Over the last couple of days there has been a ridiculous number of hostile and stupid comments on this site. We have witnessed the bizarre spectacle of a supporter of the Continuity IRA and a member of the Socialist Party (certainly NOT their party line, the SP are usually very senisible over this sort of thing)  waving their willies

Michael White gives his reaction to the foreign minister's comments in the Guardian

When the Mail on Sunday first approached Rod Liddle yesterday about comments posted on the Millwall FC site, he denied posting some of the inflammatory comments and claimed the comments had been made by a hacker. Later he admitted making those comments, though not all. Which means that Rod Liddle has a whole host question to answers, as we've done some digging and found very vile comments pos...

I have been contacted by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) Democracy and Un-Socialist Activities Recrimination Commission to make comments on its first report on internal democratic arrangements. This commission was brought about after their last conference by the near collapse of the SWP caused...

Due to a recent spate of anonymous comments I think it's time I set out a comments policy. Comments are welcome and encouraged. Please make sure to keep comments relevant to the blog post (this applies to any links that may be included). Rude, wasteful, off-topic are discouraged but will not be deleted. If you want to make yourself look like an idiot your very much welcome to. I'm also t...

Due to a recent spate of spam type comments I think it's time to post a repeat of this blogs comments policy. Comments are welcome and encouraged. Please make sure to keep comments relevant to the blog post (this applies to any links that may be included). Rude, wasteful, off-topic are discouraged but will not be deleted. If you want to make yourself look like an idiot your very much welcome ...

Why does Michael Caine get up at six o'clock in the morning? He is 76 years old and, according to the Sunday Times "Rich List", has made about £45m from his Hollywood career. He has worked very hard, done very well and surely deserves to take it a bit easy in his old age. But no, by his own account it is at six that he rises in order to go to work - and he does this not for himself,...

You might have noticed a few changes over the last week. We’ve performed some surgery on the database which will hopefully speed things up, but more importantly you can now subscribe to comments by email and edit & delete your own comments. We’re trying out a few ways of making it easier to preview and

Online Editor Tom Whitwell writes: Two years ago, Times Online was one of the first newspaper websites in Britain to allow readers to leave comments at the bottom of almost every article we publish*. The experiment was a dramatic success....

This is the comments policy at Liberal conspiracy: 'We have a tight comments policy aimed at fostering constructive debate. We believe in free speech but not your right to abuse our space. Abusive, sarcastic or silly comments may be deleted. Misogynist, racist, homophobic and xenophobic comments will be deleted. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy.' This is what they wou...