A musical mood struck me on the way to the coffee shop this afternoon and upon my return I recorded this song for friends and any one who finds it interesting. I am more than a couple years away from gigging and touring and sitting about studios and given how busy I am with other things I decided to skip the guitar backup since it would take a day to get it up to performance...

In the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder's declaration of war speech against voter ID laws, a number of the usual suspects stepped in to try to backup his claim that voter fraud was negligible, including, of course, Pravda-on-the-Hudson. They even have a demonstrably cooked 'study' or two to cite. After my article yesterday on Eric Holder's racist and hypocritical rant, I de...

What I’d be interested to know is whether this is in fact true? Centrica and other energy companies last week told DECC that, if Britain is to spend £100 billion on building thousands of wind turbines, it will require the building of 17 new gas-fired power stations simply to provide back-up for all those times

When Redskins coach Mike Shanahan decided to pull six-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb for backup Rex Grossman during the Lions game because coach Shanahan was supposedly concerned about his star quarterback's ability to run the two minute offense - I wonder if Coach Shanahan would have had more success had he put Admiral Roughead in the game instead of Rex Grossman. Maybe he should h...

I'm told that a tragic accident has befallen the Tory general election campaign. The rumour is that their expensively-procurred national canvassing database has suffered a software crash and had to be taken offline. Meanwhile they can't enter canvassing data, print off canvass sheets or access any of their historic canvassing records. What a calamity. I do hope they kept a paper backup somewhere.

The EU has no backup plan if the Lisbon Treaty fails to be ratified, experts and sources from the European institutions told EurActiv. Next Friday's Irish referendum is seen as make-or-break time, but so is a key Czech Senate decision due on Tuesday (29 September).

President Barack Obama is drawing up a 'Plan B' to regulate greenhouse gases if the US Senate fails to pass legislation needed to mandate the new administration to negotiate an international climate treaty at crunch talks in December, a senior official said yesterday (24 September).

Labour MP Elliott Morley claimed £16,000 for a mortgage which didn't exist. At best this could be construed as negligent. At worst it is fraudulent. Let's for a moment give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the former. What I would like to know is why on earth the House of Commons Fees Office allowed £16,000 of our money to be used on a claim with no backup paperwork? T...

Yes, it's apparently true, and it was there for a long time before being removed — if indeed it has been removed (one commenter seems to think so). Even if it has, there will undoubtedly be plenty of backup copies on record, after all this time, including archives of old versions of the DNA database.The (four as I write this) comments to the linked Nanny Knows Best article are also worth reading...

Comrades, Last night Labourhome suffered a major server collapse and we were forced to revert to a week-old backup. As you can see, the site is still not back to normal but we are working on it. Please accept my apologies for the articles and comments lost since 8th March. If you registered a Labourhome account since that time, you may find you need to register again. Many apologies, Alex Hilton a...