Word: britishized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pictures of the British police...
...pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...billed as "policing by Twitter," a first for London's Metropolitan Police. Environmental campaigners had announced plans to set up a 3,000-person-strong "camp for climate action" in the British capital on Aug. 26. In the days leading up to the event, police and protesters both promised to start tweeting information to ensure its peaceful running. "We set up a Twitter site specifically," says Chief Superintendent Helen Ball, the Met officer charged with explaining the purportedly high-tech, low-visibility operational policy. "The use of Twitter is within a range of different communication methods, improving understanding...
...climate camp that had been erected in the financial district when he was pushed to the ground by a policeman. He later died from internal bleeding. Prosecutors are deciding whether to bring charges against the officer. The Met is seeking to redeem itself in the eyes of the British public - one reason for its attempts at transparency via Twitter. (See the best social-networking applications...
...some 100 protesters waited outside the Bank of England for final directions to the climate camp, to be disseminated by SMS. "British police are the best in the world at policing," says a man who identified himself as You Can Call Me Jeff (climate campers prefer to withhold their real names). "After all, they've had centuries of repressing social movements. They know how to win the battle of the story, to convince people they're in the right. But at the G-20, they lost it." Kat, another seasoned climate camper, agrees. She recalls watching riot police lash...