While going through my blog’s archives, I noticed I took a political objectives test at 18th July, 2007. So I decided to take it again and see if I have changed and to which direction.
Here’s the result of today’s test:
Your result for The Political Objectives Test…

Conservative?
You scored 14 Equality, 79 Liberty, and 93 Stability!
You are a bit difficult to classify. You may well be a Conservative. Your greater than average commitment to stability …

Thousands of chipmunks carrying potentially fatal diseases which have been spreading westwards across France have now reached Paris, raising the threat they could reach Britain, the Daily Mail reports.
French officials have issued warnings about the creatures after swarms of the seemingly cuddly chipmunks were found living in woods around Paris. Many carry ticks infected with the Borrelia virus which causes Lyme disease, a nervous condition which kills victims if not treated early enough. They can …

Anyone who wishes to place a note in the Western Wall in Jerusalem need not come to Israel, nor leave the computer, Ha’aretz reports.
A new Web site offers those seeking to have their prayers answered a chance to tweet at the Kotel.
The service offers the public a chance to submit their prayers, which would then be printed in small notes and placed inside the wall’s cracks.
The site could be accessed at tweetyourprayers.info.

Former Ukrainian general Oleksiy Pukach, suspected of carrying out the high-profile murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, has confessed to the killing, the BBC reports.
A senior police official said Pukach had also implicated senior political figures in the murder.
Gongadze’s decapitated body was found in a forest in September 2000.
Three others – all former policemen – were jailed for the murder last year but Pukach remained on the run until his capture on Tuesday.
Gongadze was an investigative journalist …

The makers of BlackBerry devices have alleged that a software update issued by the UAE telecommunications company Etisalat contained spyware, the Daily Telegraph reports.
BlackBerry’s parent company Research in Motion alleged the software offered by Etisalat could “enable unauthorised access to private or confidential information stored on the user’s smartphone”.
“RIM confirms that this software is not a patch and it is not a RIM-authorised upgrade. RIM did not develop this software application and RIM was not …

The world’s first brand of chocolate made with camels’ milk plans to expand into new Arab markets, Europe, Japan and the United States, Reuters reports.
Dubai-based al-Nassma’s chairman Martin Van Almsick said they planned to enter Saudi Arabia first, followed by Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United States within the next few months.
Al-Nassma are also in talks with British department store Harrods and San Francisco’s Chocolate Covered.
All al-Nassma’s chocolates are produced without preservatives or chemical additives …

Google announced that Google Wave, their new real-time online communication and collaboration tool for friends, will go live at the end of September, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Initially, the service will only be available to around 100,000 people, who must sign up for the chance to be granted early access. Google are expected to roll out Google Wave to the general web public a month or so later.
Wave represents the “next step” in online communication, combining …

Despite that Lord Malloch-Brown, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister responsible for Afghanistan, admitted that British troops fighting in Afghanistan do not have enough helicopters, Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted today that UK has enough helicopters for an offensive in Helmand – and said lives lost during the past month were not due to a shortage, the BBC reports.
“For the operation we are doing at the moment we have the helicopters that we need,” Brown insisted.
Lord Malloch-Brown …

World’s local bank HSBC managed to lose details of tens of thousands of customers and has been hit now with three fines totalling £3.2 million, the Daily Mail reports.
HSBC Life lost an unencrypted CD with the details of 180,000 policy holders, while HSBC Actuaries lost a disc with data on almost 2,000 pension scheme members.
Confidential information on customers was also left on open shelves and unlocked cabinets and could have been lost or stolen, while …

A report detailing the alleged sexual abuse of 450 children by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Dublin was handed to the Irish Government yesterday, the Times reports.
It is the second one this year to examine the extent of abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic Church in Ireland and will undermine further its position in a country that only a few decades ago conformed rigidly to standards set by the Vatican.
Two priests named …

Over the past year, 52 pubs a week went out of business and 24,000 jobs were lost due to that, the Times reports.
Almost 2,400 pubs and bars have vanished from villages and towns in the past 12 months, according to research for the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). Local pubs serving small communities have been the worst hit, the association said.
The number of closures represents the steepest rate of decline since records began in …

Lord Malloch-Brown, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister responsible for Afghanistan, admitted that British troops fighting in Afghanistan do not have enough helicopters, the Times reports.
Lord Malloch-Brown, a former deputy secretary general of the UN who is due to leave the Government at the end of the week, said: “We definitely don’t have enough helicopters.”
“When you have these modern operations and insurgent strikes what you need, above all else, is mobility,” he said.
Until now all Government …

US President Barack Obama’s honeymoon period appears to be coming to an end in America as polls have shown his ratings have fallen to their lowest point yet – lower than his predecessor’s, George W. Bush’s at the same stage of his tenure.
According to USA Today/Gallup poll, Obama’s job approval rating has dropped by nine points since January to 55% – a point below Bush’s in mid-2001, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Other polls by ABC News …

The Chancellor Alistair Darling confirmed that the temporary VAT cut will end in December, and the value added tax will go back to 17.5% from current 15%.
Darling insisted at a private meeting with business leaders that there was no prospect of the Government keeping the VAT cut for more than 13 months. It has cost the Government £1billion a month so far.
As we so vividly remember, when the VAT was lowered from 17.5 to 15 per …

A bill that makes it a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 months in prison for MPs to file false expenses claims was passed into law last night, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The legislation also sets up an Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (ISPA) to regulate expenses.
The legislation received Royal Assent less than a month after it was first published, following final amendments in the Lords last night.
Two other criminal offences for MPs included in the …

Councils and other official bodies are using hidden tracking devices to snoop on the public, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Officials have continued to use the gadgets, which allow them to follow covertly people, despite a warning that the practice is prohibited, it emerged from a report by Sir Christopher Rose, the chief surveillance commissioner.
Sir Christopher found that the number of official surveillance operations increased last year, despite a government pledge to reduce them for trivial offences. He also …