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Somewhat puzzled

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Hopefully this is my last post on the McBride/Guido business, as the world and their dog have by now analysed and commented on every aspect of it and then some. Derek Draper has now “apologised” and asked that the “whole blogosphere, right and left” start being nicer, a sentiment echoed by Liberal Conspiracy. Which quite frankly is where I start to get puzzled, I mean I didn’t realise that I had to be either right of left wing to be part of the “blogosphere” (I hate that “word“), but from reading many of the responses from writers seemingly sympathetic to … Continue reading →

As an aside…

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Is it just me or does the proposed Labour smear web site The Red Rag seem a name more appropriate for a site talking about menstruation or possibly even menstruation porn rather than politics? Update Mope seems it’s not just me. +10

Events elsewhere

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Today Guido Fawkes claimed another scalp assisted by the mainstream media, even if Mr McBride did reign in advance last night to try to limit the damage. I’ve not really got anything much to add to the excellent commentary that can be found elsewhere. Being horribly meta and doing the whole blogger talking about blogger thing which is terribly dull here’s a bit of a round up. It’s great to see Tom Harris talking a lot of sense: “We screwed up, big time. We have no-one — absolutely no-one at all — to blame for this but ourselves.” Sadly he … Continue reading →