Category Archives: The Political Weblog Movement
Iain Dale’s daily fail
Tch. And to think that only last week he was returning from Teh Holy Land with a message of peace, mung-beans and understanding: Iain Dale – Parliament Should Decide on Prisoners’ Voting Rights – Not Judges: When you go to … Continue reading
Hazel Blears: passing interest and passing judgement
How does that speech made by Hazel Blears warrant careful analysis? It only barely qualifies for a link. The name-dropping is an obvious plea for attention, which ironically rewards two attention-seekers with the star billing they crave from others (when … Continue reading
Andrew Gilligan: more sock-puppets found
Further reports are coming in of Andrew Gilligan making comments about his articles while pretending to be someone other than himself. I’m waiting to see a firm denial from Gilligan. When you’re ready, Andrew…. Meanwhile, bloggers who suspect that they … Continue reading
An open thread
Just in case anybody wants a word. You know; to me and not about me. Cheers. (Be prepared to be left waiting. Indefinitely. That’s how the pros do it… or so I’m led to understand.)
Gosh, I wonder where Nadine Dorries learned this trick:
Lib Dem Voice – The curious case of Nadine Dorries’s website traffic: …the claim of 800,000 readers (or any reasonable variation on the term ‘readers’) looks to be wrong. I twice contacted Nadine Dorries’s office asking for an explanation or … Continue reading
Sock-puppeting: it’s a mug’s game
The Tory Troll appears to have caught Andrew Gilligan sock-puppeting. (via) The part that really stings is the link to the ‘kennite’ profile, and comments like this. Ouch. – UPDATE – Hahahahahahahahaha! Ouch! Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!
Sock-puppets, anonymous comments and trolls
(a ‘long and boring’ post on a subject that fascinates me) Some of you chaps must think me a bit odd to be constantly putting myself in the line of fire when it was established long ago that champion ‘bloggers’ … Continue reading
Iain Dale and Nadine Dorries are a pair of liars (try to contain your surprise)
Skip to #5 if you’re in a hurry…. 1. Hey, do you remember that rigged poll of weblogs that Iain Dale claimed was “not meant to be scientific, and has never pretended to be”…? Well, he’s already presenting it as … Continue reading
Total Politics and the Totally Tory Guide To Political Blogging
Short version: Scroll down to the picture. – Long version: Hey, do you remember when I wrote a rather complicated (and greatly estimated) post about Iain Dale vastly overstating his popularity and Iain responded by (oops) accidentally making it very … Continue reading
Total Politics magazine is not answerable to the Press Complaints Commission!
[Note – Yes, I still have what ‘blog poll’ data I could gather at the time saved, and I plan to crunch it when I have the time. Of course, Iain Dale himself could sort the whole matter out in … Continue reading