Category Archives: The Political Weblog Movement
The Times Higher Education correspondence
(Psst! If you are new to this issue, please read this first.) The following is the guts of my correspondence with staff from Times Higher Education after they tried to claim ownership of the name ‘bloggerheads’, the name I created … Continue reading
Ann Mroz: patronising, unpleasant and dishonest
[MINI-UPDATE (03 Jun) – THE object to my use of the word ‘dishonest’ in this headline. I stand by my use of the word, but as a courtesy, I have placed this prominent and immediate link to the relevant correspondence … Continue reading
OpenTech talk (extract): #Outpost
The following is an extract from a talk I have just given at OpenTech. I’ll put some audio and vision of the complete talk together shortly. The tag for discussion on twitter is #outpost. … Some MPs get up to … Continue reading
Jeremy Hunt approves of all sorts of odd things
CCC11-02 – Jeremy Hunt rhymes with something The latest edition of Conservative Change Channel is (finally) out and it includes two special moments from Jeremy Hunt (recorded just prior to the 2010 General Election): 1. The first is classic Hunt. … Continue reading
Iain Dale tells lies shock
I’m too time-pressed to write a proper farewell to Iain Dale and his particular ‘style’ of blogging (allowing your site to be used as a platform for anonymous attacks on your critics and rivals then screaming ‘personal attack’ when confronted … Continue reading
Iain Dale, his pride, and others things that are hard to swallow
One of the main issues I have always had with Iain Dale is his ‘style’ of comment moderation. In his post on ‘rules’, he says that he will not allow comments that could be “construed as libellous” and reserves the … Continue reading
Clubhouse rules
Greetings! The post you are reading at this moment is appearing simultaneously on four websites: Bloggerheads (post permalink) – my personal site The Sun: Tabloid Lies (post permalink) – a media watch site targeting The Sun Daily Mail Watch (post … Continue reading
Iain Dale: the hack
OK, so Iain Dale, the publisher of the ‘unbiased’ junk-mail magazine Total Politics is busy assuring us that what Andy Coulson certainly didn’t do (summary) isn’t quite so bad, because guessing someone’s password isn’t really hacking, according to his close … Continue reading
Iain Dale: crocodile tears for a fellow Tory
Iain Dale is currently very busy putting himself about in the mainstream media taking a ‘principled’ stand against the way Paul Staines (‘Guido Fawkes’) has been running his site like an open sewer. To cover his arse, on TV/radio he … Continue reading
Top 10 Biggest Liars in British Blogging Poll – 2010
In honour of Iain Dale’s repeated attempts to have his slightly-less-rigged blog-poll taken seriously (see also: Top 100 Worst Blogs Poll) I’ve decided to conduct a poll of my own based on my own interests… i.e. exposing liars and watching … Continue reading
