Well, well, well. The Conservative chairman, Eric Pickles, last night appeared to disown the leadership of the Young Britons’ Foundation, a rightwing training organisation for young Conservatives whose officials have described the NHS as “the biggest waste of money in the UK” and suggested the waterboarding of prisoners can be justified. Pickles spoke last week…
Read More tha mun laike wi’t gangling-iron, Councillor DuxburyBefore moving on to more serious issues, does anyone know what, exactly, the Young Britons’ Foundation is? I mean, if you were to sign a cheque to it, what kind of a legal entity is it that cashes it? (I’m tempted to cut them a £10 cheque, just to see what comes up on my…
Read More a donation of minus £25It may be of interest that Donal Blaney is the only blogger I’ve ever heard of whose blog set a robots.txt file to stop the Internet Archive Foundation from indexing it. Google’s Web-in-RAM systems are rather less fastidious than Brewster Kahle’s outfit (which invented quite a bit of the technology behind Google and other big…
Read More blogging ethics panel around me, please!“We can’t go on like this” was all about style and look-and-feel; the tombstone seems to be a reaction against it and a reversion to a fairly crude, tabloid approach. Perhaps it reflects discord among the people who commissioned it? It would be easy to identify the first with Steve Hilton and the second with…
Read More Camera On. Camera Off. We’re still on CCTV(Canonical link.) (Canonical link.) (Canonical link.) (Canonical link.) You know the rules.
Read More I think he is frit!There is something pleasantly surreal about this story. London Reconnections reports on the appearance of the heads of Tube Lines, the Underground, and Mr. Chris Bolt before the London Assembly’s transport committee. It doesn’t sound obviously hilarious, but then, who is Chris Bolt? You may vaguely remember him as the Rail Regulator, the chap who…
Read More Magic and the decline of railway privatisationThis feels wrong – but it looks like Prinny did the right thing. I wonder what Nigel Lawson or Monckton will say the next time they meet the heir to the throne?
Read More support from an unexpected quarterPerhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on the British wanktank movement. Here’s an example of the US version. It turns out that the people responsible for a break-in at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s office, who apparently posed as telecoms company technicians in an attempt to “tamper” with the phones, were led by a character who…
Read More now that’s what I call wanktankeryHow did anyone miss this one?
Read More Pretty vacantMetafilter! I love you all. I needed a crowd, and you brought me a mob. It’s been a four-figure day for the blog by 10 a.m., and more importantly created a truly superb boom in Dave from PR remixes. Looking at the detailed server log from TYR Classic, loads of people are googling for things…
Read More blogging will protect you from the terrible secret of David Cameron