Category Archives: The Political Weblog Movement
20 years of Bloggerheads: SOON! But first, this…
On 14 December 2021 I will be celebrating 20 years of blogging at bloggerheads.com Today I wish to apologise for those times when publication slowed to a complete stop or focused entirely on a specific crisis in my life, but … Continue reading
RIP Tom Barry of @BorisWatch
I have just learned that Tom Barry of @BorisWatch/BorisWatch.co.uk has died suddenly at the all-too-young age of 41. I’ve no doubt that his immediate family are in shock and have some serious grieving ahead of them, but if they’re reading … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Grant Shapps claims he met the alleged ‘1234’ hacker
The recent controversy about a Guardian story apparently linking Grant Shapps to a series of Wikipedia edits led me to review my email correspondence with Mr Shapps back in 2012, when I was seeking a statement or denial over the … Continue reading
Tweet archive of @toryeducation, the abusive sock-puppet of Michael Gove and/or his SPADs
[TL:DR – Tories running the Department of Education sought to harangue and taunt their critics anonymously like playground bullies. Here is the evidence they tried to bury.] For over two years, an anonymous Twitter account endorsed by the Conservatives sought … Continue reading
New evidence: Dennis Rice the sole author of @tabloidtroll
——— IMPORTANT UPDATE: 2014 post detailing how Dennis Rice reacted to the evidence that he was the author of ‘@tabloidtroll’ ——— A few months ago, I asked Dennis Rice if he was the person behind @tabloidtroll, a twitter account used … Continue reading
Dennis Rice and the @TabloidTroll Twitter account
From the outset, I would like to make clear that I have both a legitimate personal and public interest argument for outing the author of the Twitter account @TabloidTroll (aka ‘tabloidman’) in that the account has been used (a) to … Continue reading
MessageSpace cannot be trusted with your personal data
I’ve recently had cause to submit a subject access request to the advertising network MessageSpace. After spending weeks dodging the issue, Jag Singh finally issued a cursory response, but ultimately refused to disclose the data he had earlier acknowledged I … Continue reading
News of the World: a wake-up call for certain Conservatives
Some people in politics can be really funny about evidence… Westminster/media groupies especially so. It is not unknown for some ‘commentators’ to be so far into the role of propagandist that they will accuse personal/political enemies of criminality on nothing … Continue reading
John Elmes and why you can’t trust Times Higher Education
Recently, staff at Times Higher Education surprised a lot of their readers and supporters by seeking to promote themselves in blogs with the name ‘bloggerheads’, and acting both arrogantly and dishonestly when it was pointed out to them that someone … Continue reading
THE tank on my lawn (and how/when it got there)
The following is a copy of a letter I have just sent to the lawyer that Times Higher Education referred me to earlier this afternoon. I did not hear from this gentleman before close of business today, so I did … Continue reading
