A friendly word for my efforts from Spain-based Owsblog:

One to watch: I’ve just spent a while reading a few posts over on "The World’s First Diplomatic Blogoir", good look, nice ‘feel’ and well written by Charles Crawford.

The Easter weekend’s ‘Smeargate’ hoohah is what led me there, from comments in the Guardian as I recall, but I was struck by a couple of paragraphs that chimed entirely with my own opinion, firstly, as a memo to whomever forms the next UK government:

Be grown-up. Restore and respect Standards and the very idea of Standards – and then take the political hits you deserve when you fall below them.

And help the media grow up too, by not sitting senior journalists in a high chair and feeding them mush…

As previously noted, whereas most readers whiz by this (and most other?) blogs, staying for a quick glance then moving on, some 10% of my readers read quite deep into the site for up to one hour. One endeavours to give satisfaction.

Here’s Owsblog on the declining purity of cocaine. Is nothing beyond corruption?