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IDC reports that for the first time in four years, Sweden has slipped from top position in its ranking of countries on an Information Society Index for 2003.

	Country	ISI Score
1.	Denmark	963
2.	Sweden	958
3.	United States	938
4.	Switzerland	929
5.	Canada	925
6.	Netherlands	919
7.	Finland	911
8.	Korea	904
9.	Norway	899
10.	United Kingdom	870
Source: IDC Information Society Index, 2004

So Tony Thatcher's (oops, Freudian slip, I meant, of course, Blair's) much vaunted drive for Britain to be the leading state seems to be going nowhere very fast.

And with the dismal news of a probable Bush victory in the US election (how can more than 50% of the American electorate not realise what a disaster this is?), I assume that the monkey will be intent on dragging the US back to some stone age condition. After all, the Information Society isn't in the Old Testament, is it?