Monthly Archives: April 2009

Andrew Gilligan in OCTOPUPPET: a short film about sock-puppets

I am hoping that you will like my new video very much. It’s all about a little incident involving Andrew Gilligan and sock-puppets, and I was right in the middle of the spectacular James Bond fantasy finale when I tripped … Continue reading

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G20: Callum Winton may wish to revise his eyewitness statement(s)

Callum Winton is a professional photographer who has recently started blogging, and was present at the G20 event where Ian Tomlinson was assaulted by a disguised police officer and later died. I need to note from the outset that Winton … Continue reading

Posted in The War on Stupid | 7 Comments

Here are the main points that Iain Dale refuses to discuss

[Psst! See also: what Iain still describes as a spam/DOS attack] Yes, I called and emailed Iain. A lot. And I regard that to be entirely fair, because he had a lot of explaining to do. He still does: 1. … Continue reading

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Police badge numbers: accountable parties call for context

Channel 4 – Police badge-covering condemned The chief inspector of police describes some of the behaviour of police officers at the G20 protests as “unacceptable”. Taking questions from MPs on the home affairs select committee, Mr O’Connor also said it … Continue reading

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Bishopsgate Police Station

Bishopsgate Police Station (via) Bishopsgate Police Station. Bishopsgate Police Station. Bishopsgate Police Station.

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Paul Staines (aka ‘Guido Fawkes’) is clearly faking it for ‘smeargate’

YouTube – Paul Staines, smears and ‘smeargate’ Days after the 2006 podcast featured in this clip, it was revealed that the target of these smears had sex with men, and Paul Staines fronted up to the world (behind his mask, … Continue reading

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Ian Tomlinson died of abdominal haemorrhage

BBC – G20 death was not heart attack: A police officer has been interviewed under caution for manslaughter after a new post-mortem overturned the cause of Ian Tomlinson’s death… Now a fresh examination has found he died of abdominal haemorrhage, … Continue reading

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Iain Dale: the return of the naked vicar

Iain has made good on his subtle threat to go back to unregistered comments (see comments here, and do note the timing). I once made the mistake of telling Iain how much it meant to me personally that he had … Continue reading

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Mail server down

All email to bloggerheads.com has been temporarily suspended in order to keep the site stable during the clean up after an exceptional spam attack today (a coincidence that I can assure you has little to nothing* to do with Iain … Continue reading

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Paul Staines withdraws false claims… will Iain Dale do the same?

Last night I ran out of patience with both Paul Staines and Iain Dale and their repeatedly publishing/allowing false claims about me on their respective websites. Typically, these are often confused with banter or abuse (or deliberately presented as banter … Continue reading

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