When a battle-weary David Davis got off the train home on Friday night, the condemnation of his colleagues ringing in his ears, he headed to his local pub for solace. His aides were waiting, with a sheaf of emails they stuffed straight into his hands.

They came from excited Tory activists, life-long Labour voters, ordinary people who had never written to politicians before: there was an offer of help from a Lib Dem constituency chairman and pledges of cash from pensioners. But one, he admits, gave him a lump in the throat : it was from a woman who worked on a local government project to encourage the alienated and unfranchised to vote. What he had done, she wrote, would make my job so much easier .

Suddenly, Labour is not laughing at David Davis | Politics | The Observer

Um, I would venture to guess that 90% of the articles on Memestreams are generated by this user. If this is indeed a human, I'd like to know what they do for a living, other than read articles online and post them on Memestreams. I check the site almost daily and there's absolutely no way I could ever read the amount of material generated by this user. Much less absorb it, comment on it, and pontificate about it. What's up?

Is possibly noteworthy possibly a bot?

Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP.

He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit.

Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a noble endeavour to stop the erosion of British civil liberties.

BBC NEWS | Politics | David Davis resigns from Commons

A couple of years ago, a Canadian magazine published an article arguing that the rise of Islam threatened Western values. The article s tone was mocking and biting, but it said nothing that conservative magazines and blogs in the United States did not say every day without fear of legal reprisal.

Things are different here. The magazine is on trial.

edit having recommended this i note a, that i recommend it not to express an opinion but because it is a good article
but it also occurs to me b, clearly i generally believe in a marketplace of ideas (why else would I be attracted to a site about memes?)
and c, America protects hate speech yet America, first amongst the western nations, is potentially on the verge of electing a black leader. This doesn't prove anything but it is interesting to note.

Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S. - International Herald Tribune

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The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".

The forecast from Alexey Miller, the head of the Kremlin-owned gas giant Gazprom, would herald the arrival of �2-per-litre petrol and send shockwaves through the economy. His comments were the most stark to be expressed by an industry executive and come just days after the oil price registered its largest-ever single-day spike, hitting $139.12 per barrel last week amid fears that the world's faltering supply will be unable to keep up with demand.

An ominous warning that the rapid rise in oil prices has only just begun - Home News, UK - The Independent

A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hints of 'time before Big Bang'

compare and contrast 2 images of relative technological prowess -- two northern polar regions but worlds apart

Question: What do America’s premier investor, Warren Buffett, and Iran’s toxic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have in common? Answer: They’ve both made a bet about Israel’s future.

Op-Ed Columnist - Thomas L. Friedman - Buffett and Ahmadinejad Bet on Israel’s Future - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive

awesome a fresh view of the tech singularity -- AI as the birth of third generation replicators -- R3 as T1 or piggy backing on humans and dawn of the post-human and climate change etc seen from new perspective -- I find it interesting that Susan Blackmore sees a choke point ahead --- I know I do and have done for some time but she weaves it into a larger narrative

TED | Talks | Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes" (video)