Bollocks to the lot of it. If the blogosphere was a pub you’d be looking for another one less stuffed with wankers.

Back in a bit.

So very sorry.

A worried somebody phoned me and ended up calling me a very rude word. Thank you to those lovely, concerned citizens who emailed to make sure I wasn’t being waterboarded. Now, obviously, would be the best time for the authorities to have me disappeared.

I’ve just upgraded the WordPress software that runs the blog to a new version. It generally involves all kinds of sexy options for maintaining the blog - behind the scenes stuff. As such, there shouldn’t be too much to show for it for the reader.

If anybody does notice anything funny going on, would you mind letting me know in comments. Ta.

I’ve installed a Threaded Comments plugin on the blog to give it a go. Basically, it allows commenters to reply to a specific comment. It then groups those comments together meaning you can several conversations running for any individual post. Sounds very nice.

There’s an example of me replying to comments here.

Here we are again, happy as can be. Let’s hope for longer than last time. We never did get to the bottom of just what happened but Chicken Yoghury wasn’t the only blog to fall victim to scumbags - Nosemonkey and The Sharpener being just two others.

Anyway. I’ve taken the opportunity to rebuild the blog from scratch, tidy the place up a bit, add some new features, and bin some old ones. If anybody’s missing anything or has any suggestions, please pipe up and I’ll have a look.

Thanks to WordPress’s import doohicky, I’ve been able to move all the posts from my redoubtable fallback position, Chicken Backup, to this place. Should Chicken Yoghurt go down again, let’s all head on back over to Backup.

I’ve also taken up Twittering again, so my tweets will appear here in a daily digest. If you haven’t tried it, I really recommend giving it a go. You can fire your blog’s RSS feed into it or the one from your moblog or whatever. And writing blog posts - from your mobile phone, Instant Messenger, web browser, third party thingamajig or Twitter itself - in 140 characters or less is a nice little mental exercise with the need for economy and succinctness.

Just need to say that big love has to go to Jo and Ben for helping me out getting this place sorted again. And also to Clive who I owe big time.

Let’s roll.

PS. I’m really, really, really sorry that everybody on the email list got all 100 posts sent again when I imported the Chicken Backup posts to Chicken Yoghurt. The post emailer went a bit doolally. Sorry.

Chicken Yoghurt is three years old today. Special love to everybody who’s linked, commented and supported over the last year.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to say a big ‘fuck you very much’ to all those who’ve made blogging such an unpleasant experience of late. The twats masquerading as wits, the illiterate posing as the lettered, the idiotic dressed as the intellectual, the liars wearing honesty’s coat - you’ve all helped to make British blogging the stinking, ill-regarded craphouse it is today. Very well done.

Here’s to the next three years!

…so I’ve laid in a crate of import-strength lager and my shortest temper, as is traditional at this time of year. I’ve been out and done the obligatory ’spend money you haven’t got on stuff people don’t need’ so I’ve discharged my responsibility to the economy. Gordon Brown shouldn’t refer to us as voters or tax payers. No, we should be his army of little economic Atlases. All wearing Santa hats if that makes you feel any better.

Anyway, I’m off now to bitch incessantly about how the telly is shit again this year. Happy whatever to you and yours. Back in a bit.

Here’s your pressie:

(Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.)

Hopefully all the wrinkles have been ironed out.

While the blog’s been down I’ve been entertaining myself with idle revenge fantasies against the horrible little spunker who orchestrated the Denial of Service attack in the first place.

Some of the details of the attack are quite interesting. The blog wasn’t just hammered from one source but several. The IP addresses of those sources were very intriguing.

Two IP addresses were of note. One was sourced back to the offices of one of the UK’s larger gas and electricity suppliers. God knows what jobs its online abuse team do but chasing online abuse doesn’t seem to be one of them.

The other IP address was sourced back to a department within the American government. I did toy with idea of sending my server logs showing the attack to the FBI’s Cyber Investigations department. What larks that could be.

