I’m off to Germany this afternoon for a conference. Blogging may well be light over the next few days, depending on the availability of wireless internet. If anyone is in Frankfurt this evening and wants to buy me a beer, drop me an email.
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Susanne Lamido of Suzblog has the latest Britblog Roundup over at her place.
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The blogger formerly known as Mr Stop Boris has a new home on the web, so go and check out Pushing the Boundary.
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If I were able to vote in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, I would vote for Shan Oakes, the Green Party candidate and I encourage anyone who lives in the constituency to vote for Shan. Her blog is here; her party website is here; her Facebook is here; and her Wikipedia entry is here.
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The Sun opens its story “Nazi terrorist is caged for 16 years” on the conviction and sentencing of Martyn Gilleard, would-be promoter of a race war, with the line:
A CROSS-dressing Nazi racist was jailed for 16 years yesterday on child porn and terrorism charges.
Let me begin by saying that I am delighted that Gilleard [...]

Last night’s Blog Nation gathering at the Guardian’s offices was interesting. Two main things came out of it for me.
1. There’s no such thing as blogging
Or rather, there’s no one thing called blogging. It’s a clever piece of software, coupled with the internet, that allows people to do different things. Just ‘political blogs’ covers sites [...]

Oh, and raising some money for the party, too.

On Thursday July 10, the Labour is having a second sports celebration dinner at Wembley. At the dinner, or online at labour.org.uk/sport, you can bid on exclusive items such as:
Specially commissioned Antony Gormley work of art
A tennis match with Tony Blair
Visit to museum on Robben Island in [...]

I attended last night’s Blog Nation event hosted by Liberal Conspiracy and the Guardian. I’ll write it up later, once I have my thoughts in order, but I wanted to quickly thank Cath Elliott, who writes for Comment is Free, for linking to my post on Nadine Dorries’ use of statistics1 from this post of [...]

The news that the UN Security Council has issued a statement condemning Robert Mugabe with the support of Thabo Mbeki’s South Africa is good news. After condemnation from Rwanda’s premier, Paul Kigame, and others, it seems that no-one in Africa, at least of any political substance, supports the Mugabe regime.
I think statements like this can [...]

The next two installations for the Fourth Plinth have been announced; they are Antony Gormley’s One and Other and Yinka Shonibare MBE’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle. I’m delighted than Shonibare’s entry was chosen – I wrote about it here. As I said then, I think a model of HMS Victory would be particularly appropriate [...]