A response to Gary Younge in today’s Guardian.

There has been a lot of commentary about the effect of President Bush’s veto of the bill linking funding for the US armed forces to a timetable for withdrawal. The usually excellent Gary Younge misses a trick, though, on this one in today’s Guardian.

His argument is that the […]

Iain Dale has become an expert on the fairer sex. It would seem, sadly, that Iain Dale’s idea of not being sexist is, er, stereotyping women. Quoth the raven:
In this increasingly presidential age, his softer approach will be judged against the aggression of Gordon Brown. Women do not like great clunking fists. They don’t like […]

I have an idea for an online deputy leadership hustings. There is, in the form of Bloggers4Labour, a community of Labour activists who blog and who are trying to promote the medium. The Conservative blogosphere grew around the time of Cameron’s election; perhaps the Labour blogosphere should do the same now.
The idea is:
Members of Bloggers4Labour […]

A Bloggers4Labour meeting took place on Monday evening and it was really rather good. Yes, there was geekery - Labour geekery, computer geekery and even ale geekery - but it was all very good natured. I’m going to do a couple of posts, on Labour blogging and blogging in general,1 but what strikes me is […]

In light of today’s PMQs and the debate about whether MPs should be excluded from Freedom of Information requests, it’s worth pointing out that ministers can’t decide themselves whether they can or can’t answer questions about meetings they’ve had. Norman Baker has been asking some dull questions (and, yes, I know he’s a LibDem) and […]

thelondonpaper, one of the freesheets in, er, London reports on page six of its edition of the 23rd of April both that there will be seaplanes taking of from the Thames in the region of the city and that people are likely to have their quality of life damaged by more planes in stacks over […]

30% for Sarko, 25% for Sego. 85% turned out to vote; I think this is a combination of wanting to make absolutely sure that Le Pen didn’t get anywhere and that it’s a contested election.
It is initially hard to see where Sego’s support will come from. Certainly, you’d hope that the left would vote for […]

The government’s stated intention is for half the population to have experience of higher and further education. The precise definition doesn’t matter any more than whether it was originally university or H/FE. The idea is that we have to have a highly-skilled economy to compete against India and China and so lots of people have […]

I wrote the new template for my blog according to the standards for XHTML laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium. Mozilla, which runs to these standards, displays my template without any problems. Internet Explorer, however, does not run to these standards and so does not display my blog properly.
For an internet browser to […]

Well, after a few days of fiddling with HTML and CSS instead of posting and a few hours of trying to make Blogger work, I have a new template designed and built by, er, me. Comments gratefully received.
xD.
PS - I know that the other posts are in Arial. New posts will appear in this font. […]