Don’t get me wrong, whoever did this shows some small spark of sapience. Spoofing IP addresses must take some rudimentary skill. I’m not suggesting real intelligence, more a driving instinct like the one that makes a dung beetle push shit around for a living. Yes, that kind of thing.

Hello. Well, it looks like I picked the wrong month for my blog to be on the receiving end of a Denial of Service attack, doesn’t it? For a minute there I was worried the government might fall before I was able give vent to my self-importance once again.

I suppose I should be pleased and flattered that some lonely little sociopath was offended enough to deem me worthy of their time, attention and effort. Generating thousands upon thousands of ‘404 page not found‘ errors on Chicken Yoghurt, exceeding the bandwidth quota and thus taking down the site clearly demanded a very special brand of dysfunctional personality.

But then I think, no. Isn’t it just another example of the societal and cultural zeitgeist that has always been and will always be with us? Namely, the knuckle-dragging tendency that - rather than attempt an arrangement of reasonably carefully chosen words - reaches for a blunt instrument. It’s the instinctive reaction when words fail a certain kind of person, I suppose.

Anyway, I’m back. Kudos and undying gratitude must go to the very excellent Mr Clive Summerfield who has taken me under his technological wing.

Special love must also go to Chicken Yoghurt’s number one fan who made the return possible. They know who they are. As do the people who emailed to ask if everything was ok.

Many thanks must also go, however, to the ‘maverick’ with the ‘elite’ ‘hacker’ ’skills’ who no doubt rubbed himself with self-appreciation when Chicken Yoghurt went down the other week. You see, while the blog was down, I wrote this piece about the Labour Party donor scandal for The Guardian’s Comment is Free blog, just to keep my hand in. It was meant as a puckish, throwaway, Brooker-esque romp; a self-satisfied poke at all involved.

So, imagine my gleeful surprise when the piece was later selected as an ‘editor’s pick’. This means in a week or two, I’ll be receiving a small cheque by way of recognition. As coincidence would have it, this sum is a little over my webhosting fees for the next year. If it wasn’t for our bell-end of a hacker chum, I’d have had to find that money myself. Instead, the Guardian will foot the bill. Ah, the silver lining.

I must, however, also send a message of sympathy and pity to our king dong of a hacker chum. Why sympathy and pity, you ask? Well, I once felt as he does: my ‘enthusiasm’ for computers defined who I was, my resentful inarticulacy made me want to lash out and my only comfort was incessant masturbation.

I was thirteen. I do hope, for his sake, that our pendulous ballsack of a hacker chum has a similar excuse, the inadequate little quim. Time for them to spend less time at their keyboard, perhaps? They could pay someone to have sex with them, maybe?

As I say, I’m back. We have much to discuss…

I’ve finally bitten the bullet and divorced the bowel-achingly tedious Facebook. I’ve ‘deactivated’ my relationship with her. I got sick to the gills with her constant banging on. ‘Justin, come and look at this’, she kept saying. ‘Justin, come and do this’, she kept suggesting. Join that, poke this, invite the other. Nag, nag, bloody nag.

It makes me laugh that there are thousands of people out there who are screaming at the tops of their lungs that they’d rather go to bed with John Prescott than submit their details to an ID card database, but there they are cheerfully fessing up to their political affiliations, educational histories, reading and viewing habits, what they’re doing at the weekend and all the rest on a ’social network’ which is, get this, AN ENORMOUS BLOODY DATABASE.

I was one of them. Not any more. So there.

Back after the blip of the last couple of days. I exceeded my bandwidth, not as any measure of popularity - my visitor statistics wouldn’t massage a gnat’s ego let alone one that needs constant buffing like mine - but because the site’s being bombarded by search engine crawlers again. Just had to wait for November 1 to tick over when my monthly bandwidth limit was reset.

So anyway, yes. Back.

