Author Archives: Tim Ireland

About Tim Ireland

Tim is the sole author of Bloggerheads.

Lynn Elson and Nadine Dorries: peas in a pub

The good people at the Telegraph have just reported the following: Telegraph – MPs’ expenses: Nadine Dorries paid £35,000 to close friend in PR: Between September 2008 and June 2009, Mrs Dorries claimed £34,059.75 for the services of the company … Continue reading

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Gina Khan has a problem with bullying

Gina Khan is a 40-something woman who speaks out against radical Muslims, with a focus on the rights of women born into Muslim society. As the Times reports, the price she has paid for this is intimidation at the hands … Continue reading

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Here’s what happens when Conservatives cry ‘stalker’

This exchange is typical of Iain Dale; he sees the word ‘fake’ and/or ‘opportunist’, and screams ‘insult’, but he’ll throw the most awful accusations about himself and later defend it as ‘banter’ or ‘opinion’. One of his favourites is an … Continue reading

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To: Nick Catt

[NOTE – UK-based web hosts are particularly easy to bully thanks to certain peculiarities in local libel laws, and people acting for (or on behalf of) Redwire Design have been taking advantage of that, by bullying my priovider rather than … Continue reading

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The definition of relevance

The folks from Wordia asked me to choose a word and contribute to their project. I chose the word ‘relevance’, and this is the result: If it’s seems I’m pressing one factor over the other, it’s because validity of the … Continue reading

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Redwire Design

[NOTE – UK-based web hosts are particularly easy to bully thanks to certain peculiarities in local libel laws, and people acting for (or on behalf of) Redwire Design have been taking advantage of that, by bullying my priovider rather than … Continue reading

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PCC PETITION; PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY

Quite inexplicably, the good people from ipetitions.com refuse to hand over the data we collected via their site prior to the sudden disappearance of our petition. I take this as a pretty good sign that they have somehow (for unknown … Continue reading

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ipetitions.com

Just to let you know; ipetitions.com are really dragging their heels on fixing whatever glitch resulted in the removal of the PCC petition, and they have so far ignored my request for the data collected so far (i.e. so I … Continue reading

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Kooba Radio

[NOTE – UK-based web hosts are particularly easy to bully thanks to certain peculiarities in local libel laws, and people acting for (or on behalf of) Redwire Design have been taking advantage of that, by bullying my priovider rather than … Continue reading

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My heart skipped a beat for a moment there

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