Mandy Mandelson Wants to Teach Kids Technology, Who’s Going to Teach Mandy About Technology?

Lord Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary who has been the leading force behind putting in place the entertainment industry’s desired plan to require ISPs to kick accused file sharers off the internet under a “three strikes” plan, apparently is also saying that young people need better technology skills. Along with that, he’s supporting a plan to get universities to do more technical skills training. Now, I’m all for more tech skills training in universities, but wouldn’t it be nice if Mandelson started by getting some tech skills training himself — including a…

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(Photoshopping of Mandy’s pic done by us, honestly, all we did was add the mustache.. nothing more! Quite a resemblance huh? and he looks like him too! )

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