BBRU 280 is up at Redemption Blues.

The host, Chameleon, loves to take these blog links on their merits (and, yes, many of them do have merits!) and mull over the ideas they prompt.

Plus she has this excellent passage on the idea that we have too many consumerist ‘choices’:

I may well have been conditioned since birth to buy into the illusion of choice, but quite frankly, I would rather eat my own intestines wrapped around a stick than surrender my autonomy. 

True enough, I have accumulated considerable reserves of educational, cultural and social capital along the way, but from very inauspicious beginnings and I am damned if I am going to let some drooling bureaucrat issuing an edict about where to send my offspring to have the three Rs drummed into them.

And this, looking at a posting by Craig Murray:

One sentence jars, however: “Julian tells us that the first woman accuser and prime mover had worked in the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC and had been expelled from Cuba for anti-Cuban government activity, as well as the rather different persona of being a feminist lesbian who owns lesbian night clubs”.

This leaves a sour taste, as Murray uncritically and gratuitously regurgitates completely irrelevant details – irrelevant and gratuitous that is, unless you wish to imply that being a lesbian and, to make matters worse, a feminist undermines the woman’s credibility, as if these two alleged attributes render her testimony inherently untrustworthy or mendacious, as if you were happy to indulge in a little character assassination yourself. 

Ha!

So pour yourself a stiff drink and plunge in to this subtle, bumper effort.

I am hosting the next BBRU. The whole point of this exercise is that the hosts publicise blog links sent in by the masses. If anyone has spotted something good by a British blogger which merits a wider audience, please send it to britblog @ gmail.com and I’ll aim to include it.