I’m nearly dead. Some bastard lurgie has laid me low for two days. I owe a load of people emails which will be arriving soon(ish) once I’ve stopped sweating like a National winner and having unsettling dreams about being inducted into a cult.

In the meantime, can I just say that the new Radiohead album has soothed my fevered brow today. It’s amazing. I am now quite ashamed at the piffling amount I paid for it.

In other news, this is funny. At Prime Minister’s Questions today, Gordon Brown gloated about a petition on the Downing Street website calling for a General Election and only having 26 signatures. It now has loads. All good fun. However, if you sign it before December 1 when the electoral rolls are updated, you’re an utter bastard who should go and live in North Korea.

And now, back to my plague bed…

Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is back. Craig Murray will hopefully be back very soon.

Update 2/10: Clive Summerfield’s back as well.

While his Bloggerheads site is being restored, Tim Ireland is blogging about the Alisher Usmanov business right here.

If anybody would be kind enough to spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated.

Dear Sky News

Thank you for your press release hawking your hilarious political Top Trumps. It has been filed away in the usual place. I was gratified that you obviously took the time to look around my blog before including me in your mass unsolicited mail-out.

You missed this however. Oh, and the political ethos of this blog that would suggest, even to a particularly slow child, that I would rather place my generative organ in a bacon slicer than help shift product for Rupert Murdoch.

On the up side, however, I must praise you for elevating British politics to the level of a card game and boiling down the defining characteristics of our leaders to their looks and charisma. Democracy is safe in your hands.

Love

Justin

UPDATE Thursday 27/9 @ 9.30am: Apologies for the slack service yesterday.

• Tim Ireland is now well and truly back in the saddle over at Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair. He now has a timeline of events describing everything that has a happened so far. Plenty of juicy detail in there with many a twist and turn.
• 291 people now linking to and blogging about this story. A lot of bloggers on the list are now following up on their original posts - there’s a lot of great stuff put there if you do a little browsing. I’ve noticed one or two people apologising about ‘coming late to the party’. Please, don’t. This isn’t a race, this about sharing views and showing solidarity. If you haven’t blogged this yet and would like to, or have but haven’t let us know, please do.
• The Moscow Times have reported on it. The story was slashdotted here.

UPDATE Tuesday 25/9 @ 12.30pm: While his Bloggerheads site is being restored, Tim Ireland is blogging about all this here. I’ll continue to maintain the list of people blogging and linking to all this if people still wish to send me links.

UPDATE Tuesday 25/09 @ 8.45am:

• 251 people now linking and blogging. Keep them coming - many thanks to everyone linking and pointing out links.
• The Register is now covering the story.
• As are Associated Press.
• Matthew Wardman has an MP3 of Five Live’s Pods and Blogs slot featuring Clive Summerfield, Mr Eugenides and Bob Piper.
• Beau Bo D’Or has some more spiffy blog buttons.

Let me know if anybody sees anything else we should be linking to.

HEADS UP 24/9: Mr Eugenides and Bob Piper will be on Five Live’s Pods and Blogs slot this evening, talking about all this. The show will also be available tomorrow the BBC’s listen again feature and as a podcast.

HEADS-UP: Pickled Politic’s Sunny Hundal is on More 4 News this evening (21/9) at 8pm talking about this and free speech on the web. (UPDATE 21/9 @ 10PM - Mike Power has the video.)

Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. You can thank the latest Russian (that should be Uzbek) billionaire to reach the UK. The details will come out in due course.

Tim’s currently also without email so if anyone needs to get hold of him, I’m happy to be the go-between and pass on any message by phone. My email address is at the top of the page.

This also means that the family of websites that Tim and Clive (whose site is also down) look after are also currently AWOL. So if you’re missing the online presences of Craig Murray, Bob Piper or prospective candidate for London mayor Boris Johnson, now you know why they’ve gone.

Tim and Clive are now looking for a new web home for themselves and the rest and are hoping to be back within 48 hours. If any sympathetic souls would help spread the word, it would be most appreciated.

