Don't situations like these past few days really sort out who your real friends are and who the fair weather friends are? You also find out those whom you thought were friends but turned out to be enemies, through automatic assumptions about you and by the little snide asides by email to third parties. To those true friends - thank you so much. You possibly think that your words of support ar...

I suppose if I was a really serious political blogger I wouldn’t link to stories like this: The likely cause was eventually established – he had apparently been drinking with friends, and had passed out. His friends had decided it...

Obama's team sent out this message to supporters last night. Its a really innovative use of advocacy in Facebook networks Dear friends, Tuesday is the most important election of our lifetimes. Let's make sure everyone on Facebook gets to the polls on election day by making sure our friends do, and that their friends do, and their friends, and their friends...you get the idea. Donate your...

(1) It came from the Telegraph, as died in the blue wool a Tory paper as you can get. It is in the paper's interests to squeeze out any last bits of disquiet over the Labour leadership 'crisis'. There was nothing tangible in the article whatsoever. (2) The story allegedly came from Harman's "friends" but no mention is made of who these friends actually are. In the Iraq War you ...

A prospective MP kissing a child. The Telegraph now has some details of Tory troughing. From what's revealed there, Dai Cameroid needs to do some clearing-out before the next election. All those who have been building property portfolios on expenses have to be ditched. No exceptions. No letting your friends off. Ditch them all or you'll be hearing all about it, over and over again, in th...

George Osborne's scapegoating public sector workers for the excesses of his friends in the City is outrageous and an indication of current Tory thinking, argues Dave Prentis As the eldest son and heir of 17th baronet, Sir Peter Osborne, George Osborne has clearly had a very privileged upbringing. Clearly out of touch with reality, he tried to deflect attention away from his friends in the Cit...

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Tory colleagues want Cameron to shake foundations of Europe

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Troutie's avatar Tom Paine writes of real friendships and online friendships. We certainly need a way in English to distinguish real friends from "blog friends," "Facebook friends," "LinkedIn" or "Second Life" friends. While this holds water, especially in Second Life where nothing is as it seems, I do think that blog friendships do not always have to end in grief. Through unfortunate circums...