A very nice piece by Robert Sharp on the ethics around cannabis that are rarely discussed:

[I]t suffices to say that the sinister underworld elements who supply our green, represent a challenge to anyone who considers themselves socially liberal. What is to be done? With legalisation still a generation away, progressives need to take matters into their own hands. They need to foster a new drug buying culture, and put more effort into the act of acquiring their drugs. In short, they need to buy Fair Trade Weed.

Go read the rest

Won’t someone give the argument for 42 days internment some soup or something? It’s looking very sick. I’m worried it won’t last much longer. When you look at the calibre of some its carers, no wonder it’s looking neglected.

Take Home Secretary ‘Jacqui’ Smith for instance, I’m not sure I’d trust her with a goldfish let alone national security. This following is an exchange from yesterday’s the debate on the Counter-Terrorism Bill. It’s also a welcome example of the Opposition doing some, you know, actual opposing.

One of the reasons Smith wants an extension to internment powers is because terrorists encrypt data on their computers which can take time to decrypt…

Jacqui Smith: My hon. Friend has considerable expertise in information technology, and she is right of course—not just in the examples that I have given but in other ways—to say that technology is becoming more sophisticated. Notwithstanding the changes that we have made to the law to help investigators to crack encrypted information, it is becoming more complex, and terrorists are learning lessons and using that technology.

David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) (Con): To deal with this problem, in 2000, a criminal offence of withholding passwords and encryption keys to hard drives was passed into law. The offence of using such things for terrorism has been increased recently. How often has that offence been used in terrorist cases?

Jacqui Smith: I do not know the answer to that question, but I will make sure that the right hon. Gentleman gets a response. However, what I was saying was that notwithstanding that change in the law, my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, South (Margaret Moran) was making an important point about the development of technology. What we know about terrorists and their plots is that they are increasingly making use of those developments in technology.

David Davis: I thank the right hon. Lady for giving way a second time. Her argument is that the terrorists are using more and more complex techniques, which are difficult for the state to deal with, yet she cannot tell us whether the state has used the proper legal apparatus and criminal charges to overcome the problem. If she cannot make that judgment, how on earth can she judge how many days she needs?

Jacqui Smith: I am sorry that I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman again.

Not as sorry as she’s going to be, one hopes. Still, with a level of debating skills like that you can see how she’s risen as far as she has. Sleep easier, Britain. Get well soon, 42 days. You’re in the best hands.

(Via Simon Carr)

Right here (page 7):

Managing Protest around Parliament: The Government proposes the repeal of sections 132-138 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Repeal of these sections will remove the requirement to give notice of demonstrations in the designated area around Parliament. It will also remove the offence for such demonstrations to be held without the authorisation of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner;

According to the Analysis of Consultations Managing Protest around Parliament…

The Government received 512 responses during the 12 week consultation period. Representations were received from 25 campaign groups, from six MPs and two Peers, from a number of other interested stakeholders including the Metropolitan Police Service,the Greater London Authority,Westminster City Council and the Law Society of Scotland. However, most responses – over 90 percent – were received from members of the public.

The vast majority of responses – over 95 percent – either explicitly or implicitly called for the straight repeal of sections 132 to 138 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCAP), rejecting arguments that a distinct framework for managing protest around Parliament could be justified on security grounds, or on grounds that the business of Parliament needed special protection, or by a need to safeguard wider public enjoyment of the space.

We’ll pass over the fact they couldn’t even get the acronym of their own bloody law right.

Good to see the police exercising their democratic right:

An estimated 18,500 police officers are marching in central London in a protest over pay.

One question, however: will their colleagues policing the march be underestimating the number attending as is traditional on such occasions?

In case you’d forgotten, the Home Office is holding a public consultation into the right to protest outside Parliament as curtailed by the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. You’ve only got until January 17 to make yourself heard so get on with it.

The consultation document (PDF, 31 pages) makes for interesting reading. As Beau Bo D’Or has discovered, Mark Thomas‘ (and everyone else’s) Mass Lone Protests haven’t gone unnoticed…

Click here for more information.

Specially written carols, a minute’s noise and The Airing of Grievances.

I’m going to be there, with bells on.

Defender of freedom and all round good egg Henry Porter has now got his own website collecting his columns and articles. Some excellent stuff to be found in the archives.

UPDATE: Porter interviewed by Peter Tatchell.

Remember a few weeks ago when lawyers acting for Uzbek billionaire and potential Arsenal buyer, Alisher Usmanov, had Craig’s Murray’s, Tim Ireland’s, Boris Johnson’s and a bunch of others’ websites taken down? And do you remember the wave of publicity those actions received?

Well, they’re at it again, and this time it’s the mighty Indymedia on the receiving and of the threats.

Indymedia UK has been issued with a takedown notice [10th of September & 21st of September] from lawyers acting for Alisher Usmanov. The notice served to Indymedia charged Indymedia with publishing allegedly libellous accusations about Usmanov, one of the richest men in Russia, recently linked to a possible hostile takeover of Arsenal FC.

