A deep dive in what the Tigray vs Ethopian central government fight is about. People in the DRC President’s entourage keep dying unexpectedly. Some of them caught COVID-19 but at least one was definitely assassinated and another had both a heart attack and multiple blows to the head. What’s happening? A group of Kenyans wanted…
Read More Four links from a consistently strong blogMy old student mate Julian Hofmann, half-German and I don’t know what, has given up on Private Eye and pharma industry trade journalism in favour of raising beef cattle in Devon. The blog is here. I find this a little bit funny. Julian is one of the most comprehensively bookish people I’ve ever met. At…
Read More department of mates’ ratesSo last week I asked readers to take a view on what I might blog, swinging off an idea of Andrew Gelman‘s. The post was here. The lucky winners got a piece on Ukraine, the proliferation of SIGINT technology, and Ed Snowden, and a joint review of two books about Russia, plus a lot of…
Read More TYR open newslist, the secondJosh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo and this blog go way back. So I’m disappointed in this. Specifically, I am concerned about the exact service the drug pushers are paying Marshall for. OK so. Basically everyone searches the Web. A lot of people who consume news get it from search-driven sources like Google News. Typically something…
Read More Spam is a political issueSo Francis Irving wants to read blogs again: @yorksranter I never *completely* stopped! omg, yours is still a valid politics blog, partying like it was 2004! any other good ones? — Francis Irving (@frabcus) March 17, 2014 I was tempted to say that, hey, you hosted the blog all those years, but then the retort…
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Read More Data pointI started a blog. Alternative title: I gave my youth to this project and all I got was this lousy Tory government.
Read More 10 years ago today…When I started hearing about a blogger called Brown Moses, who collated Syrian rebel videos and identified unexploded ordnance, and regularly posted remarkably sharp depth pieces on the Leveson inquiry, I assumed this person was some retired six-letter agency type with their SAS badge on the mantelpiece, in the formaldehyde jar, stuck through Jimmy Savile’s…
Read More So you think you’re a bloggerSpeaking of the Simple Plan, I am assured that the Liberal Conspiracy piece is coming Real Soon Now. Meanwhile, I’m seriously considering offering it to Conservative Home.
Read More UpdateOther stuff from Netroots UK. Having chugged through my official Brown Bag Lunch (which actually included Ribena, in a disturbingly infantilising touch), I went to the open space group on the Leveson inquiry. This ended up merging with the one on the LIBOR scandal. I was able to contribute by knowing how the LIBOR panel…
Read More Netroots UK catchup