There’s an amusing fellow on YouTube called Lee Doren. He’s of the flavour of politics that sees Barack Obama as a socialist and/or fascist. His channel on YouTube is called ‘How the World Works’ – a singularly inappropriate title. I have a webcam for Skype calls, so I thought I’d use it to make a [...]

Political wonks will be familiar, at the bottom of every piece of election literature (including stickers and t-shirts), with an imprint along the lines of Printed and promoted by Anne Agent on behalf of Can D’Date, both of 29 Acacia Avenue, Dandytown. I believe that’s a requirement under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendum Act [...]

Paul ‘Guido Fawkes’ Staines says that Gordon Brown may be taking an anti-depressant of the MAOI class; apparently the story is doing the rounds of the Westminster village. The article goes to show what a little shit Paul Staines is. Begin brief rant Mental illness is not a lot of fun. It’s also poorly understood [...]

I’ve spent a very pleasant evening in the company of the Sceptics in the Pub London, where the speaker was Dr. Aubrey de Gray, Chief Scientific Officer with the SENS Foundation. In brief, de Gray (Wikipedia article) set out the work of the SENS foundation which, as I understand it, looks at ageing as a [...]

Neil Williams (blog, Twitter) has drafted a template strategy for Government departments wanting to use Twitter; find it on the Cabinet Office’s Digital Engagement Blog or on Neil’s website as a PDF. It’s a good document – you have to bear in mind that this is for civil servants – and could be a good [...]

Jack of Kent has rapidly become one of my favourite blogs; it is in the ‘must read’ section of my RSS. Firstly, he has a rare ability amongst lawyers: that of making complex legal principles and processes understandable to the layperson. Secondly, he campaigns tirelessly for one of the great rights: freedom of speech. Thirdly, [...]

I have a post up over at the Liberal Conspiracy by way of a note to the Parliamentary Labour Party. xD.

Find out why I think PMQs is a stain on our democracy and should be abolished over at Common Endeavour’s apostasy slot. xD.

Further to my post on the Government on Twitter, here are some other directories of UK political twitterers. The UKGovWeb Twitterverse from DavePress TweetyHall – local politicians Local councils on Twitter from Dorset for You Tweetminster Journalists from PR Blogger The UK Government on Twitter from Neil Williams xD.

The Central Office of Information run a rather good website called the News Distribution Service, formerly the Government News Network. Below the fold are the RSS and Twitter feeds in three groups – aggregate, departmental and regional. Unfortunately, no-one knows about it as the COI doesn’t do much to promote it despite being “the Government’s [...]