Tiberius Gracchus has linked me to a mutual friend’s new blog, so hello to the aptly-named Vino’s Political Blog.
One of his posts is on PR. He does seem to be leaning towards a majoritarian, FPTP system. I understand the argument, but I disagree with it. He critcises PR for not giving a strong government, but […]

I’ve added a new link to the sidebar - Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg, named, of course, for the inventor of movable type, Johannes Gutenberg, provides free, complete, online literary works that are out of copyright in the US. They can be read on a computer screen in a variety of formats. There are fully 20,000 […]

I’ve been tagged by Matt Sinclair.
1. I have a collection of hats
2. I like bath salts
3. I have an old, Soviet camera called a Zenit-B and a selection of lenses for it bought on eBay
4. Tony Blair has voted for me… at the 2006 council elections, I stood (unsuccessfully) in St James ward in […]

At an event organised by LSE Labour, I heard Hazel Blears speak last night on feminism as part of the LSE SU’s Women’s Week.
Anyone would think there’s a deputy leadership election coming up - Hillary Benn on the Tuesday, Hazel Blears on the Wednesday.
I thought Hazel did well; for one thing, she actually spoke on […]

At the moment, various Christian denominations, principally the Roman Catholic Church but also the Church of England in the form of Archbishops Williams and Sentamu, are saying that Catholic adoption agencies should be allowed to discriminate against homosexual couples.
Let us substitute the word ‘black’ for the word ‘homosexual’. The argument is the same, but it […]

The social networking site Facebook has been used in criminal and university investigations and, anecdotally, to look at potential employees’ characteristics that they choose not to show at interview. Such is the power of the site - it feels safe and private, but it’s easy enough to find out about someone.
Beyond that, embarassing photos are […]

There is a tendency among the right of the Labour Party to decry any attack on the current leadership of the party as ultra-left nonsense and that we should shut up because we’re just damaging the party.
Certainly, there are occasions when this is true. There is a tendency amongst ministers to rediscover their leftist principles […]

The Evening Standard reports that the Labour Party has accepted money from the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), a group connected to the Church of Scientology. I have particular concerns about this - I see a psychiatrist regularly. The conflict between Scientology and psychiatry is relatively well known, but Wikipedia provides a good […]

Matt Sinclair, via Marginal Revolution, links to a widget that lets you see geographically which countries you’ve visisted. Mine are:

create your own visited countries map
I’m not doing too badly on US states either:

create your own visited states map
There are some other interesting things on the website that created these two maps, douweosinga.com - look at […]

I’ve been listed on www.bloggers4labour.org. Yay.

That is all.

xD.