I could, and probably will, write a lengthy and considered piece about the absurdity of Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin’s suggestion that blogs should be covered by a voluntary code of practice – not such a thing would apply to MoT as but for out own berserker libel laws, which are so shitty even Americans come to sue, and being ‘published’ on a US-based server, its already subject a code of practice I thoroughly approve of, the US First Amendment.

I could, or I could just suggest a voluntary code of practice of my own, and invite Mt Toulmin to kiss my arse in Harrod’s windows and fuck off.

The latter option is far less considered, but oh so very much more satisfying.

Feel free to file this under ‘overpaid bureaucratic twat with too much time on his hands’.

Before Adrian McMenamin gets too cocky about the official Downing Street website attracting more traffic than the unholy trinity of the right, Iain Dale, Guido & ConservativeHome, thanks almost entirely to the new petitions facility provided by MySociety, perhaps he should take a bit of closer look at the top petitions themselves:

1. repeal the Hunting Act 2004. – 11701

2. scrap the

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I thought I’d start this article with another ‘treasure’ from my storehouse of personal anecdotes dating back to my days as a youth worker.

One of the semi-regular chores during my time as a youth worker was the mandatory attendance at a bi-annual get-together of youth workers from the statutory sector, where I worked, and voluntary youth workers, mainly the kind of people who ran… - Continue Reading...

Salma Yaqoob, in yet another unimaginative reply to the launch of the New Generation Network, seems to be just a liitle confused:

The New Generation Network manifesto argues that, “We need to foster a climate in which people can have private differences which include religion, language and culture, but also have a public space where such differences are bridged. The right to freedom

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Advertising is not usually my forte but there are times that it is only right to make an exception…

…oh, bugger it. Let’s cut the bullshit and cut straight to the chase. This year’s anthology of the (subjective) best of British blogging, The Blog Digest 2007, goes on sale on December 1st.

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If ever the name of an organisation was a misnomer then its that of the latest peddlers of the unscientific snake oil of creationism, ‘Truth in Science‘, which, according to the Guardian, is currently claiming that its ‘resource materials’ are in use in 59 secondary schools in Britain despite the government having made it clear that:

“Neither intelligent design nor creationism

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