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Former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has his book Murder in Samarkand released today on Amazon.
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…and if you can find him, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
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The Friday Thing, that mighty weekly email organ of import, full of meaty satirical goodness (plus some stuff by me) is no longer available via paid subscription but instead is now free, free, free. As is the vast back issue archive.
Get over there and sign up. You won’t regret it.
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The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze is out. I’m in it, writing about “astroturfing“.
Once you get past a few of the pieces’ sniggering schoolboy prurience with regard to ministers’ sex lives, particularly (backs against the walls, lads!) those of gay ministers, and what I thought was a innuendo-stuffed misrepresentation of the Ken Livingstone/Oliver Feingold fiasco, the book is actually a pretty good primer of the high crimes and misdemeanours committed since 1997.
Here.
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Greg Palast is the author of the mighty The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the journalist who broke the “Lobbygate” cash for access scandal in 1998.
He’s got a new book - Armed Madhouse - coming out soon and you can download MP3s of excerpts from it, read by both Palast and Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm comedy god Larry David.
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After a fallow spell, The Sharpener is back and reinvigorated with a new coat of paint and a refreshed roster of writers.
Go see.
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Yes.
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Out now. (Ta to the kind soul who nominated me this week.)
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I had expected something grander, but there was the Home Secretary, the M.P of Norwich South, at his desk, in a small office clearly visible through a glass front. Mr Clarke saw us, and got up from his desk and stepped outside his office, and greeted us, shaking our hands, and saying ‘Oh, so you are here already, do come in’. His handshake was warm. He did not ask me for proof of identification.
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In the slipstream of the ID cards bill, a very desirable item has come up for sale on eBay.
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In case you missed it, a new page of Get Your War On was posted a couple of weeks back.
And, Jon Ronson has both series of his totally brilliant radio show “Jon Ronson on…” available to download for free on his website. Definitely worth a listen - hilarious and heartbreaking all at the same time.
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Bit late with these (apologies to Gary) but over at Coffee and PC are a couple of good pieces on blogging. Here and here. I’m quoted in the articles but don’t let that put you off.
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My inaugural post is up at Comment is Free.
Anybody who’s read my stuff for any length of time will recognise some of it. Consider it a setting out of my stall…
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Jim Bliss has moved from London to Dublin and from Where There Were No Doors to The Quiet Road.
Get over there and say Hi.
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