I’m pro-EU, in spite of all its faults, for the reasons outlined in a post back in April. The way to do it with a clear conscience, just so you know, is to basically turn a blind eye to the … Continue reading →

Another one of those “you’re searching for WHAT now?” moments… Thank the sweet Lord I’m only third this time…

Britblog Roundup #40. *insert usual cliched praise here*

For those that care, I’ve just spent a couple of hours updating the archives. Good God, that was tedious. Why can’t Blogger introduce a topic archive thing so I no longer have to do it manually, eh? The lazy bastards. … Continue reading →

A handy, 1000-word introduction to Dutch politics, courtesy of the increasingly good European Tribune. With the various bits of insanity in the Netherlands over the last couple of years or so (with the murders of right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn and … Continue reading →

The Times on blogging, by someone familiar, and yet ANOTHER piece on the bloody things in the Guardian, while in the print edition of the latter (can’t seem to find it online) it looks like I get a quote after … Continue reading →

Reporters Sans Fronti�res in an Alannis Morissette moment. Yep, the Joint Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought winners Reporters Without Borders‘ secretary general, on his way to the UN summit on the future of the internet in Tunisia, was stopped … Continue reading →

Well, well, well – look who’s back… A new, personal jaunt into blogging by the man behind the now defunct Observer blog.

Read. Count yourself lucky. Then read. Agree. Despise The Sun even more. “You did bad things, therefore you deserve no sympathy for having lost a leg in a terrorist attack. You deserved it.” Sound familiar?

What the pissing hell is going on in Uganda? We’ve had attacks on foreign aid workers, the arrest of the opposition leader on charges of treason and rape, had the riots in support, further arrests, more riots, then mysterious gunmen … Continue reading →

A plug – Strangely Rouge. Noticed a while back, and shows a lot of potential. Also check out the attendant flickr account, which has some beautiful stuff. And now I really must get back to that work I should have … Continue reading →

It’s a fairly well-known fact that if you write a blog-post about Britney Spears, lesbians, hot coed teens, cheerleaders or the like, your hit-count will rocket. The same is also true (albeit to a lesser extent) for posts about terrorism. … Continue reading →

Today MEPs are voting on a vast array of chemicals legislation, “REACH” (acronym of “Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals”). If you thought that in itself couldn’t get more tedious, spare a thought for the poor MEPs (most of whom … Continue reading →

The Guardian in “yet another article about blogging” non-shocker! This time focussing on some of the big boys of UK blogging and featuring a few familiar friends – as well as a bunch of people I honestly couldn’t be arsed … Continue reading →