I’ve left this alone for a couple of days but to bring everyone up to speed the ongoing saga of J Mark Brewer, the St Stephen the Great charity/charitable trust and SPCK’s former bookshops continues to rumble on unabated, with Brewer continuing to fire off his rather sanctimonious legal threats in the direction of Rev. [...]

When New Labour is finally laid to rest – as it must be one day, because all things come to end – what, I wonder, will be its epitaph? What will… what should it say on the headstone?
Speaking for myself, I think that can be no more apt reflection on the last eleven years of [...]

I’ve noticed that a few bloggers have taken to sending ‘I am Dave Walker’ e-mails to J Mark Brewer at his office e-mail address. I’m not sure quite how wise a move that is on its own, although his rather santimonius comments in reply are quite amusing.
That said, I’ve taken the liberty of send Brewer [...]

I’ve got a treat for anyone following the SSG/SPCK saga today – the fill set of legal papers filed in relation to J Mark Brewer’s attempt to take a UK registered charity into bankruptcy in a Texas court.
To begin at the beginning, we’ll start with the Statement of Financial Affairs:
Statement of Financial Affairs
Points of interest [...]

As promised, I can now provide a full copy of the motion to dismiss the application for Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed by Mark Brewer in respect of the seemingly non-existent SSG LLC.
Ordinarily I’d run this though an OCR package to generate text that can easily be copied and pasted but, unfortunately, on this occasion the [...]

Over at the Wardman Wire, Matt is currently presiding over yet another ‘Spartacus Action’, this time relating to a ‘cease and desist’ letter issued by the Texas-based owner of what used to be a chain of Anglican bookshops to a British blogger/cartoonist, Dave Walker, which led to the removal of 75 posts from Dave’s blog.
Okay, [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, we’re at the start of the silly season and that, due entirely to publication schedules, I’m sure, means its also that time of the year when Iain Dale starts soliciting votes for his annual guide to political blogging:
In early September TOTAL POLITICS, in association with APCO WORLDWIDE will [...]

From the file marked ‘Please can I have a job at the Daily Mash… please… pretty please…’ we find a ‘Staff Reporter’ at the Sun getting the annual silly season off to a flying start:
Anti Alien’ hats for Wales
A US boffin has pledged ‘anti-alien’ hats to Welsh UFO-spotters after The Sun revealed how stunned police [...]

Follow-up research in the so-called ‘Centre for Open Politics’ has revealed that one of its founder members, Harry Cole, a Vice President of Conservative Future Scotland, was found to have operated an anonymous attack blog during his campaign for President of Edinburgh University Students Association, earlier this year.
In February, EUSA’s official newspaper, The Journal, reported [...]

Having busted the so-called ‘Centre for Open Politics’ as a front for Conservative Future in my last post, I did a little more digging and turned up this information from the site’s domain registration information…
Domain name: sunlight-cops.org.uk
Registrant: Centre for Open Politics Limited
Registrant type: UK Limited Company, (Company number: 1234567)
Registrant’s address: Albion Buildings, 1 Back Hill, [...]