Ha ha ha! Thanks to Amazon’s “Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for” thingie, I’ve just had my suspicions confirmed – bloggers are all self-obsessed onanists. On the page for our man Worstall‘s anthology of British blogging (in … Continue reading →

Public Service Announcement: Human Rights group Liberty has organised some potentially interesting public meetings this week as parliament returns to discuss Blair’s mental anti-terror legislation. On Wednesday at Central Hall, Westminster, 6:30pm they’ve got an interesting line-up of speakers to … Continue reading →

Defence Secretary John Reid: “Iraq has achieved in 14 months what it has taken this country several centuries to achieve” Eh? I know this country’s gone to shit recently, but I still don’t seem to recall car bombs and suicide … Continue reading →

.eu domain pre-registration now open, prior to the launch of the new web address wotsit in the new year. Bad news for Eurosceptics though – someone’s already booked fuck.eu – although screw.eu, stopthe.eu, leavethe.eu and ihatethe.eu are all still available. … Continue reading →

Blair government in “ill thought-out legislation” shocker! Yep – once again a supposedly bold initiative is being dropped because they didn’t think it through properly – this time the pub smoking ban. Which for those of us who like a … Continue reading →

Why! It’s the Blair government!. Yep, much as with the whole mad cow disease thing – and bovine TB, for that matter – rather than fork out on funding vaccination research and production they’ve sat on their fat city-based arses … Continue reading →

Result! – I bet my mother’s so very proud…

Ken Clarke in trouble? Looks like some of his business buddies are trying to eject him from one of the many boards he sits on – this one being his Chairmanship of Savoy Asset Management. Could throw a spanner in … Continue reading →

It’s like that sodding bit in Being John Malkovich where old John pops through the portal into his own head and stuff. Everywhere you turn now, people are raving about the Tory whizkid. The Herald runs with the story that … Continue reading →

Combine the spectacular, life-affirming delights of sweet, sweet booze and wonderous, soothing, stress-reducing cigarettes in one beatific product. I love the Germans sometimes. Not often, but sometimes… (Says the man whose grandmother’s maiden name was M�ller…)

Gah – busy… To make up for it, have Mark Mardell’s latest European Diary, complete with reader comments – somewhat amazingly with only one that’s decidedly eurosceptic, the others berating Mardell for not being pro-EU enough… Also catching the eye: … Continue reading →

Not too chuffed about Blair’s actions on civil liberties, the war on terror and Iraq? Don’t mind your face being on the interweb? Tim Ireland needs you.

Nosemonkey elsewhere – Six Degrees #1 the first in a new series of weekly posts I’m planning to do at The Sharpener. A blogland journey from European politics to Japanese paper lanterns – by way of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, … Continue reading →

Nosemonkey elsewhere – a quick summary of problems between Russia and the EU as Vladimir Putin chats with European leaders in London today – over at EU News.