I’m sure I’m not the only one who winced when they saw a mention of Charles Clarke on Iain Dale’s Diary, and not just because of the post’s title (Charles Clarke launches grenade at Balls). Mr Clarke is a serial troublemaker who seems determined to cause as many problems as possible shortly before an election. [...]

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Tim Ireland of Bloggerheads is wondering what to do next - Murdochwatch or campaigning on libel law reform. I think libel law reform; go over there and speak your peace.
Note the Second
Aaron Heath of Tygerland is pausing his blogging. Go over there and tell him not to pause for too long.
Note the Third
This [...]

Professor Erik Ringmar will be on iPM on BBC Radio Four talking about liberating old papers. Do listen as it’s an important one. Partly, it’s about free information being freely available, but some of the things that should be freely available already aren’t. The case in point (as Erik writes in the Times Higher) is [...]

Hopi Sen has an unofficial attack ad against Boris Johnson. A little bit of photoshopping and we have the front page the Evening Standard would like to run - click on the image to make it larger.

It’s also worth reading Septic Isle’s thoughts on the Standard.
xD.

It said so on the Tube, so it must be true.

xD.
PS & if anyone wants to edit the photo to put in Gordon B, be my guest!

Chris Dillow is less than impressed with Jack Straw and Alistair Campbell as he and most people regard them as having negative credibility. I feel that Chris – and given his intellectual firepower, I’m rather worried about saying this – is rather missing the point. He’s not the audience – it just happens that he’s [...]

Number One - be divisive and pursue old vendettas.
There cannot be many things within the Labour party that would unite Luke Akehurst and Peter Kenyon. Charles Clarke has managed to find one. Strangely enough, ordinary Labour party members don’t think that now is the opportune moment, shortly before local and London elections, to start talking [...]

My post, ‘Nothing about us without us‘, is up on Liberal Conspiracy. In response to some pretty poor arguments from ‘Nick’, Pennyred has a great putdown:
“HUGE straw man there, of the type Christopher Lee might dance around.”
Nice one, Pennyred. I’ll be weighing in again shortly.
xD.

On May 1, Londoners will choose the Mayor and London Assembly for the next four years.
In 2004, low turnout in the London elections allowed the BNP to receive 4.9% of the London Assembly vote — dangerously close to the 5% threshold required to win a seat.
You can register to vote using the information on the [...]

I am glad that Rowan Williams has condemned the attacks on homosexuals in Nigeria and the death threats against the Rev. Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude (an organisation that campaigns for acceptance of LGBT people within Christianity). You can read copies of the death threats here.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that the condemnations from Williams [...]