Update: Some more background (via Garry). Those wishing to know more could do worse than a quick google.

Linkage: Thanks to one and all, I think we can safely say the genie is out of the bottle:

Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, Suesam, Devil’s Kitchen, The Cartoonist, Falco, Casualty Monitor, Forever Expat, Arseblog, Drink-soaked Trots (and another), Pitch Invasion, Wonko’s World, Roll A Monkey, Caroline Hunt, Westminster Wisdom, Chris K, Anorak, Mediawatchwatch, Norfolk Blogger, Chris Paul, Indymedia (with a list of Craig Murray’s articles that are currently unavailable), Obsolete, Tom Watson, Cynical Chatter, Reactionary Snob, Mr Eugenides, Matthew Sinclair, The Select Society, Liberal England, Davblog, Peter Gasston Pitch Perfect, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, Lunartalks, Tygerland, The Crossed Pond, Our Kingdom, Big Daddy Merk, Daily Mail Watch, Graeme’s, Random Thoughts, Nosemonkey, Matt Wardman, Politics in the Zeros, Love and Garbage, The Huntsman, Conservative Party Reptile, Ellee Seymour, Sabretache, Not A Sheep, Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, The People’s Republic Of Newport, Life, the Universe & Everything, Arsenal Transfer Rumour Mill, The Green Ribbon, Blood & Treasure, The Last Ditch, Areopagitica, Football in Finland, An Englishman’s Castle, Freeborn John, Eursoc, The Back Four, Rebellion Suck!, Ministry of Truth, ModernityBlog, Beau Bo D’Or, Scots and Independent, The Splund, Bill Cameron, Podnosh, Dodgeblogium, Moving Target, Serious Golmal, Goonerholic, The Spine, Zero Point Nine, Lenin’s Tomb, The Durruti Column, The Bristol Blogger, ArseNews, David Lindsay, Quaequam Blog!, On A Quiet Day…, Kathz’s Blog, England Expects, Theo Spark, Duncan Borrowman, Senn’s Blog, Katykins, Jewcy, Kevin Maguire, Stumbling and Mumbling, Famous for 15 megapixels, Ordovicius, Tom Morris, AOL Fanhouse, Doctor Vee, The Curmudgeonly, The Poor Mouth, 1820, Hangbitch, Crooked Timber, ArseNole, Identity Unknown, Liberty Alone, Amused Cynicism, Clairwil, The Lone Voice, Tampon Teabag, Unoriginalname38, Special/Blown It, The Remittance Man, 18 Doughty Street, Laban Tall, Martin Bright, Spy Blog The Exile, poons, Jangliss, Who Knows Where Thoughts Come From?, Imagined Community, A Pint of Unionist Lite, Poldraw, Disillusioned And Bored, Error Gorilla, Indigo Jo, Swiss Metablog, Kate Garnwen Truemors, Asn14, D-Notice, The Judge, Political Penguin, Miserable Old Fart, Jottings, fridgemagnet, Blah Blah Flowers, J. Arthur MacNumpty, Tony Hatfield, Grendel, Charlie Whitaker, Matt Buck, The Waendel Journal, Marginalized Action Dinosaur, SoccerLens, Toblog, John Brissenden East Lower, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Peter Black AM, Boing Boing, BLTP, Gunnerblog, LFB UK, Liberal Revolution, Wombles, Focus on Sodbury…, Follow The Money, Freedom and Whisky, Melting Man, PoliticalHackUK, Simon Says…, Daily EM, From The Barrel of a Gun, The Fourth Place, The Armchair News Blog, Journalist und Optimist, Bristol Indymedia, Dave Weeden, Up North John, Gizmonaut, Spin and Spinners, Marginalia, Arnique, Heather Yaxley, The Whiskey Priest, On The Beat, Paul Canning, Martin Stabe, Mat Bowles, Pigdogfucker, Rachel North, B3TA board, Naqniq, Yorkshire Ranter, The Home Of Football, UFO Breakfast Recipients, Moninski , Kerching, e-clectig, Mediocracy, Sicily Scene, Samizdata, I blog, they blog, weblog, Colcam, Some Random Thoughts, Bel is thinking, Vino S, Simply Jews, Atlantic Free Press, Registan, Filasteen, Britblog Roundup #136, Scientific Misconduct Blog, Adam Bowie, Duncan at Abcol, Camera Anguish, A Very British Dude, Whatever, Central News, Green Gathering, Leighton Cooke, Skuds’ Sister’s Brother, Contrast News, Poliblog Perspective, Parish Pump, El Gales, Noodle, Curly’s Corner Shop, Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft, otromundoesposible, Richard Stacy, Looking For A Voice, News Dissector, Kateshomeblog, Writes Like She Talks, Extra! Extra!, Committee To Protect Bloggers, Liberty’s Requiem, American Samizdat, The Thunder Dragon, Cybersoc, Achievable Life, Paperholic, Creative-i, Raedwald, Nobody’s Friend, Lobster Blogster, Panchromatica, Back off, man…, Dan Hardie, Krusenstern, Brendadada, Freace, Boriswatch, Fork Handles, Chris Applegate, Christopher Glamorgan, West Virginia Rebel’s Blog, Instapundit, Powerpymes, iDiligence Forum, Gizmotastic, Demos, Gary Andrews, Neweurasia , Never Trust a Hippy, sub specie aeternitatis, Bananas in the Falklands, The Sharpener, Virtual Light, Stu News, Scraps of Moscow, Danivon, As A Dodo, La Russophobe, PJC Journal, Mick Fealty’s Brassneck, dead brains don’t dance, A Comfortable Place, Bamblog, Robert Amsterdam, The Customer, No Longer at Ease, Rachel-Catherine, Humaniform, Mike Rouse, Chesus Yuste, anticapitalista, Aderyn Cân, Ulla’s Amazing Wee Blog, Ross200, Disruptive, Internazionale.it, The Obscurer, A Lefty Down Under, Things I Learned or Made Up, Pickled Bushman, Persons Unknown (302).

