Please accept my apologies if the blog has not worked properly today. Without any warning from my internet service supplier (1&1) I filled the database for this blog at about 7.30 this morning, after which neither I or anyone else could post to it. My great WordPress support man – Andy Moyle – got to work and by tonight the blog has been shifted to
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One of the tedious, and recurring themes, of those who come to this blog to object to what I say is that I sometimes choose not to engage with them, I delete them when I think their comments fall outside my comments policy, or that I am short in response to their comments. I, unsurprisingly, do not agree with any
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I had a long conversation with Neal Lawson from Compass this morning following on from this blog yesterday. Neal assures me Compass remains committed to fighting cuts. And Compass is fighting those in Labour (and they exist) who say Labour must stick to Tory spending plans if it wins the next election. What he did confirm
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This came up on my mail alerts this morning: And that’s it. No article. Nothing else I can see. So go on guys – tell me what I am manufacturing (and let’s keep it polite, please).

Sometimes I blog something with real hope it will be read. And usually it isn’t. Other times I dash a blog off and discover it’s a hit. This one, last week, was in the later category. Look at those link numbers at the bottom: Thanks!  

From the Guardian: Laws that led to London being dubbed “the libel capital of the world” will be reformed after peers in the Lords voted to pass the defamation bill, ending a three-year campaign led by Liberal Democrat peers Lord McNally and Lord Lester. Libel reform campaigners said they were “delighted” overall that defamation reform was
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Despite what many like to claim this blog is pretty much written in my spare time: it’s why I work rather too many hours a day. I write it to develop ideas, see them change and progress, and to encourage (I hope) others to do the same. I am interested in comments. I have always been candid: I’ve
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I am the ‘Extra Guest’ on BBC’s Question Time tonight. That does not mean you will see me on the panel on televsion – it means I am given the BBC’s twitter account for an hour. If you want to see what I have to say you have to follow @BBCExtraGuest  on twitter. The question I have
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The BBC announced this at lunchtime today:   But please note that this does not mean I will be on the programme. It means I will be commenting on the programme on Twitter for the BBC on the @bbcextraguest account – so you need to follow that if you want to see what I’m saying.
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