The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
No paperback thrillers for them - instead, the Tory foreign affairs spokesman Keith Simpson has issued a 38-book, Cameron-approved summer reading list. It includes such top-hole Tory reads as Andrew Gimson's biography of Boris Johnson (with slightly Soviet-esque overtones, Simpson advises his colleagues that "Mayor Johnson is now to be studied in theory and practice"), Conservative text...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
John Harris: David Miliband performed well on Radio 2, but it's the same old Blairite song sheet he's singing from
GameSetWatch (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
['@ Play' is a kinda-sorta bi-weekly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre.] Here's a bit of hopefully-useful insight into a topic that every roguelike designer has to cover eventually: how to simulate variable rates of movement on the game's essentially integral, Cartesian grid. One of the most distinctive aspects...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
JUNEAU -- A published comment from TransCanada Corp. Chief Executive Hal Kvisle sent a chill through the Capitol halls just days after the Legislature awarded the Canadian company an exclusive license toward a pipeline project.Some Alaska state lawmakers wondered if a review to rescind the approval should be considered before Senate President Lyda Green, R-Wasilla, and House Speaker John Harris,...
Blue Oasis (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
... realistic date. After all, it is the largest construction project ever undertaken in North America.John Harris is the typical Reudrich Republican, predictably trying to make cheap political points at the expense of the bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans that supported the TC proposal. There is a great deal of progressive Democratic political capital tied up in the TransCanada...
Blog P.I. (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... two years in existence. Here’s how it begins: When veteran Washington Post political reporters John Harris and Jim VandeHei urged their bosses to create a Web site strictly dedicated to politics, management didn’t jump at the idea. Less than two years later, Politico, the venture they envisioned – and left the Post to take on – is a success, and a politics-only site is “under study”...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Rookie Rashard Mendenhall, the first running back selected by the Steelers in the first round of the NFL Draft in 19 years, sat down for a chat with the Trib's John Harris:
Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Oh, for Christ’s sake. Here we go again. John Harris on David Miliband: A good performance, then – even his everyman-ish glottal stops are sounding more natural. Another charlatan. I suppose after so long we should be used to journalists swiftly moving over such casual yet contemptuous deceit with nary a backward glance. Blair was master at [...]
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Also seeCollated first round scores in the U.S. Senior Open Championship, The Broadmoor Resort, Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 70): Fred Funk66 John Cook Juan Quiros (Spa), Tom Kite, Eduardo Romero (Arg), Morris Hatalsky Mark McNulty (Irl), Rick Cloninger Andy Bean, Gary Hallberg, Mick Soli, Tom Watson, John Morse, Bobby...
