Political predictions for 2012: open thread
HAPPY New Year, readers. Rather then write anything substantial myself today – I am still feeling a tad delicate after somewhat exceeding government drink unit guidelines last night, to be honest – I will instead open the comments box for any reflections people may have on likely developments in the year ahead. Here at home, tensions [...]
Ed Miliband vs Hugh Gaitskell: a thought experiment
SUNDAY afternoon finds me engaged in a spot of leisurely freelance journalism. I’ve just knocked out 1,000 words on employment trends for a union magazine, for which I will get not ungenerous NUJ rates. Now I’m writing something for a small circulation leftist publication, for which I will of course not get a penny. The following [...]
WTF is MySQL4?
I HAVE just had this email from the company that hosts this website: You are receiving this notification because you still have a MySQL4 database on your account for the domain davidosler.com. This message is to inform you that as of May 30 we are launching a campaign to change the default MySQL server from MySQL4 [...]
Blog of the week: New Left Project
UP AND running for some time - but new to me, and attracting quite a bit of attention right now - is New Left Project. This is impressive group blog in the Red Pepper-ish milieu that features quite a few familiar leftie writers, such as Ed Rooksby, Joseph Healy of Green Left, Elly Badcock, Guy Aitchison, Richard Seymour, Sunny Hundal, [...]
Two angry new blogs
Rage Against the Coalition is here. And Diary of a Benefit Scrounger is here. Check ‘em out, both are worth the read. Bookmark It
On the spurious equation of Ahmadinejad and Hitler
YES, I know it ranks among the biggest clichés in all of barroom philosophy. But let’s say they do one day invent time travel and you could go back to 1907 Vienna. Would it be ethical to seek out a penniless postcard painter called Adolph Hitler and kill him, thereby sparing history World War Two? [...]
Follow me on Twitter
OK, ONLY x number of years after it was fashionable, I have finally signed up for Twitter. The homepage is www.twitter.com/davidosler Now can any of my younger readers please tell me WTF a hashtag is? Bookmark It
Johanna Kaschke: the strange case of the Tory ‘suspected of links to leftwing extremists’
TOWER Hamlets Tory activist Johanna Kaschke really is one cherry short of a Schwarzwälderkirschtorte. [CONTENT TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED PENDING THREAT OF LEGAL ACTION] Because the judgment attracts absolute privilege, I can also quote Eady’s finding that in the 1970s Ms Kaschke ‘played a minor role in organising a benefit concert in aid of “Red Help”, which provided [...]
Schwarzwälderkirschtorte: the verdict
MR JUSTICE Eady will hand down his verdict in the libel action brought against me by Tower Hamlets Tory activist Johanna Kaschke on Thursday morning. As is standard practice, both parties have had advance notice of the decision. Unfortunately, my solicitors – Robert ‘Legal King’ Dougans and David Allen Green – have threatened to shoot me if [...]
