Senator Barack Obama has a new blog! Obama is the junior Senator for Illinois, and many people’s pick for a future Democratic presidential candidate.

The first of a hopefully daily series of blog roundups is up now at the General Election Blog. As I am currently stupidly overworked I don’t know when I’ll get around to doing one, but any tips and pointers will … Continue reading →

Or did I just hallucinate the opening sequence of This Week? Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo dancing and singing like maniacs and the like. Could the programme have finally realised its inherent ridiculousness? Oh bollocks, now it turns out Benjamin … Continue reading →

For those of us who really wish we could all get over this pathetic us vs. them thing that’s supposedly been going on with Europe and America over the last few years, this new site, set up by some Daily … Continue reading →

Utterly unrelated to the usual Europhobia fare, but Diderot’s Lounge has a great series of posts from one of their bloggers from a recent trip to Afghanistan, with more promised, which are well worth a look: Afghan Trip I – … Continue reading →

Tim Worstall’s latest Britblog roundup is here for the browsing. Then, following these posts from the other day, The Observer has an interesting piece on French EU constitution referendum problems. In other news, the current anti-Japanese protests in China may … Continue reading →

Following the round-up at the General Election Blog, the ongoing worries about the dodginess of the system and my post from the other day asking whether the general election is going to happen thaks to Birmingham Lib Dem councillor John … Continue reading →

I’ve started another new blog, currently full of some fairly dodgy film reviews I’ve been getting paid to do for the last few months (my journalistic career, for those who don’t know, started off in film criticism). The USP? I … Continue reading →

Martin Stabe has a good roundup of how US “liberal” bloggers are beginning to respond to the UK election. In short – they can’t decide between backing the Lib Dems or Labour. Much like many on the left on this … Continue reading →

Robin Grant of Perfect.co.uk has a nice summary of the way the campaigning potential of the interwebnet seems finally to have been picked up on by the parties for this election in a piece over at Brand Republic. It’s not … Continue reading →

Via The Returning Officers and The Honourable Fiend comes news that Birmingham council Liberal Democrats leader John Hemming wants a judicial review of electoral procedures following the Birmingham vote rigging scandal. This could potentially delay the general election. Hemming says: … Continue reading →

I’m still trying to keep one eye on the other side of the Channel while following the election run-up in the UK. Thusly: Yesterday the European Commission made a pitch for its budget, asking for 1.14% of the combined gross … Continue reading →

(sorry – saw the pic here and couldn’t resist – and yes, I know it’s a bit shit…)