Author Archives: Tim Ireland

About Tim Ireland

Tim is the sole author of Bloggerheads.

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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The Iain Dale Fan Club

The Iain Dale Fan Club started at midday on April 16, 2009, after Iain Dale stood by and allowed me to be smeared as a paedophile*, refused to discuss that, banned me from the comments on his website for daring … Continue reading

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Iain Dale plays the victim, yadda yadda yadda

“So he’s now going to launch a spamming initiative against me or try to instigate a DNS attack.” – Iain Dale This is an incorrect assumption at best. Given Iain Dale’s past history, it is more likely to be a … Continue reading

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The Downing Street conspiracy to ‘get Dale’

Take a look at what Paul promises to publish here, on live television on 27 March. It’s quite specific: Paul Staines: I’ve seen the briefing paper done by Downing Street; “How to get Dale” Derek Draper: Well, publish it. Paul … Continue reading

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Paul Staines the smear-merchant and why I urge you to boycott MessageSpace

UPDATE (16 Apr) – Paul Staines has now removed these false claims from his website and has agreed not to publish any more like it. After several fruitless attempts to confront Paul Staines about false claims made about me on … Continue reading

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I’m not standing for this

Go look for yourself… it starts at 3:47 and actually gets worse: YouTube – G20 Protest April 2nd 09 I’ll be back shortly to comment. – UPDATE – Still absorbing the video. Waiting to calm down. Have some pertinent information: … Continue reading

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Ian Tomlinson assault – IPCC ‘wrong’ about no CCTV claim

Guardian – Police watchdog chief wrong to say no CCTV in area of Ian Tomlinson assault: This morning the IPCC initially stood by Hardwick’s claims. “Mr Hardwick said there was no available CCTV footage of the incident and we stand … Continue reading

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