Just noticed Sky is reporting on persiankiwi's tweets this morning about new bouts of violence in Tehran today.
They quote this tweet:
"I see many ppl with broken arms/legs/heads - blood everywhere - pepper gas like war," persiankiwi writes in English.I actually re-tweeted this so I wonder if they heard about it through my twitter? Suppose I'll never know. Anyway if you twitter its worth following this person here: www.twitter.com/persiankiwi
Lord Mandelson gave his first speech as Secretary of State for BIS rather than BERR today following the second re-branding of the department in less than two years (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to Business, Innovation and Skills).
Two things to note:
1. The comma is missing from the logo despite the shift costing a total of £70 million according to one of my sources. (If they price the change by character, this omission saved the taxpayer £1.8 million)
2. Despite the fact that Mandelson's speech today was on how the new department would "put science at centre of vision of Britain's future prosperity," I hear BIS failed to consult either the Chief Scientific Advisor John Beddington or the Government Office of Science on the contents of the speech.
Oh well, who needs joined up government anyway?
UPDATE: Noticed Michael Crick pointing out that the subsumed DIUS is the only government department ever to have just one secretary of state (John Denham)
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