The Green Party, practising what it preaches (or saving money) is releasing an online-only manifesto.
Author: Anthony
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Let us, kind Lesbia, give away…
A fantastic multi-lingual edition of Catullus.
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Electiontastic
A great list of UK election resources at DO-wire.
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Brewing in Horsham
I had a good pint while I was out today – Hepworth’s Pullman Ale, brewed in Horsham. I looked on the internet for more information on the brewery and found this interesting article on the fate on brewing in Horsham. If reading it makes you want to support a local Sussex brewer, I can recommend Harveys of Lewes.
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The arrogance of small media
So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasn’t a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something.
Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and ‘big media’ who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses.
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A Pope-y political broadcast
Dennis Brown pushes the envelope on the tradition of not campaigning before papal elections.
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Fiction vs. reality, and fiction wins
If you want an illustration of the way things are today (TM), you can’t do better than to walk into Waterstones Piccadilly. I went in there at lunchtime looking for a book about Papal elections (this one), and I couldn’t find a copy on the shelves. This was not because they had sold out through demand.
What was on the shelves, by the hundreds and on a special half-price offer? The bloody Da Vinci Code, of course.
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Cab driver logic
Great vox pop on Newsnight earlier today, from some random punter in Leicester:
I’m not a racist, but I just think there are too many coloureds.
Coming soon to a voter near you – “I’m not a Liverpool supporter, but I’ve dyed my hair red, named my child Milan Baros, and I want You’ll never walk alone played at my funeral.”