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Welcome to my new website
Thank you for visiting my new website.

It has two elements -  a Monday-Friday blog on different subjects and a News section.

Update

A New Start with a New Design

Mondays: Politics
 
Tuesdays: Digital & New Media
 
Wednesdays: Sport
 
Thursdays: Take 5 actvities for the weekend
 
Fridays: Foreign Affairs
 
And the site itself will reflect these interests of mine in more detail as it builds. I hope you will participate and add your own comments.
 
Once again, Andy Hudson, the award- winning designer of my former site (three national awards), has been responsible for this one. I cannot recommend him highly enough. 

My old site: www.derekwyattexmp.co.uk has been officially deposited at the British Library: www.bl.uk
 
Derek Wyatt
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Assessing the Pakistani cricket row
Some critical questions which remain unanswered: Did the three named Pakistani cricketers lay bets themselves on bowling no-balls or were they promised a percentage of the illegal bets laid back in Pakistan for the act in question? Did they bowl the no balls to demonstrate to the "sting" that it was possible to do but actually this was a dry run and no bets were placed?
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Just do one thing this weekend
There's only really one thing to do this week and that is to go out and buy the book everyone is talking about. It is: Chris Mullins' second volume of his diaries entitled: Decline & Fall (of the Labour Government). His publishing house brought froward the publishing date to 31st August 2010 to pip the other book which is being trashed in almost every newspaper today but which is actually rather a good read. I finished Decline & Fall in two sittings but Blair's A Journey...
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AUG
Fame is Four Lines
Having been quoted in an Andrew Rawnsley book* I thought my chances of further fame were decidely limited until today when Amazon delivered me Chris Mullins' Volume 2 Decline & Fall where I make four lines about the 2007 fiasco over the General Election that wasn't. * Andrew Rawnsley The End of the Party 
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AUG
Wyatt & Montgomerie at one on "picks"
I suggested in my Blog for 26th August (Take 5) that the three "picks" for the European team for the Ryder Cup should be: Padraig Harrington, Edoardo Molinari & Luke Donald Colin Montgomerie selected for his three "picks" Padraig Harrington, Edoardo Molinari & Luke Donald
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AUG
Wyatt & Grade at one on Future of BBC
I said on 23rd August on a piece about the BBC that the Licence Fee should be able to be accessed by C4. At the GMEITF in Edinburgh yesterday Michael Grade commented: "The BBC should compete for a share of the licence fee with Channel 4."
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Latest Video

The internet's role in the recession. G20 and we20
we20 have been lucky enough to speak to Derek Wyatt MP one of the pioneers of internet adoption within UK Parliament. Derek spoke to us about the internet's role in contributing to and possibly solving the recession. He also explains some background to the G20 Summit and discusses we20.
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Latest news

World needs an Internet Policy Institute
Events in the UK and USA regarding Sky v Skype and Facebook v teachbook and the ongoing saga in India and the UAE regarding RIM encryption further underlines the need for an Internet Policy Institute..
Medical Apps
Medical iPad apps continue to be added almost on a daily basis
Latest Laws Suits
Hard to believe but two quite similar cases have started one in UK and one in USA involving the words Sky and Book......plus Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft sues google and others.....
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