Google rules Britain, quite possibly

BBC'S RADIO 4 is conducting one of its weird polls about who or what rules Britain. A team of pandits including the ex head of MI5, a former head of the TGWU, an ex hack called Will Hutton and a couple of others have "sifted through" the nominations and come up with 10 on the shortlist. It's inviting listeners to vote and decide the winner.

The candidates are Jose M. Barroso, president of the €U; Terry Leahy from Tesco; Gordon Brown, the Scottish purse holder; Tony Blair, the exiting Prime Minister; Google Pagerank; Sir Gus O'Donnell, head of the British Mandarins; Rupert Murdoch from News Corp; the British Parliament; the British People [who they? Ed.]; and Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty.

You can vote for a candidate by clicking here. µ

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