…and to the person who was quick off the mark with Usmanov’s Wikipedia entry.

If you’ve blogged this and I’ve missed you, I apologise. Let me know in the comments and I’ll add you in - strength in numbers and all that.

UPDATE: A point of clarification: Of the blogs mentioned above, only Craig Murray and Tim Ireland made blog posts concerning Alisher Usmanov. It is these blog posts that were objected to by Usmanov’s lawyers.

Boris Johnson, Bob Piper and Clive Summerfield have lost their sites for the simple reason that they were hosted on the the same server as Craig’s and Tim’s sites and went the same way when the plug was pulled. They are NOT associated with the dispute with Alisher Usmanov in any way.

UPDATE UPDATED: Tim Ireland now has a webmail account for anyone wishing to contact him while his blog is being restored: bloggerheads DOT com AT googlemail DOT com

UPDATE UPDATED UPDATED: Mr Eugenides:

If you can be silenced for calling a businessman a crook, then you can be silenced for calling a politician a crook, too. Then it’s everyone’s problem.

UPDATE 22/09: Clive Summerfield, the mighty webmaster for these sites, has manage to secure back-ups of them all from webhost’s servers. All the data is now safe. He’s now working at uploading the sites to new servers at a different host.

UPDATE 22/09 @ 10am 12:30pm: 154 171 people are linking in to this story here and elsewhere. That’s a huge coalition built in less than 48 hours and encompassing people from all over the spectrum - many thanks to one and all.

UPDATE 22/09 @ 12:40pm: Matt Buck:

(Reproduced under CC licence).

UPDATE 22/09 @ 6:30pm: Facebook group and blog buttons. Mike Power’s buttons are a bit good as well (look under ‘Action Stations’ on his left sidebar).

