A blog name to die for: Underdogs Bite Upwards
A blog I picked up via Ian Whickham at Question That, which has a name every bit as good as the Harry’s Place slogan:
Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.
This is Underdogs Bite Upwards.
Think Tank Round-up…
Welcome to this weeks round-up - everything from drug abuse in prisons and ‘virtual caliphates’ to burying carbon and a dearth of ‘jocks’ on the news. As before please flag in the comments anything worthy you think I might have missed…
Right \ Libertarian Think Tanks
The Centre for Policy Studies has a paper from Huseyin Djemil, […]
Three Score Years and Ten: A Blog to Enjoy
Via Bob Piper’s post “Never Mind the Width” I (memo to self: spend an hour a week “wasting time” surfing new blog), I found a new and interesting blog from my area (Dronfield), Three Score Years and Ten - with the excellent tag-line:
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” - Søren Kierkegaard
Harry Barnes was Labour MP for North-East Derbyshire for the years 1987-2005. He writes about local life (especially Sheffield Football Club - the world’s oldest club founded in 1857), Iraqi and Iranian events. Here are some posts that I enjoyed reading from the last couple of months. You have to navigate the blog via the archives or search facility, as Harry does not use labels or categories.
The new Welsh Wagstaff blog and a Nasty Shock…
A nasty shock when this appeared as a Google advert in my right hand sidebar:
Leaving aside the eminently forgettable service name that falls neatly into the middle of the triangle formed by Diageo, Consignia (do you remember the “vanishing down the plughole” logo), and a nursery rhyme engraved in my memory along the lines of “The Big Ship Sales on the …”, it may be a good service (apparently they do “Professional Networking”). I’m not allowed to click on Google ads on my own blog, so I’m not about to find out. If anyone likes it, do comment!
On a different note, there’s a new Welsh blog that gets the bit between its teeth in Welsh politics called “Miss Wagstaffe presents…”, and goes for the detail. In a Welsh Assembly Government that may turn out to always be a set of rotating coalitions, it may be that bloggers can be a force to keep politicians’ behaviour at least vaguely transparent.
