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It Looks Wonderful – But Does it Work?

I have a brand new shiny blog but can I fly it? I’ll never get over Macho Grande.

Infinite thanks to Tim Ireland for the extraordinary amount of work involved in getting this blog moved over from Movable Type to WordPress. Not to mention cleaning out over 300,000 pieces of spam. Transferring the 57,000 (yes, really that many) remaining genuine comments on to the Intense Debate plugin has been even more onerous and is still not complete. While that process goes on, comments will have to be delayed by moderation. Volunteer moderators from longstanding and trusted associates and contributors are welcome.

Thanks as ever also to Richard Kastelein and expathos for their fearless hosting.

Many of you will be familiar with WordPress; input is welcome on the format, look and working of the new site and which plugins you would particularly want to see.

Events over the last few months has made this blog’s largely international focus, particularly on human rights and the Islamic world as impacted by Western foreign policy, more relevant than ever. So if I can post this, then enough of the admin and let me get down to the real work.

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Debate Chat #38 – Most Vicious Political Attack of the Night

To everybody’s surprise, YouGov for Murdoch have produced a post debate poll showing a far greater lead for Cameron than any other poll. So YouGov have made the most vicious political attack of the night. I have just sent this email.

To:

[email protected]

Dear Sleazy Stephan,

Could you kindly confirm whether you again opened voting in your post debate poll as soon as Cameron finished his summing up, or did you wait until everyone had finished summing up this time?

Craig

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Debate chat #21

Brown giving a really unconvincing list as to which economic sectors will provide which number of jobs in future. “Bio-engineering 100,000 jobs, renewable energy 300,000 jobs, information technology 200,000 jobs” – those aren’t actually the exact quotes, but it sounded just like nonsense so the exact numbers and sectors don’t matter. This time he was the regional economic planner for Murmansk in 1965 – oh God, he’s started with another list again just now…

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