UPDATE 23/09 @ 8.20am: Ministry of Truth has some rather smart blog buttons as well.

UPDATE 23/09 @ 8.30am: Clive Summerfield, Craig Murray’s webmaster writes:

People are probably encountering posts claiming that Fasthosts also edited a post on Craig’s blog. This was not the case, as anyone who read the comments to the post in question would have noticed.

As the intermediary (Craig’s site was hosted gratis on one of my dedicated servers at Fasthosts), I was trying to pre-empt a further issue, and made a misread correction. This was explained to Craig by email, and an apology given. Yes there are issues of censorship and restricted freedom of speech, but this instance is not one of them.

And believe me, selective editing is far too sophisticated for Fasthosts, they’d have just dropped the site.

The confusion lies in the fact that I hosted Craig’s site on my web-server, but I was more of a supporter, friend and webmaster. However, as I was hosting the site, webhost is also an accurate description. Fasthosts were merely supplying dedicated servers to me.

And for the record, a note was made that 2 changes had been made on legal advice. I’ve been hosting Craig’s blog for a number of years, and helped with the mirroring and distribution of the documents the FCO asked Craig to remove from his book.

Anyway, just trying to put this one matter/misunderstanding to bed, before folks get carried away in an Orwellian haze.

UPDATE 23/09 @ 8.50am: 191 people are linking in to this story here and elsewhere. That’s one hell of a show of solidarity from all over the spectrum - many thanks to one and all.

Please let me or Sunny know if anybody has any more links and we’ll add them in.

I’ve seen that some people have put a copy of this list of bloggers on their own sites. I’m very happy for people to do this and encourage you to do so if you so wish. To make life a little easier, here’s some cut and paste code which I’ll also keep updated. Stick it in your blog post and the list will appear.

