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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 →

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 →

Conspiracies and incompetance

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Coincidences are wonderful things and I regularly give thanks to the fickle whims of serendipity . So this morning as work required me to be awake at a time I consider far too early for an Easter Saturday, I was presented with three unconnected articles which wonderfully answered a question I’ve often asked myself. “Why aren’t deniable/false flag activities more common?” After all for tarnishing reputations or spreading a bit of dirt they should be the easiest things in the world to carry out, a few trouble makers at a demo and the media can dismiss the entire thing. Free … Continue reading →