links for 2008-09-11

A good point from Matthew, which was only slightly undermined by the fact that when it arrived in my RSS reader it was accompanied by a spammy Google ad promising me firmer abs ;-)

"The Irish government has finally released the data from a survey it took to determine why the Irish people voted to reject the Lisbon Treaty. The findings are pretty damning, not least for the government who called it."

Says all that I was going to say after reading the article in Mail

The real spin here, of course, has come from Shadow Health Minister Mark Simmonds, who seems to have got all of the newspapers to swallow 'comms' equals 'spin doctors', when in fact NICE spend the vast majority of their 'comms' money on informing the rest of the NHS about drugs.

"None of the terrestrial broadcasters who expressed an interest in the England game offered us a fair market price" although presumably that 'unfair' price was higher than nothing, so *was* the market price?