<a href="http://bsscworld.blogspot.com/2007/09/bloggerheads-is-down-and-heres.html">Curious Hamster</a>, <a href="http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1389">Pickled Politics</a>, <a href="http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/09/20/defend_tim_ireland_craig_murray.php">Harry’s Place</a>, <a href="http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2007/09/alisher-usmanov.html">Tim Worstall</a>, <a href="http://dizzythinks.net/2007/09/russian-billionaire-takes-down-blogs.html">Dizzy</a>, <a href="http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/09/in-support-of-tim-ireland-and-craig.html">Iain Dale</a>, <a href="http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/blog-censorship-in-the-uk/">Ten Percent</a>, <a href="http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/1891">Blairwatch</a>, <a href="http://nether-world.blogspot.com/2007/09/bloggerheads-and-other-top-blogs.html">Davide Simonetti</a>, <a href="http://earthquakecove.blogspot.com/2007/09/british-bloggers-silenced-by-uzbek.html">Earthquake Cove</a>, <a href="http://turbulentcleric.blogspot.com/2007/09/internet-freedom-in-question.html">Turbulent Cleric</a> (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), <a href="http://mikepower.net/not-a-blog/2007/9/20/avoid-upsetting-ugly-lardarsed-russians.html">Mike Power</a>, <a href="http://prisonersvoice.blogspot.com/2007/09/public-service-announcement.html">Jailhouse Lawyer</a>, <a href="http://suesam.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/blogs-down/">Suesam</a>, <a href="http://devilskitchen.me.uk/2007/09/this-is-brief-as-i-have-to-go-out-and.html">Devil’s Kitchen</a>, <a href="http://www.zeigermann.com/cartoonist/2007/09/20.html">The Cartoonist</a>, <a href="http://dsftyj.blogspot.com/2007/09/arsenal-his-ovum.html">Falco</a>, <a href="http://craigmurrayfriends.blogspot.com/2007/09/craig-murray-site-closed-by-fasthosts.html">Casualty Monitor</a>, <a href="http://www.bornagainmaganda.net/blog/?p=86">Forever Expat</a>, <a href="http://arseblog.com/columns/2007/09/20/usmanovs-lawyers-take-down-websites/">Arseblog</a>, <a href="http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2007/09/20/get-the-lawyers-in/">Drink-soaked Trots</a> (<a href="http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2007/09/21/alisher-usmanov-is-not-welcome-here/">and another</a>), <a href="http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2007/09/20/usmanovs-lawyers-try-to-silence-craig-murray/">Pitch Invasion</a>, <a href="http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2007/09/20/isps-censor-top-blogs/">Wonko’s World</a>, <a href="http://www.rollamonkey.com/blog/?p=43">Roll A Monkey</a>, <a href="http://carolinehunt.blogspot.com/2007/09/save-tim-ireland.html">Caroline Hunt</a>, <a href="http://gracchii.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogs-under-threat.html">Westminster Wisdom</a>, <a href="http://clickeral.blogspot.com/2007/09/cyber-censorship-closes-down.html">Chris K</a>, <a href="http://www.anorak.co.uk/politicians/176487.html">Anorak</a>, <a href="http://www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk/?p=797">Mediawatchwatch</a>, <a href="http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com/2007/09/now-russian-oligarchs-can-censor.html">Norfolk Blogger</a>, <a href="http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogger-solidarity-save-us-from-former.html">Chris Paul</a>, <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/381576.html">Indymedia</a> (with a list of Craig Murray’s articles that are currently unavailable), <a href="http://www.septicisle.info/2007/09/usmanov-watch-pyrrhic-victory.html">Obsolete</a>, <a href="http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1464">Tom Watson</a>, <a href="http://the-morningstar.co.uk/?p=1570">Cynical Chatter</a>, <a href="http://reactionarysnob.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogging-solidarity.html">Reactionary Snob</a>, <a href="http://mreugenides.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogging-and-free-speech.html">Mr Eugenides</a>, <a href="http://sinclairsmusings.blogspot.com/2007/09/legal-threats-to-blogosphere.html">Matthew Sinclair</a>, <a href="http://theselectsociety.com/blog/?p=235">The Select Society</a>, <a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2007/09/craig-murrays-website-and-bloggerheads.html">Liberal England</a>, <a href="http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/2007/09/bloggerheads_do.html">Davblog</a>, <a href="http://www.petergasston.co.uk/2007/09/usmanov-adds-bully-to-his-list-of-attributes">Peter Gasston</a> <a href="http://www.tppblog.com/2007/09/21/usmanov-shows-his-true-colours/">Pitch Perfect</a>, <a href="http://adelaidegreenporridgecafe.blogspot.com/2007/09/alisher-usmanov-ugly-individual-and.html">Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe</a>, <a href="http://lunartalks.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/iain-dale/">Lunartalks</a>, <a href="http://tygerland.net/2007/09/21/tim-bob-boris-and-craig-have-gone-down/">Tygerland</a>, <a href="http://thecrossedpond.com/?p=1494">The Crossed Pond</a>, <a href="http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/09/21/libel-alert/">Our Kingdom</a>, <a href="http://www.bigdaddymerk.co.uk/?p=836">Big Daddy Merk</a>, <a href="http://www.bigdaddymerk.co.uk/mailwatchnew/?p=2134">Daily Mail Watch</a>, <a href="http://pietersz.co.uk/2007/09/death-speech">Graeme’s</a>, <a href="http://sim-o.blogspot.com/2007/09/case-of-disappearing-blogs.html">Random Thoughts</a>, <a href="http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2007/09/21/on-stupid-libel-laws/">Nosemonkey</a>, <a href="http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/09/21/webhost-removes-bloggerheads-and-other-sites-after-legal-threats/">Matt Wardman</a>, <a href="http://polizeros.com/2007/09/21/brit-bloggers-take-on-billionaire-freedom-hater/">Politics in the Zeros</a>, <a href="http://loveandgarbage.livejournal.com/183365.html">Love and Garbage</a>, <a href="http://thehuntsman2007.blogspot.com/2007/09/oligarch-turns-bully-boy.html">The Huntsman</a>, <a href="http://partyreptile.blogspot.com/2007/09/tim-ireland-craig-murray.html">Conservative Party Reptile</a>, <a href="http://elleeseymour.com/2007/09/21/outrageous-shutting-down-of-british-blogs/">Ellee 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href="http://lobsterblogster.blogspot.com/2007/09/creepy-lawyers-pay-visit.html">Lobster Blogster</a>, <a href="http://ibanda.blogs.com/panchromatica/2007/09/links-for-2007-.html">Panchromatica</a> (251), <a href="http://backoffman.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/the-alisher-usmanov-affair/">Back off, man…</a>, <a href="http://danhardie.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/theres-only-one-alisher-usmanov/">Dan Hardie</a>, <a href="http://www.krusenstern.ch/p964.html">Krusenstern</a>, <a href="http://www.brendadada.net/usmanov/">Brendadada</a>, <a href="http://www.freace.de/artikel/200709/260907a.html">Freace</a>, <a href="http://www.boriswatch.com/2007/09/24/boriss-official-site-dons-tin-hat/">Boriswatch</a>, <a href="http://www.adrian.tk/2007/08/arseki-no-thanks.html">Fork Handles</a>, <a href="http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/09/25/this-is-where-blog-bullying-gets-you/">Chris Applegate</a>, <a href="http://glamorganshire.blogspot.com/2007/09/tycoon-pulling-plug-on-liberty-whatever.html">Christopher 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UPDATE 23/9 @8.20pm: Back, back, back! Ladies and gentlemen: Bob Piper!

