Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
BBC
Iâve been watching the blame-storming with increasing interest over the last few days. However, one comment in an Evening Standard roundup of the controversy [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/5859398?source=Evening%20Standard] caught my eye, mainly for this paragraph: > There are also rumours in the
animals
News about PETAâs latest campaign to get kids to cut up their parentâs credit cards, posted mainly for my wifeâs interest. [via Dodgeblogium [http://www.andrewiandodge.com/archives/000080.html]] A Small Victory: from the peta-files [http://asmallvictory.net/archives/003949.html#003949]
Journalism
Roy Greenslade has written a surprisingly measured response to the blame-storming going on at the moment. Itâs worth reading for the historical context as much as anything. Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Another casualty of the fourth estate [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/kelly/comment/0,13747,1002747,00.
crime
Samizdata has published an insanely good post in the Tony Martin situation entitled, appropriately enough, Samizdata.net â Tony Martin: Political Prisoner [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/004017.html#004017]. Read it.
BBC
The establishmentâs favourite game of blame-storming is in full swing. The weekendâs âblame Blairâ mood seems to be shifting round to a âblame the Beebâ attitude, lead by attacks from Peter Mandleson and other Blair loyalists. Thereâs a nice âpoint, counter-pointâ here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Blogging
The crowd gathered at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the Great Committee Room were exactly as one would expect: a smattering of suits, a good measure of geeky types, a fair few trendy new media types and a few journalists staring intently at the crowd and
Blogging
Well, the seminar last night was excellent, even if it was preaching to the converted. Iâll write up my thoughts later on, but you might like to look at the meeting notes [http://www.plasticbag.org/files/misc/VoxPolitics.txt], the manifesto [http://www.voxpolitics.com/weblog/archives/000310.
animals
Whatever you think of the issue of fox hunting, it still seems bizarre to me that weâre spending so much parliamentary time on it when the countryâs social services and transport infrastructure are collapsing. If itâs really about animal cruelty, why arenât we banning battery hens?
iraq
In this day and age of political apathy, thereâs at least one group I respect. Every week, the Women in Black make their silent protest on an issue that concerns them, under the statue of Edith Cavell on St Martinâs Lane. The stand questly, wearing or holding banners
iraq
I was at a seminar at the RICS [http://www.rics.org.uk/] in Westminster this morning. A comment from the organiser about the increased security (the building is opposite the Houses of Parliament) prompted me to wander down to the on-going protests to see how they were going, a
immigration
I find it faintly depressing that a committee of MPs can state the obvious and have it reported as news. The latest example of this is the new report into the asylum seekers problem. The report comes to the conclusion that peopleâs trust in the system has failed and
crime
Americans reading this story [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3010949.stm] will probably be struck with disbelief. I know I am.