OK, so I’m experimenting on a new site. I need to see where my traffic is coming from, so obviously I need a stats package. The one on the site is pretty pants and will be for the next few months. I cannot add Sitemeter or the like to the site as a whole (and the free

Welsh Labour's 'Aneurin Glyndwr' site is the gift that just keeps on giving. Apart from the obvious hilarity of the site, the equivalent of Labour shouting 'Tory, Tory, Tory' at the same time as fiddling whist Rome burns, they seem to be a tad gaffe prone. According to Paul Flynn MP the site amassed 9,000 hits in it's first day. Almost a fortnight on and the dipshits ...

As from today this site becomes not just www.johnredwood.com but also the regulated site of John Redwood, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Wokingham. The main site will continue unchanged, whilst the materials for the Wokingham election will normally appear on the local issues pages. The whole site is being treated as an election expense and will

There is little doubt that the site supposedly registered at Ieuan Wyn Jones' office address is a Labour attack site, a site designed specifically in order to enable Chris Bryant to repeat, under Parliamentary privilege, the slur that Plaid is a Tory stooge, which seems to be the Westminster Labour Party's main attack weapon against Plaid in the forthcoming Assembly Election. Look at the

As of the Glasgow East by-election starting my site traffic has reached levels it only touched before when I posted the map of the boundary changes (- an updated version of which will be on the way soon, by the way).I suspect a fair portion may be SNP press officers glancing by looking to see what I've said. I try to keep this site as independent of the party apparatus as possible, although obviou...

An online dossier about Tory Worries As many of you will not know I am a Liberal Democrats blogger who has recently started a site called Tory Worries but need your help. Tory Worries is an online dossier of worries that people have of having a Tory government after the next general election, and I think this is the best place for me to be advertising the site. Please visit Tory Worries and add yo...

As many of you will be aware I run a website called the Scottish Independence Guide at It came as something of a shock therefore to receive an email asking me to put a link up to a new pro-Scottish independence web site at Now obviously the similar domain name is fine for a pro independence site, but the email also included my site logo (below). Even worse when I went to the site it had it plaster...

The Home Office has been forced to amend its website after a user was directed to a Japanese pornographic site by mistake. A member of the public was diverted to the site while looking for information about anti-terrorism powers on the site of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism. He clicked on a link to an external site for the Technical Advisory Board, which advises ministers on interne...

Canadian police said today that they had pulled over a car containing "dangerous materials" near the site where an international summit will be held in Toronto this weekend.

The story below is causing a few problems for some new readers.I checked my traffic levels this evening to find that today is my best day ever (albeit this is not a site that gets huge traffic). Curious I thought. After all, the two posts have been quirky rather than the sort of thing my readers (mainly political) go for.So I checked the referers list to find that the traffic all seems to be comin...