Obsolete says it best:

This only makes Usmanov’s charm offensive this week, involving the flying via private jet of at least 9 British journalists to his offices in Moscow, then putting them up in a five star hotel all the more shallow. He says he’s not a vindictive man and that some of Murray’s allegations are beneath his dignity to respond to, yet his lackey of legal brown-nosing sycophants are still trying to remove all mentions and republishing of Murray’s original post, while still failing to respond either to Murray’s request for them to sue him or to even explain how inaccurate his allegations are, apart from their completely untrue argument that Usmanov was pardoned by Gorbachev.

If Usmanov and Schillings want to keep digging this hole, I for one don’t mind shovelling in the dirt on top of them. Usmanov has the money and the lawyers to fight libel cases from here to judgement day. There can be only one reason he doesn’t want to - just like why Gordon Brown doesn’t want to fight an election - because he doesn’t think he can win on a level playing field.

Spread the word.

The list of people who declared their support when Alisher Usmanov’s lawyers, Schillings, managed to take down Craig Murray’s, Boris Johnson’s, Tim Ireland’s and Bob Piper’s blogs has now moved here.

The original post has served its purpose and only became the information hub by accident - it was only really meant to be a heads-up message - but it was very heartening to see so much support become linked to it. It’s right now however that the list be based somewhere else. Many thanks to everyone who blogged, linked, emailed and slashdotted while the list was here. It was quite the exciting and busy few days.

Anybody who has blogged in support about all this and hasn’t yet made the list (we’re watching Google Blogsearch as well) can let me, Tim Ireland (bloggerheads DOT com AT googlemail DOT com) or Aaron (tyger AT tygerland DOT net) know and we’ll see that you’re added. Ditto for anybody who hasn’t yet blogged and would like to - your views, ideas and support would be extremely welcome.

Oh, dear…

Tonight, during the Saryusz-Wolski report “Towards a common European foreign policy on energy” the Euro realist MEP Tom Wise will use parliamentary privilege to spell out the allegations against Alisher Usmanov. He has been talking to Craig Murray to ensure that the allegations are accurate and to the point.

Looks like Usmanov’s lawyers, Schillings, might want to review their strategy:

Laura Tyler, of Schillings, said they did not intend to sue Murray directly because they did not want to give him a platform to express his views.

Instead, hundred of thousands of people now know who Alisher Usmanov is, and have formed their own judgement of him in the absence of any facts or defence from Schillings. Good work.

UPDATE: MP3 of Tom Wise making his statement. Go listen - it’s dynamite. (Many thanks to Matthias at Swiss Metablog).

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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 Seymour</a>, <a href="http://sabretache.blogspot.com/2007/09/alisher-usmanov-threatens-isps.html">Sabretache</a>, <a href="http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2007/09/boris-johnsons-web-site.html">Not A Sheep</a>, <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2007/09/21.html#a890">Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion</a>, <a href="http://profnewport.blogspot.com/2007/09/russian-oligarchs-censorship-and.html">The People’s Republic Of Newport</a>, <a href="http://skorohnomis.blogspot.com/2007/09/alisher-usmanov.html">Life, the Universe & Everything</a>, <a href="http://arsenalfootballnews.blogspot.com/2007/09/craig-murrays-article-one-censored-by.html">Arsenal Transfer Rumour Mill</a>, <a href="http://www.tomgriffin.org/the_green_ribbon/2007/09/muzzling-britai.html">The Green Ribbon</a>, <a href="http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2007/09/bringing-uzbeki.html">Blood & Treasure</a>, <a href="http://lastditch.typepad.com/lastditch/2007/09/wonkos-world-bl.html">The Last Ditch</a>, 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Kateshomeblog</a>, <a href="http://www.writeslikeshetalks.com/2007/09/24/uk-blogs-come-tumbling-down-in-libel-action/">Writes Like She Talks</a>, <a href="http://extra-extra.blogspot.com/2007/09/blogosphere-shouts-im-spartacus.html">Extra! Extra!</a>, <a href="http://committeetoprotectbloggers.org/2007/09/24/uk-former-diplomats-blog-host-shuts-him-down/">Committee To Protect Bloggers</a>, <a href="http://libertysrequiem.blogspot.com/2007/09/sin-of-silence.html">Liberty’s Requiem</a>, <a href="http://amsam.org/2007/09/craig-murray-website-taken-down.html">American Samizdat</a>, <a href="http://thethunderdragon.blogspot.com/2007/09/usanov-schillings-and-schadenfreude.html">The Thunder Dragon</a>, <a href="http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/09/threat-of-libel.html">Cybersoc</a>, <a href="http://successbydesignltd.blogspot.com/2007/09/usmanov.html">Achievable Life</a>, <a href="http://www.paperholic.com/2007/09/24/usmanow-vs-murray-oder-hoppla-die-sphere/">Paperholic</a>, <a href="http://www.creative-i.info/?p=114">Creative-i</a>, <a href="http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2007/09/usmanov-in-common-with-rest-of.html">Raedwald</a>, <a href="http://nobodysfriend.blogspot.com/2007/09/clerihew.html">Nobody’s Friend</a>, <a 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.

Simon Hoggart:

[I]t was left to the much-derided Ming Campbell to make the best intervention about the prime minister’s statement on security. “Consensus,” he said, “cannot be achieved at the cost of principle … of course the public has a right to security, but that includes security from the power of the state.”

There’s no answer to that, and he didn’t get one.

I wish I’d written this.