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You hardly need me to tell you that the only problem with electric cars is the treachery of their almost entirely useless batteries. Everything else about electric cars is pretty wonderful and we’ve known that electric is the way to go for more than a century. I like the idea of one; the smoothness, the futuristic whooshing noises and twinkling dashboard displays, the low maintenance, the mechanical simplicity. The internal combustion engine is a wonderful thing, but I suspect we love it for its foibles. Its gift of power is actually pretty feeble and fairly inflexible, so it needs gearing...

Want a flavour of The Stranger? Two articles will provide the encapsulated essence of it’s core values…..Stop The GOP and F### The South….job done, I fancy…. Add into the mix Ms West and there you have the ultimate Kos cocktail guaranteed to raise smiles at Styrofoam columns everywhere for she has planted her cultural flag squarely in the “conservatives are racist” camp by eviscerating the film “The Stoning of Soraya M”

On the very day the liberal/left UK Guardian, to it’s credit, gave a platform to US right wing and pro Tea Party and pro Palin media star Tammy Bruce the so called conservative UK Telegraph gave the nod to their US based hack Alex Spillius to sneer at Palin for her Tweet mistake which she corrected ten minutes later

Toby Harnden writes in the UK Telegraph about Palin's Iowa speech - are his pants on fire?

The impossible has happened. Alex Spillius, Washington correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph has actually written a respectful, almost positive article on Sarah Palin.

Not all fauxtography involves doctoring of recent news photographs; sometimes news sources take an old picture and change the context which also is using photographs to fake a news story. For example the picture below was taken by the Associated Press on January 14, 2009, right after the end of the most recent Israeli war with Hamas. Last week the UK Daily Telegraph ran an article about the Gaza Blockade, this is how the article looked: jun17 Does the picture look familiar? That’s because it is the same exact photograph from two years ago. This time the caption says:

"What they do is their business," Dobbs said yesterday. "I tried to accommodate them as best I could, but I've said for many years now that neutrality is not part of my being." [CNN boss Jonathan] Klein long believed Dobbs was at odds with CNN's desire to position itself as an opinion-free, middle-of-the-road alternative to its cable news rivals -- conservative Fox News and liberal MSNBC. Dobbs got $8M to quit Ny Post ^ | Nov. 16, 2009 | MICHAEL SHAIN A man once, upon learning that I'm conservative, said "You probably think that journalism isn't objective." I was...

If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

Russia is deploying the threat to sell a "game changing" air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new "cold war" with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.

The most influential US political pundits: 20-11 Last updated: 10:34 AM BST 01/05/2008 Telegraph.co.uk unveils the fourth installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving to be the most fascinating and potentially one of the closest contests in living memory. The 50 most influential US political pundits 50-41 40-31 30-21 20. JOE KLEIN One of the most readable columnists today, Democrats take notice if he spots a shift in the electoral zeitgeist. His column in Time has...

Telegraph wins website usage case Last Updated: 4:15am BST 25/04/2007 The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld the Telegraph Media Group's right to describe Telegraph.co.uk as "Britain's No. 1 quality newspaper website,'" dismissing a complaint about an advertising campaign in the first two months of 2007. The Telegraph advertisement was based on research by Hitwise, which monitors web usage by more than eight million British users. According to Hitwise, Telegraph.co.uk had more UK visits than any other quality newspaper website in 2006.

One of Iraq's most pro-western figures and an ex-prime minister yesterday became the first of its leaders to express what most of his compatriots fear: the country is in the grip of a "terrible" civil war. John Reid and Iyad Allawi Defence Secretary John Reid meets with Iyad Allawi Iyad Allawi's acknowledgement of the violence sweeping the nation was not the sort of tribute America or Britain were hoping for on the eve of today's third anniversary of their invasion. John Reid, the Defence Secretary, who was visiting British troops in Basra yesterday, had argued that those predicting that Iraq...

A century-old hobby filled with dots and dashes is embroiled in a debate about its future and what level of training should be expected of those called on to help during local and national emergencies. Morse code, a slowly dying language, has become radio's equivalent of Latin: historically important, but increasingly irrelevant in a world of cell phones, computers and instant messaging. With mariners and the military having moved to other technologies long ago, ham radio operators are virtually the sole practitioners of a technique that made national and international communication possible with the telegraph.

Last month, a briefly worded press release went nearly unnoticed. It simply read: "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging Services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage." After 155 years, and millions of telegrams and Telex messages, a major part of American history quietly slipped into obscurity. For more than 100 years, Socorro was part of that history. With today's telephones, cell phones and e-mail, we can contact almost anyone we wish immediately and cheaply. This wasn't always the case. In Socorro's early days,...

Late last month Western Union sent its final telegram, ending an era whose arrival was far more revolutionary than the onset of email or instant messaging. It was the telegraph that knit the world together -- once transatlantic cables arrived in the 1860s, information flew around the globe in hours, instead of days or weeks; in terms of information transfer, the phone, fax, email and IM are little more than variations on that theme. In 1929 more than 200 million telegrams were sent; last year, there were around 20,000, and the telegram had long since become an old-fashioned ritual that...

Telegraph wins newspaper awards (Filed: 13/05/2005) The Daily Telegraph has been named National Newspaper of the Year. The criteria for the award were presentation, quality and customer appeal and the judges described it as "the most consistent, professionally produced newspaper". They also highlighted its reader friendliness and good design, saying that it offered an excellent overall package. The editions entered were those covering the immediate aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami and "the strong imagery and clean clear design" led to The Daily Telegraph also being awarded the Newspaper Design of the Year award. The 2005 Newspaper Awards, in association...

Telegraph hates everything I stand for, says GallowayBy Caroline Davies (Filed: 17/11/2004) The Telegraph's handling of documents purporting to show that the Iraqi regime had funded George Galloway's political campaigning was influenced by the newspaper's hatred of him, the MP said yesterday. On the second day of his libel action, the 50-year-old member for Glasgow Kelvin claimed that the Telegraph "hated" him because "I stand for everything they don't". In a furious outburst Mr Galloway accused James Price, QC, counsel for the Telegraph of calling him anti-Semitic when it was put to him that "responsible journalists" could take the view...

In the end, it was the sheer preppie courtesy of election night that hit home. When John Kerry defied the logic of the first results and declined to concede the election early yesterday morning, the engines of George W Bush's motorcade were revving and ready to whisk the re-elected President to a public stage to claim victory. But aides told him it would look bad, and might seem "divisive", and perhaps not the sort of thing one Yale man does to another. So Mr Bush held back, and gave his opponent more time to ponder the irrefutable arithmetic of the...

THE QUALITY OF MERSEYToday, for the first time in all my years with the Telegraph Group, I had a column pulled. The editor expressed concerns about certain passages and we were unable to reach agreement, so on this Tuesday something else will be in my space.I’d written about Kenneth Bigley, seized with two American colleagues but unlike them not beheaded immediately. Instead, sensing that they could exploit potential differences within “the coalition of the willing”, for three weeks the Islamists played a cat-and-mouse game with Mr Bigley’s life, in which Fleet Street, the British public, governments in London and Dublin...

Randy Gehman, N3LJE, of Waminster ARC talks with members of the Morse Family. One of the greatest things about Amateur Radio is that you just never know who you will run into. Such was the case for Warminster Amateur Radio Club at the special event station the club set up at the Middletown Grange Fair in Wrightstown in Bucks County Pennsylvania. For decades the club has had an Amateur Radio station on display every year at the Grange Fair where they provide information about ham radio to the public. The club accepts messages from fairgoers and passes the messages...