick-Upon-Tweed) Gordon Birtwhistle (Burnely) John Pugh (Southport) Sarah Teather (Brent Central) In total 47  Lib Dems MPs plus one Lib Dem teller (Sir Bob Russell,) were present yesterday,...

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