It’s Sunday, so it must be time for another Britblog Roundup – this piece on dodgy disaster planning in New Orleans in particular stood out as the relief effort finally seems to be kicking into effect. No word yet from … Continue reading →

Good news from New Orleans – even if I didn’t realise he was in danger and thought he’d died years ago…

The same one this blog came third in its category in last year, you say? Nominations open, you say? Click on the thingie below to nominate this blog, you say? Hint hint…

Send me some of the silly-sounding promotional t-shirts you’re giving out prior to the launch of the new “citizen-friendly” EP website and I’ll give you some free publicity. Can’t say fairer than that, surely?

Well that went pretty well. It all started thanks to the insane number of visitors my liveblogging of the 7th July bombs managed to attract. The following evening I received an email from someone (who wishes to remain anonymous) who’d … Continue reading →

The evening went well. The donations for the beer fund were very much appreciated. I was apparently on TV. Thanks to all. More tomorrow. Updated: Courtesy of the missus (like who found it and stuff) here it is – Nosemonkey … Continue reading →

An EU “loyalty oath”? If that idea doesn’t get the eurosceptics all heated up I don’t know what will… It’ll be interesting to see the response to proposals by the EU�s justice and security Commissioner Franco Frattini to “get every … Continue reading →

If anyone else from the media and stuff – or anyone who contributed to the fund, wants to contribute in person, or who had a near-miss on the day – is interested in attending this thank-you booze-up for paramedic volunteers, … Continue reading →

My contribution ended up getting rather lengthy, so I’ve whacked it up at The Sharpener: Uzbekistan blog day: A Central Asian primer and call for action – go read and stuff. Other posts are being compiled by the Disillusioned Kid … Continue reading →

PM urges European modernisation after ‘bra war’ – yep, Tony’s back and jumping on yet another European bandwaggon. Call me a decadent westerner snob by all means, but his calls for “Europe as a whole to modernise to meet the … Continue reading →

As I’ve done one Iraq post, may as well do another: Reuters cameraman ordered held in Abu Ghraib – “A cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad’s Abu … Continue reading →

This is what is known in the trade as fucking awful. More than 640 dead, 230 injured in Baghdad thanks to mere RUMOURS of possible suicide bombers, following mortar attacks on a crowd of religious pilgrims. It should by now … Continue reading →

I’ve finally sorted it all out once and for all. The money is ready and waiting behind the bar and the piss-up will commence at some point after work on Thursday. It’s still not too late if you want to … Continue reading →

Heh – I’d missed this while away, but going back through those anti-Kilroy posts got me hunting around for news of the silver-haired idiot, who appears to have been keeping an uncharacteristically low profile of late. So anyway, a bunch … Continue reading →