Various bloggers are trying to crank up interest in an online No 10 petition politely asking the Prime Minister to resign. Just over 6000 people have supported so far. Not bad – but also not so many, given the state of the country? Fear not. There is still lots of time for […]
Wrinkled Weasel has been sharing some interesting ideas with me on the value or not of blogging as a propaganda tool. He argues that blogging lacks ‘semiotic subtlety/stability’: Unless you state your case unequivocally, the point tends to get missed. If one were to attempt a propaganda blog, the writer […]
Former Ambassador Brian Barder has been trying to crank up the argument that Guido has to carry a sizeable share of the blame for spreading the odious contents of the McBride emails: … virtually all the smear stories sent privately as possible blog material by McBride to Draper are now […]
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 […]
Take this story leading in the Telegraph this morning: Downing Street is at the centre of a fresh security scare after it emerged that private emails written by one of Gordon Brown’s senior officials had ended up in the hands of one of Britain’s most controversial political bloggers. The emails, […]
Sorry readers. An exhausting couple of days clearing out the parental garage. This old radio of mine emerged – a hefty but magnificent Pye Cambridge International. One of these cost a huge 42 guineas in 1954, the auspicious year of my birth. Not easy to say with any certainty what […]
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 have too many books. I came from a schoolteacher family which piled up books and never gave any away. If we wanted a book, it was bought. So, a lot of books. Mostly read at least once. Very few read more than once. Some barely skimmed. They take up space […]
You are no doubt wondering what a condemned man might look like after being tied to a stake then shot at by a few hundred people with machine guns. The answer? Not much left except a dark red bloody splodge and a strong smell of singed meat. With that thought […]
Here is a hard-hitting analysis of what is indeed a strange and nasty anti-Israel cartoon by a ‘fiery’ Australia cartoonist, picked up in various newspapers in the USA which (perhaps) ought to know better. This might be said to be a first-class Fisking of a cartoon – taking each element of […]
