So dodgy Russians have bullied Fasthosts into darking Craig Murray’s blog, as well as a gaggle of others on the same virtual machine. (Iron-clad integrity *and* technical chops; what more do you want?) Naturally, this has only spread the poison; so here’s the complete text. Kindly post it on your own blog. In a creative…
Read More Mirrorball: Usmanov vs Craig MurrayOK, so they invited some “milbloggers” to see the commander guy, and what did Defensetech find to ask him? Sweet fuck all of any consequence. Too busy gawping at teh White House crockery. Hell, I suppose I should have expected this; the creation of Wired‘s Danger Room essentially stripped it of talent, with David Axe,…
Read More Defensetech is obsoleteI nearly forgot. It’s four years and five days since the very first post on this weblog. And it’s Magna Carta day! To mark the blog’s anniversary, I’d like some of the lurkers to stick their heads out from their stones. Who are you all?
Read More Four More Years!In case you’re wondering what the fuss is about, the Daily Hell is trying to get Owen Barder fired from the DFID for saying rude things about George Bush and Margaret Thatcher and nice things about Neil Kinnock. Rather, they’re trying to get him fired for quoting rude things about George Bush, not erasing a…
Read More Slightly less intemperate responseEveryone’s vexed (h/t to Dan Hardie) about the spankin’ new city academy in Peterborough that, courtesy of Perkins Engines, will be offering education with a total ban on “unstructured play”. It’s the most expensive state school ever built at £46.4 million, but hey! Perkins put up all of £2 million out of that, always assuming…
Read More Libraries gave us powerOK, then, someone’s been complaining about this blog’s general appearance, specifically the javascript clock that Internet Explorer sufferers can see around their cursors. It’s Web 2.0. Honest. Fools. Just imagine if I had decided to ignore the user testing feedback and unleash this TYR Beta from December, 2004 on the world. I really can’t imagine…
Read More Somebody’s been criticising my web designYou can’t beat them, so why don’t you join in… OK, so every blogger and their cat knows about “Guido Fawkes”‘s personal history these days. Hull University in the mid-80s, Federation of Conservative Students, working for David Hart and friends – this is the bit he softpedals – and then the bit he turns up…
Read More 24 hour Tory party peopleIt’s come to my attention, again, that the fine Samuel Smith’s Brewery of Tadcaster, West Yorkshire produces beer that a nontrivial number of bloggers enjoy and recommend. Smiths is best-known outside Yorkshire and the real ale community for the clutch of pubs it owns in central London, much favoured for their low prices and scruffy…
Read More Beer for BloggersRemember this post? It looks to me like they cut back their activities over Christmas, whilst it was on the table. But now, with this explicitly rejected, and the talk of “the 80 per cent solution” and such..well, all that keeps it from being a betrayal is that there was no explicit offer, at least…
Read More Surging insurgentsWell, I haven’t read the IPCC report yet, but I can report that I got my hands on an advance copy of Tim Worstall’s reaction to it. Here goes: Those scientist chappies are awfully clever. But what about this tangential issue? Here’s what the MSM isn’t telling you: if you make entirely different assumptions that…
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