This may get a little weird as I’m just about to fisk someone else’s fisk, but bear with me – it’ll be worth it.
The fisk in question is Iain’s Dale’s rather piss-poor attempt at generating a bit synthetic outrage over an article by Dominic Ponsford in the Press Gazette defending Channel 4′s use of a undercover reporter in its recent Dispatches… - Continue Reading...
It’s time for a quick update on the ongoing SSG/SPCK saga and J Mark Brewer’s efforts to obtain a bankruptcy order in the US court on behalf of a UK charity and if you’ve been following any of this you should be delighted to know that Brewer’s bankruptcy application was heard yesterday and dismissed with prejudice.
‘Courtroom Minutes. Time Hearing Held: 11:00
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. Sam Norton while studiously avoiding any response… - Continue Reading...
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 an e-mail of my own, as there are… - Continue Reading...
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 here include the figures given for… - Continue Reading...
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 quality of the original scans is not good… - Continue Reading...
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, so Christian bookshops aren’t… - Continue Reading...
It’s conservatives who’re making all the running in Britain’s burgeoning online political culture and leaving the left trailing in there wake, right?
No, not really – it’s just not that straightforward.
It is true that four of five most ‘successful’ political blogs – measured in terms of readership – are right wing blogs; Guido, Iain Dale, Conservative Home… - Continue Reading...
Without wishing to spoil anyone’s anticipation of the upcoming publication of Iain Dale’s latest guide to political blogging, I’m one of forty bloggers who has a self-penned entry in the book’s ‘Who’s Who’ section, in which I make the point that one of things that motivates my writing is a deep-seated sense of irritation with people who routinely demonstrate their inability to back up… - Continue Reading...
To no one’s great surprise, the news that a survey commissioned by Julia Hobsbawn’s fledgling PR meets the professional commentarati project, Editorial Intelligence (oxymoron anyone?), has identified Polly Toynbee as the ‘columnist of choice for opinion leaders‘ (whatever the fuck one of those is when its at home) has foundered straight away on the blogosphere’s usual Scylla of derision and… - Continue Reading...
