Warning: This is a long and tedious article and I would not blame anyone who decides to skip it entirely. I have disabled comments for this specific article (something I have never done before in my almost 7 years of blogging). I am writing it only to document for archival purposes an unpleasant series of comments made last night on an article I wrote almost two weeks ago; I regret nothing I

Typepead appears to be swallowing comments for some reason: it is them - I'm not allowed to inker with their algorthm. Anyway, I've published all the comments I found in the spamtrap and have written a tart email to cutomer...

Skelliwag has recently published an excellent article about the bad bits and the good bits about running a popular blog. I have used he subheads and made a couple of comments on my opinions. It is something I will use as a checklist for the future. I have taken Skellie’s points and made comments The unique challenges 1. Lots

Rob Parsons commented: OK, I have a nice letter from the Telegraph. What now? It looks as if Rob got the same letter I did, which read as follows: Thank you for your email of 27 May 2009, which was addressed to telegrapheditorial. While we note your comments, we believe that the above article was written and in

A ROW has erupted among Scottish councils, with Cosla president Pat Watters reacting angrily to "unjustified and slanderous" comments in an email from George Kay of Fi

Harry' s Place disappeared, Guido asked them what happened:Last Friday, Harry's Place republished an email sent to the Universities and Colleges Union activists email list by a Sheffield based academic, Jenna Delich. In that email, she linked to the website of the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke and recommended an article by the racist conspiricy theorist Joe Quinn, on the Isra...

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I sent my council an email. The email was about their rather threatening voter registration form. Well, to my surprise, they have responded… Dear Rob Thank you for your e-mail dated 23 August. We are grateful for your comments on the contents of our form and guidance leaflet. The Register of

People in bed in the morning run the risk of being telephonically doorstepped by Gordon Brown before they have even had a chance to have breakfast. But is this political engagement 2.0 - can you send him an email to ask to be taken off the list? I've asked him. Click on the title to read my article, or access the service Tim is running for 24 hours to email Mr Brown, complete with personal de...

David Miliband's article in the Guardian is lucid, intelligent, thoughtful and well constructed. I like David both personally and politically.  So an article setting out such his analysis of the future should enthuse and motivate me. After all, I agree with 99% of it. Yet I read the Guardian article with a sinking feeling in my stomach. Intentionally or not, it will

As silly comments go, Maddy Bunting's idiocy is generally good for a giggle. So thanks to the email correspondant who pointed out this quite, quite brilliant article, containing a quite nervously brilliant quote... Hayek became the founding father of a model of economic management which has brought us to the current crisis; Polanyi, with extraordinary prescience, warned that the crisis would come;...