Jack Off - never mind the White Stripes, Coke really isn’t it.

BBC “must improve Mid-East view” - one to keep the Biased BBC crowd happy

The Top 50 (or so) Labour Sleaze Scandals
Iain Dale is compiling a book of the cream of New Labour scandals. Bob Piper is not happy.

Qwghlm - Why compulsory voting is a terrible idea

Guardian Technology blog: The guestbook spammer loses one payment stream

“Real Madrid can eff all, you arse-face arsing arse-heads”
I’m not trying to raise the Sharpener’s rude word count, nor shock you with poor grammar. I’m simply quoting the finest panel of Medium Large’s recent Brit Week. (That’s just the latest cartoon: there are usually weekly archives, and the last one should be here, but [...]

The danger in writing a relaunch post like this is that it will slip into pretentiousness – and in places it almost certainly does.

Polly Toynbee: Labour MPs at last seem to be ready to ditch Tony BlairIt’s nosepegs ahoy once more, says Polly.

Existing Actually: Living in the thick of it
Are you authoritarian or hippie? Reformer or revolutionary?