Much as I like Stewart Lee, I think the Travel Lodge is alright, actually # Everything you need to know about Drapergate – http://bit.ly/12ylw # I wonder if the events around #Smeargate constitute breaches of the Labour Party rule book – cf 2A6A and 2A8 # Would anyone like to come to hear Eddie Izzard, [...]

When Derek Draper re-emerged onto the scene as a blogger with LabourList, there was a justified mixture of scepticism, given his claims to be writing for sixty million, and concern, given that he was retaining Schillings, of Alisher Usmanov infamy, as lawyers. I think, though, that people were willing to give him a relatively fair [...]

London Undeground travellers will be familiar with the mournful cry of the platform attendant Please stand back from the platform edge and allow passengers off the train before boarding It’s not hard to understand. Usually, we seem to be pretty good at it but, for some reason, rush hour activates the lemming instinct and the [...]

I would like you to go and read this very good post by John Band. That is all. xD.

Firstly, this isn’t murder. Battery, yes; manslaughter, perhaps; conduct unbecoming, definitely. We do not have enough evidence yet to say that the actions of the police lead to Ian Tomlinson’s death. The fact that A happened after B does not imply that B caused A. It may be that Mr Tomlinson’s sand had run out, [...]

I’m going to come back to this one, but in the meantime I notice that theredrag.co.uk was registered in November of last year by ‘Ollie Cromwell’. It does rather look as if this was going to be a real clone of Paul Staines’ alter ego. Redrag.net has felt the need to point out that the [...]

It’s a double bank holiday and it’s raining. Whoda thunk it, eh? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

A couple of people – one in real life and one here – have said that they find the regular Twitter updates annoying. Initially, I’m going to set it to post a Twitter update once a week and, if people still don’t like it, I’ll remove it and have it as an RSS. How does [...]

Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Under Louis XIV of France, handing down a wrongful death sentence received capital punishment. How very enlightened. # Powered by Twitter Tools.