Holding politicians to account - Ashton, CND and a perfectly acceptable question
Today MEP Nigel Farage, democratically elected, questioned non elected - ever - High Commissioner Ashton over her CND history.This is the same Nigel Farage who exposed to the parliament in 2004 that one of the European Commissioners - more powerful than MPs - had a conviction for embezzlement. Baroness Ashton, rewarded for bulldozing the hateful Lisbon Constitution through the House of Lords - is in charge of EU foreign and security policy and used to me a member of CND.The security service (MI5) has carried out surveillance of CND members it considered to be subversive. From the late 1960s until

Britblog Roundup - The Power of the Blogosphere edition
What ho! Welcome to this latest edition of the Britblog roundup. In writing this edition is has brought home more than ever the importance of the work we all do, no matter what our political persuasion or what we write about. The fact that we do is vital to our culture and freedoms and should be whole heartedly embraced.That leads me straight into the first subject which Matt Wardman has written about. It's the case of Baroness (life peer, natch) Buscombe, speaking at the Society of Editors about a desire to regulate the blogosphere. Apparen

A note to pedestrians
If there's a bike cycling along the road (that's the tarmaced thing where things travel along at speed and you shoudn't walk into the middle of it) - normally given away by bright clothing and flashing lights don't fucking walk out in front of it. Keep your fucking eyes open and look at what you're doing.I know the chances are that you have some nice man to do everything for you and even stepping off the kerb to hail a cab is an effort but so try because I don't want to hit you: not because I care about you but because it will really hurt me and my bike.

PA quotes of the day
"Maybe it is healthier but that should be people's choice and not because a pop star thinks farting cows and pigs herald the end of mankind" - Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall criticises Sir Paul McCartney's campaign to encourage meat eaters to go without flesh one day a week to cut greenhouse gases emitted by cattle.

Ed Balls up education
I was delighted to read yesterday that Prince Charles has stopped talking to plants in order to tell that fool Ed Balls that it's a really, really bloody stupid idea to stop teaching children useful things when they're at school.Traditional subjects such as history and geography are to be sidelined in the biggest shake-up of primary education for 20 years. Ed Balls vowed to press ahead with changing the curriculum to more general themes and topics...Under the Children's Secretary's plans,