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Hogan home
Well done to everyone invovled in getting him out, seems Nick hogan got released today
Excellent Stuff, special kudos to Anna Raccoon and Old Holborn for all their work.
Blogging by edict
I’m up way too late, but it’s the weekend, so here’s a wonderful bit of amusement, courtesy of
Anna Raccoon – a dissection of why the left aren’t generally terribly good at blogging. Though I do find it odd that they can’t get their heads round all the free blog providers as they’re normally quite good at taking handouts.
Letter to Baroness Buscombe
you may or may not have heard by Baroness Buscombe the new chair of the Press Complaints Commission is pondering if it might not be a frightfully jolly idea for the PCC to also regulate blogs. Regulating blogs seeming to be an idea that governments just can’t let go of, despite the vast numbers of technical difficulties that would prevent it working for anyone with even half a technical clue. So despite this being an even sillier idea than holding ISPs liable for usenet posts made by people that aren’t their customers, it’s probably best to try and kill it as soon as possible. After all they did end up making ISPs liable for usenet posts, and the evidence is they’ve only got dafter since then.
So go and sign this rather well written letter over at Liberal Conspiracy explaining to the powers that be, that it’s a very silly idea and that we’re doing quite well on our own thanks very much and that maybe the PCC should get the hang of effectively regulating the press first before they start worrying about anything else.
Well worth reading
I’m quite behind all the cool kids with this one but it’s worth linking to anyway.
If you’ve got a few minutes go and read The Conservative Challenge by Sean Gabb. There’s a lot in it to think about, and articulates many of the reasons why I’m joining Old Holborn for his little walk, yes it’s only symbolic, yes it won’t achieve much – but symbols are important and exercising our legal rights to look silly in a quiet and peaceful fashion is important. It may make people think, or at least wonder what we’re up to, it may give us a chance to explain some of the stuff we’re worried about to other people, and it will give us the chance to remind a few PCSO’s and real police that people do have rights and that some of us will exercise them.
Another post elsewhere to read
I do hope this doesn’t become too much of a habit, but another post elsewhere that really is worth going to read (via Long Rider):
That’s right whip the Libertarian* by Bella Gerens
A nice neat simple summation of libertarianism.
* Please assume I made the obvious “They’ll enjoy it” joke. Thanks.
Post of the day
I know another post of the day and little more than a week since the last one. However I don’t intend to make a habit of it, and this post by the ever excellent Charlotte Gore is well worth the read:
“They’ve created a hostile, malicious, suspicious country full of jealousy, envy, anger and hatred, winners and losers at each other’s throats because they know the only difference is that one’s got the Government on their side and the other’s got the Government actively working against them.“
Naming the seasons
So the Summer of rage[tm] is drawing to a close without all that much rage being in evidence. Anger, disgust and even outrage but none of the rage we were promised. so I’d just like to get in before the usual suspects do and suggest that we are about to move into:
The Autumn of anarchy
This may or may not be followed by a re-run of a winter of discontent, which I hope will be followed by the
The Spring of sedition
Remember you heard it here first.
Plugging friends again
so someone else I know has dipped their toes into the cold and murky waters of blogging, and are far more likely to do a better job of it than I have. An ex-journalist (though as he’s started blogging so soon I wonder how big an ex that is) and all round good chap, I commend A Compendium of Mallin Miscellany for your delectation.
Not much there yet but I suspect this is one to watch for a feet firmly on ground no tin foil in sight perspective.
Post of the day
Been a while since I posted one of these but Pavlov’s cat has a rather excellent article about the newest anti-smoking adverts and our fear of death.
(Stumbled upon via an excellent article from Leg Iron)
The Times and NightJack again
Off to a folk festival tomorrow and with luck I’ll not get stabbed again, though if I do the police in Leicester are wonderful as is the hospital ( Which should be more than enough for the voyeur and hacker Parick Foster to fearlessly expose another unimportant blogger). When I return I’ll update all of the Times links to use a URL shortener to break google linking. In the meantime a few things relating to the whole sorry NightJack affair that I’d hate to go unnoticed. In shock news Tom HarrisMP agrees with Guido that as the Times dislikes anonymous articles so they should cease thier anonymous leader columns, I’m not sure I’m entirely convinced and mr Finkelstein certianly isn’t utterly different a group effort he says. Which I think is possibly a point though I hope that means that the Times will cease to quote all anonymous “sources close to…”, and it’s also worth noting in case of any future legal need that he’d not object to everyone involved in any times leader being exposed.
“Should someone decide that there was a public interest in knowing the precise details of how an individual leader was drafted (similar to the very obvious public interest in knowing the identity of a police officer publishing case details on the web), then they might wish to launch a journalistic investigation into that leader
And should they then print what they found, I wouldn’t object at all.”
Presumably with photograph and all, and I do hope all those involved with such leaders are equally agreeable to such a deal.
Finally via Old Holborn it would seem that Inspector Leviathan Hobbes would quite like to meet those responsible for NightJacks exposure.
For the record if by any strange chance I ever happen to be in the same hostelry as NightJack Inspector Hobbes, Inspector Gadget, PC Bloggs, < ahref="http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/">PC Copperfield or any of our anonymous public service bloggers who let us glimpse inside the establishment, then I owe you a pint.
UK terror threat status
- Severe 2010/01/25