A few weeks ago, the political blogosphere united to condemn the actions of Alisher Usmanov and his lawyers for attempting to shut down Craig Murray’s blog. We were right to do so; what made Usmanov’s actions particularly reprehensible was the way he used the law to intimidate Murray’s hosting company while cowardly avoiding a fight… Continue reading Homeopaths resort to legal action to cure all headaches
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Joseph Goebbels: “honestly, it’s like living in a police state!”
Reading Sarah Helm‘s article in yesterday’s Observer severely pissed me off, on at least two levels. The complete lack of contrition from Blair’s inner-circle that they had done anything wrong. Lest we forget that if anyone tried raising funds via undeclared loans now, they would be committing a criminal offence. They might not have committed… Continue reading Joseph Goebbels: “honestly, it’s like living in a police state!”
Oliver Kamm: wrong then, wrong now
Oliver Kamm is predicting doom and gloom about political blogs again: The blogosphere, in short, is a reliable vehicle for the coagulation of opinion and the poisoning of debate. It is a fact of civic life that is changing how politics is conducted – overwhelmingly for the worse, and with no one accountable for the… Continue reading Oliver Kamm: wrong then, wrong now