Prince Harry (or Cornet-2/Lt Wales or possibly Widow-Six-Seven, depending on who you ask) has fulfilled his wish to fight for his grandmother and country. It would seem that this was a sop to him for not resign his commission because he hadn’t been allowed to fight in the manner he had been trained - commander [...]

I will be filling in for Garbo while he is on holiday for his ‘Politics Decoded‘ Column on the Wardman Wire. My first one is up today and it deals with Kosovo and Serbia.
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The Financial Times reports on the government’s proposals to do ’something’ about illegal file sharing. That something is to make ISPs the law enforcer; they will be penalised if people use their networks to share files. There has been talk of a ‘three-strikes’ system whereby ISPs would be obliged to remove service from their customers [...]

I used to think that Mr Eugenides would have been pronounced ‘you-jen-uh-dees’. It turns out it’s ‘you-juh-neye-dees’. Either way, I recommend his blog and, via Matt Wardman, his contribution to a podcast on the best blogs of the past week.
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Franz Kafka’s instruction to his literary executor, Max Brod, was very clear: burn everything. Mercifully, he did not. Equally fortunately for students of history, there are many collections of private papers that show people’s inner thoughts, their correspondences and what came across their desks that they could not or would not allow to come to [...]

Matt Wardman ran a very interesting online symposium in the wake of the Conway affair in which he kindly asked me to participate. I’m going to write some thoughts when I’ve had time to digest the various posts, but in the meantime, do please look at the five posts from Tim Ireland (who can also [...]

Matt Wardman has invited some bloggers to contribute articles on MP’s compensation. Quoth the raven:
This week we are trying to think through some new ideas, so I’ve organised an “online symposium”. There will be an article published each day by a different guest poster - from different viewpoints.
A sneak preview of my contribution is up [...]

I am in favour of free speech and I am opposed to strategic lawsuits against public participation. I therefore encourage you to visit Tim Ireland’s blog and decide for yourself. I would suggest that Paul Staines is acting in a distinctly unpleasant manner.
Staines has added this little piece of code to his website:

 
 
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Like Paul Evans of Hot, Ginger and Dynamite, I hail from Somerset but live in London. Paul has given a ‘State of the Blogosphere’ address in advance of President George W Bush’s final State of the Union address. In anticipation of the final opposition response to a State of the Union address by Bush, this [...]

The main reason I write, from time to time, about Paul Staines, who posts as Guido Fawkes at order-order.com, is that he has achieved some publicity as a blogger, but the manner in which he blogs is bad for blogging, bad for journalism and bad for democracy. He is the Daily Express of blogging - [...]