We’re clogged with blogs – moderately amusing, from the Chicago Sun Times: “The universe has nothing on the blogosphere, which is expanding at the speed of gossip and spits on the concept of substantiated facts. A friend of mine estimates … Continue reading →

Britblog Roundup time. I’ve decided I’m going to set fire to any blogs I find offensive from this week’s package. That’ll learn ’em.

I was pondering doing this myself at some point, and now I don’t have to – via European Tribune a handy round-up of what’s going on in the run-up to the forthcoming Italian elections, in which Berlusconi is trying every … Continue reading →

Charlie Brooker has written the most honest newspaper column ever. I know precisely how he feels. Apart from the whole “getting paid” bit, obviously… The bastard.

I agree with this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and especially this. In short, this is all more complex than it appears and everyone involved should grow the hell up and stop acting like those fat toddlers you … Continue reading →

Looks like BNP leader Nick Griffin and his fellow fascist lackey Mark Collett have been let off after being charged with incitement to racial hatred. Which would tend to suggest that whoever brought this case is a raging moron. How … Continue reading →

The Social Services – bunch of bastards. Yep – separating an 89-year-old war veteran from his wife of 65 years. Genius. “the system is so rigid and so unforgiving and so lacking in imagination and creativity, to be able to … Continue reading →

As it’s the Lib Dems, I’ve only just noticed – but, considering all their recent sex-based scandals, couldn’t they have come up with a slogan for Simon Hughes’s campaign that’s slightly less open to interpretation as innuendo than Energy, Passion, … Continue reading →

Yesterday: the Home Office is told off for dodgy accounting – “It is disappointing that the Home Office had not maintained proper financial books and records” Today: the self-same Home Office that can’t keep tabs on its own accounts announces … Continue reading →

Get your nominations in – server problems mean it’s been delayed for a bit, but nominations will close and voting start soon.

Oh, and lest I forget – ha ha ha ha ha! Where’s your God now, Tony? Not much use really, is he? Or perhaps he’s just the version who created, like, free will and stuff… Oh, and a fun coincidence … Continue reading →

A quick plug – the new blog from the chap behind the now-defunct Siberian Light – if that was anything to go by, it should be well worth paying attention to.

This.

Ha ha ha ha ha! The heads of Eurosceptics and proponents of the “Biased BBC” meme explode in a shower of “I told you so!”s and rage, as favourite hate-figure of the loonier anti-EU brigade, Margot Wallstr�m (she of increasingly … Continue reading →