Comments on: Web of Deceit: Bloggers worse than Al Qaeda, say Labour

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:35:20 +0000

Beatroot: Really? I took the opposite message – that it’s a pitch for moral agency. I didn’t think the film was saying Government was coming to save me. I took the message to be that we should reign in our ‘over consuming passions’. We’re was the offer to bail out the poor unfortunate spendthrift?

ejh: Seconded.

By: ejh

ejh — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:19:06 +0000

It is not a curiosity that Labour are concerned that bloggers may have damaged the political culture in which we live, but not – given their permanent silence on the matter – the tabloid press? Are blogs really damaging whereas the Daily Mail and Sun are not?

By: beatroot

beatroot — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:12:43 +0000

The idea of an Ã¢â‚¬Ëœinner tosserÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ – an oily Shatneresque alter-ego that goads you into spending too much and getting into debt – is a catchy one

No it isnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t. It just plays on the fashionable liberal (and religious) idea that we are victims of our over consuming passions and that we need government to come and save us from ourselves.

The Inner Tosser is just a load of old wank.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:27:56 +0000

Nah, it’s all right. It’s just the fireworks haven’t been delivered yet and the fire breathers are double-booked, hence the lack of hoop-la so far.

Big announcement some time soon. Don’t tell anybody but 18 Doughty Street might be worth a look on Monday night.

By: Flying Rodent

Flying Rodent — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:14:50 +0000

Ooops, sorry.

Feel free to delete that comment if you like.

In fact, you’d better delete yours, and this one too, or somebody might smell a rat.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:03:50 +0000

Shhhhh! It’s still a secret!

By: Flying Rodent

Flying Rodent — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:58:12 +0000

Hey, a free book!

Looks like you’ve done a bang-up job editing this one Justin, you’ve picked some excellent posts. I’ll have to check out some of the blogs I’m not familiar with.

I love free stuff, me. Cheers!

By: james higham

james higham — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:40:36 +0000

Dave and Gordon in Cyberspace – most definitely has a ring to it.

By: Rick B

Rick B — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:52:47 +0000

The Ã¢â‚¬Ëœinner tosserÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ thing is really just old-fashioned Tory-ism, itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s the poors fault they are poor it is a moral failing. Without context the ad seems like common sense, but the context is of a right wing party that favours the rich implying debt is purely a function of an individualÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s irresponsible greed. Same old, same old.