Now, everybody – I’d like you to be nice to the new boy…(via): “The BBC is about to start a trial series of blogs, each of which will be built using the kind of software employed by millions of weblogs … Continue reading →

Following Mr McKeating’s puerile observation, I’m afraid I just had to go and take it too far… Update: Oh, and they’ve sorted the voting on that Weblog Awards thing if you want to be nice. Ta etc.

A quickie, because I’ve found a spare five minutes and keep forgetting how much of a fucking idiot Polly Toynbee is. Wait – CS Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia are, like, a Christian allegory? REALLY? Well there’s something that no one’s … Continue reading →

Light blogging rather likely this week. Insanely busy. Sorry, etc. Will ramble on as usual as and when I find a moment.

Looks like I’ve made the shortlist for “Best UK Blog” in the 2005 Weblog Awards. Hurrah. Damn tough field though – I’m up against the likes of Samuel Pepys, Londonist, and a wide range of the usual, far more popular … Continue reading →

Following his amusing piss-take a few days back, blogging Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell has returned with an evidently long-considered, demolition of Labour’s Education White Paper. The palpable exasperation of this old Labourite is almost painful. Can’t say I agree with … Continue reading →

Busy again today, so light/nonexistent blogging, I’m afraid. But I really ought to provide some info on the latest rebate spat. As the rebate’s based on regional spending, it fluctuates from year to year. It’s currently worth about �5bn a … Continue reading →

Busy as hell, so go read Mark Mardell’s Europe diary, which features the intriguing information that he’s been filming a programme for BBC4 called “My Euro Blog” – although from his description it would appear blogging plays no part in … Continue reading →

Calling new(ish) political bloggers: Come, tell us you exist and stuff.

Oooh – I like this! Another critical examination of the British political blogosphere to complement my lengthy ramble yesterday. (And yet another description of me to add to the last couple of weeks’ pile of “progressive lefty” and “Tory”: I’m … Continue reading →

Yet another example of how Blair and co are trying to screw us by abusing the mechanisms EU (via): “On 1-2 December 2005, European Union justice and security ministers at a Council of the European Union meeting in Brussels plan … Continue reading →

UK Blogging: cliques and changes – a new (rather lengthy) post by me at The Sharpener. Apologies in advance for any boredom that ensues…

Forgot to mention this: a good overview of ID cards in history from Chris Lightfoot, which helps give some context not only to the inanity of the current proposals, but also to the government’s methods of trying to introduce them. … Continue reading →

How do you fancy getting paid to brainwash our nation’s youth? Oh, sorry… Did I say “brainwash our nation’s youth”? I meant, erm… “run an educational project about the EU. This includes a nationwide programme of sceptical talks for sixth-formers, … Continue reading →