Green party manifesto
The Green Party, practising what it preaches (or saving money) is releasing an online-only manifesto.
Anthony Zacharzewski
Let us, kind Lesbia, give away...
A fantastic multi-lingual edition of Catullus.
Electiontastic
A great list of UK election resources at DO-wire.
Brewing in Horsham
I had a good pint while I was out today ā Hepworthās 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
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The arrogance of small media
So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasnāt a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something.
Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and ābig mediaā who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses.
A Pope-y political broadcast
Dennis Brown pushes the envelope on the tradition of not campaigning before papal elections.
Who owns Osama bin Laden?
Martin Peretz writes about the war on terror in the current
Fiction vs. reality, and fiction wins
If you want an illustration of the way things are today (TM), you canāt 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 couldnāt find a copy on the shelves. This was
Cab driver logic
Great vox pop on Newsnight earlier today, from some random punter in Leicester:
Iām not a racist, but I just think there are too many coloureds.
Coming soon to a voter near you ā āIām not a Liverpool supporter, but Iāve dyed my hair red, named my child