Admin | June 26, 2011
US House Republicans proposed limiting the funding for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and placing the agency under the congressional appropriations process by 2013. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services released the measure today, which would limit to $200 million the amount the Federal Reserve can transfer to the new agency in fiscal [...]
Admin | June 26, 2011
Former Stone Roses star John Squire has created a new artwork inspired by Harold Shipman. The guitarist-turned-artist chose the Hyde mass murderer as one of the case studies for ‘Celebrity’, a new exhibition of abstract paintings depicting the famous and infamous. Other pictures depict Lindsey Lohan, David Beckham and Josef Fritzl. Squire uses shapes including [...]
Admin | June 26, 2011
This week-long serialisation forms the vast part of my undergraduate dissertation: An empirical analysis of Wikileaks, pre- and post- the 2010 diplomatic cables release. Media organisation or terrorist group; revolutionaries or journalistic evolutionists? This post will examine how Wikileaks not only operates but crucially how it functions amid the vast press preoccupation with its values [...]