Five blogs have recently joined Ryan’s Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator: Aberystwyth University Liberal Democrats -  – old logo, new site Harry Armistead -  – nicely integrated with various social networks, including ACT Ian Lindley -  – interesting use of Tumblr, and comes with a campaign song Lee Chalmers -  – though there seems to be a site mis...

Whose sticky little fingers are all over mis-accounting in Greece? All the usual suspects, bar, it seems Barclays (what did they do to miss out?): Wall Street’s role in the unfolding Greek debt crisis will be probed by  Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, which has requested information from Athens about currency swaps. The transactions, undertaken from 2001

contribution by Climate Sock Another week, another shonky poll? On Friday the BBC reported their new survey, which they claimed showed a clear drop in the number of people who believe in climate change or that it’s man-made. After the BBC’s inaccurate coverage of a climate poll last year, I was ready for this to be another bit of mis-reporting ripe for a take-down.

Two weeks ago, the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) became the symbol of American power and compassion as the ship sailed offshore Port-au-Prince and began helicopter operations following Haiti's devastating earthquake. Two weeks later the situation in Haiti has improved considerably, although problems and challenges still exist. I am not usually a big fan of Thomas Donnelly, he is kind of hit or mis...

Political coverage and blogging in the UK has a rather odd love-hate relationship with electoral numbers. On the one hand, the latest opinion poll figures get reported, re-reported and mis-reported at length, with the mere fact that a change in ratings is well within the margin of error not being reason enough to stop a

Richard North has written on the Daily Mail piece I referred to in the previous post. Tie it in with the way we are mis-managing our energy supplies, he writes, and we are looking at a slow-motion economic catastrophe far greater than the economic crisis we are weathering, the overall costs of which are set to exceed the entire tax bill for the average household. This puzzles him. The political cl...

A number of pundits on the Left tried to shift the fallout over the Obama Administration's failure over the Christmas bombing by blaming GOP senator Jim DeMint for putting a hold on the nomination of Erroll Southers, Obama's choice to head the TSA. Turns out DeMint knew exactly what he was doing: The White House nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration gave Congress mis...

The Tories accuse the government of "mis-selling" ID cards after Alistair Darling appeared to suggest they would be scrapped.

Officials said the government was looking for 'significant savings' in the £12.7bn IT programme, and that Alistair Darling had 'mis-spoken' in a TV interview when he implied the project was going to be scrapped

Public shows sympathy after British prime minister – whose approval ratings have hit historic lows – is accused of mis-spelling the name of a dead soldier in a hand­written letter to grieving mother