Liberal Democrat voters are more likely to own sex toys than either Labour or Conservative voters in the UK. They are also more likely to be bisexual according to a story in the Telegraph which mapped sexual preferences with political…
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Lib Dem voters have the most sex toys but what are they?
Liberal Democrat voters are more likely to own sex toys than either Labour or Conservative voters in the UK. They are also more likely to be bisexual according to a story in the Telegraph which mapped sexual preferences with political…
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Lib Dem voters – what sex toys would they have?
Liberal Democrat voters are more likely to own sex toys than either Labour or Conservative voters in the UK. They are also more likely to be bisexual according to a story in the Telegraph which mapped sexual preferences with political…
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Lib Dem voters – what sex toys would they have?
Thanks to the New York Times’s online dictionary we now know what words New York Times readers don’t know and need to look up. It’s a not particularly useful but quite interesting list. The NYT has an inbuilt dictionary which…
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"Laconic" and other words NYT readers have to look up
For the “majority” of homes
George Osborne, the Conservative party’s Shadow chancellor, has promised the British public that if elected, his government would deliver 100Mbps broadband speeds to the “majority” of homes by 2017.
Calling the scheme, “nationwide super-fast broadband”, the Tories plan to allow private investors to upgrade the cabling infrastructure, with rural areas that may prove less profitable paid for by the 3.5% chunk of the BBC’s budget currently set aside for the digital switchover.
In the 19th Century we built the railways. In the 20th Century we built the motorways. In the 21st Century let’s build the super-fast broadband network that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Britain”, said Osborne.
The Labour government currently in power has promised that the majority of homes will have 2Mbps broadband by 2012, a target it is hoping to meet by adding a ?6 surcharge each year on every landline in the country, which should raise up to ?175m per annum.
The Liberal Democrats, however, have said that the Conservatives are applying “fantasy world economics”, with the party’s?culture, media and sport spokesman Don Foster?saying: “Anyone can promise the earth – what matters is how you pay for it.?All independent research shows that the market simply cannot provide high-speed broadband in all parts of the country in the short term without investment”.
Sweden, which currently boasts an average connectivity speed of 12.8Mbps compared to Britain’s 4.1Mbps, has pledged that 90% of its population will be able to access speeds of 100Mbps by 2020, with 40% already having it by 2015.
With an election looming, the normally-dull issue of broadband network improvement is fast becoming a hot topic, and with the Digital Britain bill being pushed hard through parliament before the ballot boxes open, things could prove interesting. We’ll keep you posted.
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Tories promise 100Mbps broadband by 2017 originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:32:02 +0000
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Logitech, the company that’s dropped more than a billion mice in our laps, is back with a glossy, gold-accented new laptop accessory kit. There’s not an.
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