Iain Dale is running his 2009 popularity survey of political blogging. But to register a vote for your favourite blogs, including eg this one, you must nominate a full ten blogs. No need to give a category. Last year this Blog made it into the Total Politics Top Twenty Libertarian […]
Numerous Crawfs have made it safely back home after two weeks in sizzling Greek sunshine, freed from the temptation to look at the Meejer via the Internet during this period by the fact that the clueless hotel had no wireless capability and a solitary Internet computer charged out at €5 […]
Is here. At Philobiblon, often Green, always feminist. A couple of links caught my eye. Can a blogger be a credible candidate for Parliament, or are there likely to be too many free-thinking hostage to fortune quotes on the blog for oponents to dig out? Libertarian Lib-Dem Charlotte Gore reckons […]
Undeterred by doing worse than the British National Party in the 2005 election result in Blackburn, former Ambassador Craig Murray is back on the campaign trail. He is running as a local lad independent candidate in the North Norwich by-election, under the slogan "honest people can fight back". And he is going […]
Craig Murray writes approvingly of the zany survey of political opinions run by Political Compass. But it was posted at 0200 hrs, so maybe baby Cameron Murray was stopping him getting a much needed rest. Read the Political Compass FAQs. They are a hoot. See eg this description of why […]
Craig Murray is included on Brian Micklethwait’s list of UK libertarian bloggers and, ingrate that he is, starts moaning about the list – emphasis added: In the vast majority of cases, libertarian here plainly means "right wing conservative" or "neo-con" … The peculiar thing is, that these neo-con "Libertarians" have, by […]
Brian Micklethwait has compiled a handy list of British libertarian blogs of different shapes and sizes. And very distracting it is too. PM Gordon Brown gets grilled on his dodgy expenses at Capitalists@Work. And Nanny Knows Best has several postings on the murderous implications of buying teaspoons at local UK […]
Back from Sweden. There the blogosphere is a mighty force in Swedish society. In a country of a bit more than 9 million people there look to be nearly 250,000 blogs. It looks as if the government there are struggling to work out how to deal with this formidable citizen […]
Here is Bagehot at the Economist on why the Internet’s role in UK politics is mainly destructive: But it, and especially YouTube, are at least becoming an important destructive element in British politics, able as they are to cultivate that most poisonous and final of political responses: ridicule. Take three […]
The latest BBRU tersely hosted by Matt Wardman is posted. Various handy links, including this to the vividly designed Andrew Ian Dodge website which in turn links to a fatuous EU Quiz. As Andrew points out, the eccentric questions are loaded in a trivially anti-libertarian way. Or is the EU […]
