Meanwhile, over at Liberal Conspiracy, Dave, on the back of the Stewart v Cramer showdown, asks if American journalism is failing. xD.

A happy St David’s Day to one and all, and particularly those who hail from Wales. I would say ‘land of my fathers’, but for me it’d only be accurate to say ‘land of my mother’. xD.

In an open letter in yesterday’s Guardian, George Monbiot attacks Hazel Blears for being, well, Hazel Blears. I have no objection to whinging lefties. Indeed, I often whinge and (definitional objections notwithstanding) have been called a leftie. Monbiot gives us a bad name. Not only that, he makes what he wants to achieve and what [...]

Teddy Roosevelt referred to the Presidency of the USA as a ‘bully pulpit‘. He used the former word in the (Famous Five) sense of ‘bully for you’. In other words, it’s a great platform from which to promote an idea or ideology. Any elected representative can, eventually, be removed from office in a reasonably-functioning democracy. [...]

London needs greater media diversity. I’m going to explain the situation, why it’s bad and then propose a solution. The Evening Standard has something close to a monopolistic position on London news. It is, as we know, the only paid-for London newspaper. Metro, London Lite and thelondonpaper are meant to be read on the way [...]

The Sun opens its story “Nazi terrorist is caged for 16 years” on the conviction and sentencing of Martyn Gilleard, would-be promoter of a race war, with the line: A CROSS-dressing Nazi racist was jailed for 16 years yesterday on child porn and terrorism charges. Let me begin by saying that I am delighted that [...]

Last night’s Blog Nation gathering at the Guardian’s offices was interesting. Two main things came out of it for me. 1. There’s no such thing as blogging Or rather, there’s no one thing called blogging. It’s a clever piece of software, coupled with the internet, that allows people to do different things. Just ‘political blogs’ [...]

Professor Erik Ringmar will be on iPM on BBC Radio Four talking about liberating old papers. Do listen as it’s an important one. Partly, it’s about free information being freely available, but some of the things that should be freely available already aren’t. The case in point (as Erik writes in the Times Higher) is [...]

There has been some discussion of late about who has the most visitors to their blog. I’m sure that I don’t compare to some of the participants in the discussion who, Priapus-like, wave their impressive statistics for all to see. Google Analytics, Statcounter and the like are, ultimately, hobbyist tools. A website seeking to make [...]

Prince Harry (or Cornet-2/Lt Wales or possibly Widow-Six-Seven, depending on who you ask) has fulfilled his wish to fight for his grandmother and country. It would seem that this was a sop to him for not resign his commission because he hadn’t been allowed to fight in the manner he had been trained – commander [...]