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You are commanded to put this guy on your favourites list. Don’t waste your morning working. Spend it with The Perry Bible Fellowship.

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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.

…is back after his takedown by Alisher Usmanov’s lawyers.

Stand by for fireworks.

A message from Dan Hardie, who really doesn’t deserve this:

I am not a Doctor, of Medicine or anything else. Nor have I ever claimed to be a Doctor. I have indeed completed a medical training course of two weeks’ duration. I do, in fact, research a particular commodities industry, and the journalist who just called me a Doctor in the pages of a national newspaper knows this because we first met when I brought his attention to a story about the price of building materials and the cost of the London Olympics. If he’d forgotten that, he needed to simply check with me as to my profession, or to the extent of my medical training, and he didn’t.

This is simply so that we don’t get Press Officers saying that I’m some nutter who has awarded himself a medical degree. No I’m not, and no I haven’t. I also note that I am entirely in agreement with Ministry of Defence policy, that serving soldiers should not speak to the Press without permission, and should not make political statements under any circumstances. Reservists- who include a number of MPs- may do both so long as they do so as citizens, without identifying themselves as soldiers or doing so whilst they are in uniform, or revealing sensitive or classified military information.

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Sad news.

I’ve never met anyone else like Rachel North; anyone less deserving of what she’s had to face in her life nor more deserving of the seeming bottomless reserves of strength she has.

Think about her today.

A big fat must.

In half an hour…

Mark Thomas: my life in serious organised crime.

Update: Mark’s on form today:

Consider Geoff Hoon, being defence secretary will be the crowning point of his career. As such it is unlikely that he will ever condemn the invasion of Iraq and his role in it. He is probably proud of his part and I reckon every now and again he must glimpse the flames of Baghdad on the telly, nudge his wife on the sofa and say, ”I did that. That was me.”

Tim W’s Britblog Roundup #101 and James H’s Saturday Blogfocus are both out.

John Brissenden is hosting the end of the year awards ceremony.

(Not safe for work or in the presence of small children who are learning to read).

Tim Worstall’s Britblog Roundup #94, Mr E’s Swearbloggers Roundup #9 and James Higham’s Blogfocus.

I received an email from the New Statesman’s online team asking for a link to their new website if they linked to me. (It’s very flattering but they should see my visitor stats - I am the ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ of British blogging.)

They have a list of blogs on the new site but I’m not on it so I don’t know if I’m going to get my link. Still, here’s the plug if only because all the content is now entirely free. First stops should be Shazia Mirza’s ace column and Mark Thomas’ back catalogue.

Tim Worstall’s Britblog Roundup #93, Mr Eugenides’ Swearblogger Roundup #8 and James Higham’s Blogfocus.

Tim W’s Britblog Roundup #92, Mr Eugenides’ Swearbloggers Roundup #7 and James Higham’s Saturday Blogfocus.

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Tim Worstall’s weekly Britblog Roundup and Mr E’s Swearbloggers Roundup.

Worstall’s weekly wonders of the web.

Tim Worstall’s two fat ladies.