Royal Mail strike ballot as £3bn privatisation looms

The potential for a backbench revolt of plans to privatise Royal Mail became markedly more likely this morning when a Number 10 spokesman ruled out a compromise solution. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Is Social Networking Killing You?New York Times Blogs, NYNo less an authority on the brain’s workings than Susan Greenfield, a professor of pharmacology at Oxford University and the director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, told a British newspaper on Tuesday that social networking sites remind her …Social websites harm children's brains, neuroscientist warn…

Business Minister Michael Fallon (pictured) has pledged that every postal worker in Britain will be given around £1,500 of Royal Mail shares when it floats on the stock market. More: continued here