UPDATE 24/9 @7.30am: Interim Statement from Clive Summerfield and Tim Ireland:

We’d like to thank you all for your support and let you all know just what the hell has been going on, but we beg your patience as we continue with the practical measures required before we can fully and confidently speak our minds about this matter.

Our immediate priority is the restoration of the websites involved; this has been greatly complicated by the sudden closure of the entire account (as opposed to, say, the suspension or closure of the two websites directly involved in the Usmanov dispute). This total - and totally unexpected - withdrawal of service requires us to restore many websites with differing individual circumstances and formats. The removal of email used for the majority of these accounts has also further complicated matters, as the most immediate form of communication between many of the parties involved is no longer available.

Bob Piper is already back on deck, and we expect Boris Johnson’s weblog to be up and running shortly. Special arrangements are being made for Craig Murray as we speak.

A full statement is likely to follow the restoration of Bloggerheads and/or The UK Today, as it is at one of these websites that we would wish to host a full statement and manage the expected response.

UPDATE 24/9 @ 8.30am: 224 people following and linking to the story. Many thanks to everyone - keep them coming and maintain the momentum.

UPDATE 24/9 @ 9.15am: You’ve got to love this from Matt Wardman:

Needless to say, all the offending articles that Mr Usmanov and Schillings have attempted to remove from public view are available in the Google Cache. And you can find them by using the search term “schillings“.

As far as I can tell Schillings’ own website does not feature in the top 100 results for either Google UK or google.com, except for the “sponsored” link which everyone ignores.

Perhaps they may need a Search Engine Optimisation Consultant as well as a Public Relations Consultant.

I can recommend a good one.

His name is Tim Ireland, and he runs a website called Bloggerheads when it has not been bullied off the air.

MSM COVERAGE: Media Guardian, including Boris’ reaction, Channel 4 News, The Times, Slate, Sunday Herald, More 4.

UPDATE 24/9 @ 10.30am: Thanks to Matthew Revell, here’s Mr Eugenides‘ excellent take on events on Wolverhampton Politics.

UPDATE 24/9 @ 5pm: Bit late with this, but via Arseblog in the comments:

If you should be browsing your visitor stats for your blog and you find any IP addresses in the range 217.33.207.160 to 217.33.207.191, those visitors are from Schillings, Mr Usmanov’s lawyers.