I created a new theme for and London based swimming-pool activist group (believe it or not). It's based on the Candid Blue Theme I did a few months ago, but it does not have any of the rapping navigations problems. It also features an Updated Discussion Group theme, and an Include message macro that gives users an area under that navigation that they can add to without digging into the template.

Frontier Server Managers can download this new theme here. [BryanBell.com] [theBase]

Rolling 24-hour news as seen in the Iraq conflict might have made both world wars harder to win, says the foreign secretary. Hmm then maybe this is the last war fought by a democracy - let's leave it to the dictators or hang-on a minute Jack talk to Alistair..... [respice prospice]

Hugo Young in The Guardian: "Even if we're prepared to grant the existence, deep in American purposes, of more idealism than is usually admitted, its fulfilment has become unattainable. America's understanding of the world has become so self-centred, and its reputation so corrupted, that its ability to export liberal democracy either by example or by force now looks to be non-existent." [Davos Newbies]

According to James Moore, the second superpower isn't China or even Europe. It's the "will of the people" in a global social movement. [Davos Newbies]