One of my favourite blogs, Bloggerheads, has been taken down because of the actions of one Alisher Usamnov. From Chicken Yoghurt:
Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. You can thank the latest Russian (that should be Uzbek) billionaire to reach the UK. The details will come out in due [...]

According to VAJoe.com, I have an 83.33% match with Dennis Kucinich. Other matches are Barack Obama (71.67%) and John Edwards (67.5%). Hillary comes in at 65.00%.
The full list of my matches is:
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) - 75.83%Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) - 71.67%New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) - 69.17%Former North Carolina Senator [...]

If you consider yourself of the leftwing persuasion and want a high-brow newspaper, you’ll take The Guardian; its opposite number, identifying more firmly with the Tories than Guardianistas do with Labour, would be The Daily Telegraph. At the bottom end of the scale (well, just above The Daily Star) would be The Sun for the [...]

I just went to see 3:10 to Yuma, the remake of the 1957 film with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe as the main characters. I greatly enjoyed it and would happily see it again; I’m not sure whether it will become a classic, but it is a very good film.
**Spoiler warning**
The end of the film [...]

I’ve just come home from the Thames Festival with Alice, which was a lot of fun, with a carnival, floats, performers, food, stalls, fireworks and an altogether lovely atmosphere. Of that, more later, along with photos, but in the meantime here is one with which I am pleased.
and one in a similar vein from Alice:
xD.

The Daily Mail Lite, aka Metro, writes on page eight to say that Dickens had it all wrong and that, in fact, child labourers in Victorian England were happy little scamps. Admittedly, they were, according to a report of the time, in “evident poverty, want of clothing and, in many cases, sufficient food” and were [...]

I was delighted to receive a response from my MP, Mark Field, that was supportive of the Iraqi interpreters.
The body reads:
Thank you so much for your letter of [date] regarding the asylum applications of Iraqi interpreters who have worked for the British Army.I appreciate and understand your worry about the future of the interpreters, particularly [...]