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The Guardian reports on recent successes by Britain’s favourite mob of semiliterate fascists, the British National Party. Apparently, one BNP councillor had to be “taught what it meant to abstain” at a council meeting last week. Amusing, but there is no place for blatant smuggery when a wannabe politician like the BNP’s John West can…

Times Online Interesting report..

BB link So the habit of shooting Iraqi policemen is spreading! “There has been one death here over the past week – there was a demonstration at the stadium where the Italians are overseeing te payment of stipends (regular money) to the ex-Iraqi Army. The system was bollocks, people complained, stones were thrown, the Iraqi…

Preparation for massive terrorist attack has been a major theme of life since September, 2001, and one that governments have been tackling in various ways. The US, of course, has already built a gigantic new bureaucracy for this task (the department of homeland security, and its military twin the US Northern Command). In the UK,…

You will no doubt have noticed the Ranter Coverage RSS feeds on the sidebar on your right. I’ve also just transferred those Blogs of Distinction that have RSS/XML capability to the Coverage section, so we now get their latest stuff. BeirutCalling, however, isn’t RSS equipped, so you’ll just have to click on the link. Isn’t…

Billy Hayes – the weblog We are proud to link to Communication Workers’ Union leader Billy Hayes’s blog. Better yet, you’ll notice that it’s been added to the news feed under Ranter Coverage.

USS Clueless Well, here we are, at one of Blogstreet’s “most influential blogs”. It’s a routine truth that this usually means a propaganda slot for Bush, but we may as well pay some attention to the ‘tothersiders for a while. 1. We may note that they share an obsession with Yasser Arafat as the root…

They’ve appeared on my new RSS feed (NEW TOY!). Thanks to Blogstreet.com

So, almost exactly 24 hours after I posted the last three items to this blog – Blogger still hasn’t motivated itself to publish them. Push-button publishing, my arse.

Alistair Campbell’s resignation last week was universally considered a key moment in British politics. The reason why, was this: he provided a number of personality traits that Tony Blair never had and never will have, with the advantage that being an appointee rather than a civil servant or minister, he could be disposed of more…