Right, some links from today to amuse/enlighten/annoy/entertain.

First up, Lisa from up the road's been doing some digging on some extremist Christian lobbying groups, How to spot a fundamentalist Christian Lobby Group in your news. A guide. As a general rule, if there's a story in the press about oppressed Christians, these guys are likely to a) ( Read more... )

Charlotte Gore is worried that the switch to the Lib Dems in the polls is a style over substance presentation only shift. In the comments, Jennie and Steph both disagree, for different reasons. Her server won't let me comment currently, so you lucky lucky people get the text as a post.

I think Jennie, Steph and Charlotte are all correct ( Read more... )

OK, when I talked about Labour getting wiped out in 2010 a couple years back, I was semi-joking and being deliberately provocative. Or maybe I was just being prescient. Email from YouGov: Our latest daily polling figures for The Sun (fieldwork 15th-16th April) are ( Read more... )

Spent the last weekend at the spring Liberal Democrat conference just up the road in Harrogate. It's one of those events that holds a soft spot for me-my first one was 2 years ago, just 2 weeks after I'd met theyorkshergob, so I spent both evenings with her in Leeds-we both think we'd have ended up together regardless, but the ability to meet up in Yorkshire ( Read more... )

So, most of you will have noticed that since moving in with Miss Spammy Pants I'm posting a lot less, but she's still posting lots. Now, of course, any good blogger gives away a fair bit of themselves in the persona that they blog with, but it's not the whole picture. So I thought some of you might like to know other aspects of what she's like ( Read more... )

Really pleased that the radical shift to the left in taxation policy was passed at today's Lib Dem conference--couldn't make it into the hall to hear the debate unfortunately, but a genuinely redistributive policy that will genuinely help those earning the least in society has to be a bloody good thing.

Shift to the right?
For some reason there are ( Read more... )

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  Sky One to resurrect Blake's 7? | The Register
  It'll either be great or awful. But I do want to know who'll play Servalan.
  (tags: TV Blake's+7)
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  Masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - Yahoo! News
  See, it is good for you: Studies on animals have shown that carcinogens like 3-methylchloranthrene can be harbored in the prostate. Frequent ( Read more... )

Oh look, soft southerner complaining about the weather again. At Lib Dem conference, working just next to the main doorway in. Not really practical to wear gloves while using a computer. Ah well.

Am working, have very busy patches then very quiet bits, may or may not have time to read, update or do other things. Will likely update Twitter ( Read more... )

Right then, last year, you lot voted that Best Xmas song lyric ever is: You scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy faggot
Well, this morning, BBC Radio 1 decided this was offensive to some listeners but then later on in the day saw sense and backed down. I agree with pickwick, it's a damn shame that the BBC manages to tie itself into hoops as often as it does ( Read more... )

• 19:10 sat waiting for the Chris and Nick live tour to start. #
• 19:15 Listening to Chris Huhne suggest we draft Vince Cable. Can't say he's wrong there... #
• 19:40 Wishing Clegg would stop fluffing his lines, and wishing he'd stop making all those intentional pauses #
• 23:10 sat in the pub putting the world to rights, and wondering how we got back to ( Read more... )