Guardian Poll - Should the blogosphere be regulated?

"Baroness Buscombe, chair of the Press Complaints Commission, is reported to be considering extending the PCC's remit to the regulation of bloggers, as they often now break news stories".

She'd like to kill what's left of our democracy!

They want to close the last bastion of free speech!

They can fuck the fuck off!

WOW - I've got to pass this on!

From Captain Ranty! (thank you)

A piece by Dr Sean Gabb!

And a Free Press Book Download (PDF)

Bad Feeling....

I have a bad feeling about Obama. I hope I'm wrong but I can't help thinking the USA is going to go mega socialist and end up rather like the UK. 

A little too much is being made of the whole "black" and "slavery" thing. He should stay away from those issues and concentrate on "Americans" as a whole. It will alienate alot of his white supporters and enrage those of the far right. 

Click the Pic

The artwork is by a very talented Greek artist called Charis Tsevis. The portrait is a mosiac made up of Obama supporters. This is the medium image from Flickr. The larger ones are stunningly brilliant, worth a look.

Tired

I was thinking today about all the things that are making me so angry. I realised why alot of people just give up. Its hard when you have to work and think of all those "normal things" to keep fighting. Its quite exhausting. I wouldn't mind if I thought it was doing some good, if I thought my objections to NuLabour and my warnings to the Conservatives not to become too dictatorial were going to help. We seem to fighting an almost impossible battle.

I find it hard to post, basically because I'm angry about so many things, I just get tongue-tied.

All I know is, things aren't how they should be, I feel its all going wrong. Something ominous is happening and I (like alot of others), have to say my piece.

Death of a Democracy

This post is inspired by the arrest of Damian Green. It's a subject that concerns us all and has become increasingly serious since NuLabour have come to power. As each day passes, I am astounded at the pace at which the government seem to be taking over each aspect of UK life.

NuLabour can hardly be accused of being a moral, ethical party so to have this poor man arrested by anti terrorism police is absolutely an overstepping the boundaries of normal police power. Mr Green has a wife and two children, what on earth must they be thinking?

If this is an attempt by NuLabour to discredit the Tory party in any way, then I am sorry to inform them that this has backfired! All they have managed to achieve is to convince the electorate that they are indeed living in a police state and rapidly speeding down the road to a communist regime.