Welcome Britblog Roundup 189 Visitors Here is a summary of the European Parliament’s latest pronouncement on the media (including bloggers). You’ll recall the original pernicious idea to ‘validate’ bloggers. The full text of the ghastly resolution – 4352 words long – is here. It is an exemplary Liberal Fascist document. […]
The article accompanying the Total Politics UK Political Blogs Top 50 argues that "the right-of-centre hegemony, which has dominated the UK blogosphere for several years, seems to be at an end". Why? Because, according to TP, over half the top 500 political blogs incline to the left. That’s as maybe. Pity so […]
James Barbour from deep Moscow has tagged me in a new Internet game of One’s Three Inspirational Communicators. The idea originated as (of course) a New Wave PR meme, but is none the worse for that. So at the risk of being earnestly irrelevant as the world’s financial system totters, here goes. What […]
What is the precise mechanism which makes people start to talk in arch post-modern jargon? Like this: Labour needs to provide a convincing new narrative if left-of-centre politics are to remain the driving force in Britain. Or this: Mr Brown and Mr Darling must find new ways of telling a […]
Russia’s PM Putin and President Medvedev have been hosting groups of Western journalists, to quite good effect from the Russian point of view. Even if some of the language used by Putin might have been a bit … overvivid. A tendency also visible these days in the robust style of Russian […]
Help! The US media are being manipulated! By Sarah Palin! And they are getting cross about it. But how convincing is their fury? Not very: When Howie claims he’s getting really really mad, I wonder if he realizes he sounds like Elmer Fudd warning Bugs Bunny "You’re making me vewy […]
"If someone truly understands how to create menace and uncertainty and mistrust, then how to exploit and magnify the presence of these disconcerting elements, the loop can be vicious, a terribly destructive force, virtually unstoppable in causing panic and confusion and — Boyd’s phrase is best — ‘unraveling the competition.’ […]
Craig Murray is having more problems getting his views published, this time on various important African issues. He complains at great length that various concerns expressed by his lawyers and publishers about passages in his new book amount to ‘censorship’ and a massive suppression of free speech: … under this country’s […]
Quirky old Polish film posters are rightly being lauded at the Daily Telegraph. I know a good place to buy them in Krakow.
The piece by PM Gordon Brown in Monitor magazine which gives a positive word to the Obama campaign is here. It has caused a fuss. Bad form for a foreign leader to make remarks of this sort? But listen to this: Labour party sources have suggested may have in fact […]
