Wardman Wire Magazine UK Edition

This week’s Britblog Roundup has gone down market and is over at Brassneck on the Telegraph website, and it’s come out this week at roughly the right time for once..

Today Brassneck joins the BritBlog Roundup network. It’s my first go at it, so Roundup veterans, please be patient if I confound your expections (in a bad way, that is).

It may seem strange to have a big-media blog joining the network. Have a look at Mick Fealty’s post last week “On the importance of engagement in blogging…” to understand the thinking; it is all about convergence and training journalists and the big media to pick up on the conversational aspects of blogging, in addition to the “promotional” and “informality” aspects they have already embraced.

The best posts in the British blogosphere have been rounded up by Mr Eugenides this week.

Featured posts include this Sino-Sceptic Beau Bo D’Or cartoon and a report on the 437 BBC personnel visiting Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, which compares with 300 British Competitors and “several” politicians and their retinue. Oh - and 39 policemen.

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup – everything from ‘new money’ and supply-side oil crunches to the call for better teachers and yes, Michael Gove’s ‘Nuts’ (there was more to his speech than that storm suggested). Things seem to be quiet […]

This week’s Britblog is in a summary style due to the fact that time is short.

Diving straight in …

Another one has broken cover. Phil Grooms SPCK/SSG blog has made public his full ‘Cease and Desist’ from Mark Brewer, with a post here noting that, of the 5 websites Phil was asked to take down, 2 of which are nothing to do with him!

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Don’t let the mention of that lazy trope ‘political correctness’ put you off this weeks ‘must read’ piece -the CPS report ‘Through the Looking Glass’ on Western foreign policy and the sometimes erroneous attitudes that frame it. No roundup next week […]

This is the second in the lastest series of Blogpower Roundups, and this is my roundup of some of the current live issues around Civil Liberties. I’ve only been able to cover half of the Blogpower blogs, but I’ll do another one soon with the other half.

While there are differences between bloggers on some questions at the edge on just what comes under Civil Liberties, there’s usually a strong consensus around the right to self-expression, and that restriction of topics that we can write about or the excessive monitoring of online activity are BAD things.

Heather Yaxley has reflected on the whole theme of Defending Blogs.

Colin Campbell’s comment about extra speed cameras in South Australia prompted me to do some digging into just how many speed cameras we have now in the UK. The answer: one hell of a lot - perhaps 10,000 plus all those installed in cars and on motorcyles.

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
This week’s ‘must read’ item is the Theos report on the role of Christianity in Britain today, more details below. Other than that enjoy and as ever please flag anything I may have missed. Also if anyone would like to be […]

Is over at A Very British Dude.

The roundup is a compendium of last week’s outstanding posts in the British Blogosphere.

This week, there are several posts from here featured. Go there to see.

Is over at Amused Cynicism.

The roundup is a compendium of last week’s outstanding posts in the British Blogosphere.