For some bracing feminist-inclined fresh air after all this fetid Westminster stuff, swing by BBRU 217 hosted by Philobiblon. Plenty of gripping links. Not least this startling account of the way Jersey is run these days. And this angry but confused piece from Penny Red about why it’s OK – […]
Michael White at the Guardian broods on the what the headline over his piece terms "… the rightwing dominance of political blogosphere". Thus: If I understand the situation correctly, McBride got mixed up with Labour blogger and psychotherapist, Derek Draper – not always a wise move – in trying to […]
Welcome Britblog Roundup fans to the first BBRU hosted here on my site. To get into the right frame of mind in compiling the roundup I decided to look back to 20 February 2005. On that momentous day Tim Worstall launched the first ever Britblog Roundup. Here it is. […]
At the ASI Politics and the Blog event I had a word with Guido to ask how he saw the secret of his success. He said that his own blogging phenomenon had started to grow strongly in 2005 when he had linked a Labour poster attacking Michael Howard to classic anti-semitic […]
I sat in this evening on a lively discussion at the Adam Smith Institute on Politics and the Blog. The lead speakers were Guido and John Redwood – a contrast in style and substance. Among those I recognised with my ebbing eyesight were Brian Micklethwait, Tim Worstall, Dr Helen Szamuely and […]
Nick Cohen puts a grammatically challenged question: Who (sic) would you rather trust – the BBC or a blogger? Back in about 1992 I was moved for the first time ever to write a letter to the BBC to complain about a news-clip from South Africa (where I had just […]
A strange article from the Guardian about the crisis in the British ‘equalities watchdog’ (sic) as one by one senior people jump off – are even hard-core social democrats so appalled by what is happening to their own creations that they are going John Galt? The deliciously named author of this piece Amelia […]
Dan Hannan MEP has delivered a blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a terse but sharp address in the European Parliament which has been picked up on YouTube and seen by hundreds of thousands of people: Dan is well on the libertarian end of the political spectrum in the UK, so it […]
Soaring sales of Ayn Rand’s books in the USA (Atlas Shrugged is high at number 30 in the Amazon bestsellers list) are rattling supposedly progressive thinkers over here. See eg the Guardian desperately falling back on those two honest thinkers Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek to try to put people […]
On day one! Otherwise a new British Conservative government has failed! Thus: On the first day of your government, you should close down the BBC. You should take it off air. You should disclaim its copyrights. You should throw all its staff into the street. You should not try to […]
