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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

There has been some discussion of late about who has the most visitors to their blog. I’m sure that I don’t compare to some of the participants in the discussion who, Priapus-like, wave their impressive statistics for all to see.
Google Analytics, Statcounter and the like are, ultimately, hobbyist tools. A website seeking to make [...]

Two British newspapers have admitted something quite remarkable; lying. The Daily Express and the Daily Star have respectively published apologies to Kate and Gerry McCann for publishing stories for which there was “no evidence whatsoever” (Daily Express, 19 March). It’s a shame that they didn’t print something in their apology with a greater degree of [...]

As I have said before, I am fan of the BBC. That does not mean it receives my unqualified support.
I’m afraid I think that the arguments of the ‘Biased BBC’ et al. are rather mean-spirited. Although I disagree with it very strongly, there is a perfectly respectable argument against the BBC’s existence. You could, for [...]

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 [...]

BBC News 24 this evening has gone, antibathetically, from the ridiculous to the sublime. The ridiculous - deserving of ridicule - was footage of a parked car which might or might not have driven Kevin Federline, the estranged husband of Britney Spears, to a courthouse. Ms Spears might have been in the courthouse or, according [...]

A group has been set up on Facebook called (in capitals, so it must be important) ‘Vote Stop the War Coalition for Channel 4 News Award’. It reads rather like the headlines of spam emails and the content of the group is similarly inaccurate. The award in question is ‘most inspiring political personality of the [...]

EastEnders is one of the most profoundly dangerous programmes on television and probably does more to promote the Daily Express nightmare vision of a violent, broken society than that newspaper itself. My objection isn’t to soap operas per se - to a large extent, I agree with Jeremy Bentham about pushpin being as valid an [...]