Promising new Euro-centric political discussion fora, courtesy of Der Spiegel. Launched yesterday, so hasn’t quite kicked off yet, but could be worth a look.

1) “Man gets life for raping 12-week old baby” 2) “Thugs used broken bottles to cut off a man’s eyelids and ears while robbing him of just �1.50… The boys are believed to be 13 or 14.” (From this morning’s … Continue reading →

The UK Today is back up and running, noting that, thanks to clutching at fame on Big Brother, that knobber George Galloway will miss the Crossrail Bill debate on Thursday – despite it promising to have a major impact on … Continue reading →

Ukraine parliament sacks government? According to the BBC’s ticker-tape, at any rate, but no details as of yet. Either way, after Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov defended the Russian gas deal earlier today, it looks like the MPs haven’t bought it. … Continue reading →

After yesterday’s nonsense about “community calls to action” (formerly known as “dialling 999”), New Labour appear to be turning into the Daily Mail. From their latest email propaganda missive: “In my local shop, at the bus stop, I would rage … Continue reading →

The end of anonymous blogging in the US? – “Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.” Yes. Really. “Whoever…utilizes any device or software … Continue reading →

Tony Blair proposes yet another pointless waste of time and resources in a platitudinous attempt to gain favourable tabloid press. “Face the people sessions”? “Community calls to action”? A “national parenting academy”? What the pissing hell? Please also note the … Continue reading →

Nosemonkey elsewhere: A bit of speculation on what 2006 may hold in store for the EU over at The Sharpener. I was going to post it here as well, but it got a bit out of hand length-wise…

That’s one more decent, respectable former Labour minister gone then. Good man, Tony Banks. Wrong on a lot of issues and had an irritating voice, but a good man nonetheless. Utterly unrelatedly, the Britblog Roundup is up.

Nice going, guys. Hound out of office the only one of you anyone knows and likes (bar Lembit Opik, who no one takes seriously), and show yourselves up to be a bunch of infighting, childish morons in the process. Lib … Continue reading →

The Observer blog has regrouped for one last gig prior to this weekend’s relaunch

Old friends remember Tony Blair: “Blair’s tendency was to bend the rules, but rarely break them… Instead, he enjoyed the game of infuriating the masters and escaping punishment.” “He did have this disarming ability to never look crestfallen, so he … Continue reading →

Is government censorship collapsing? “To succeed with any legal action, we would have to demonstrate clearly to a court that real damage would result from publication. From previous experience and advice … we know that the damage threshold is very … Continue reading →

Well done, George Galloway. Serving your constituents pissing brilliantly by being locked up in the celebrity Big Brother house, aren’t you, you mustachioed fuckwit? Though, as that other blogging monkey notes, you could lock the twat up for a year … Continue reading →