Britblog Roundup # 15

Yes, it’s that time again, as the colonial cousins slumber away their Memorial Day bbq and beer,  we in the Mother Nations have the treat that is the Britblog  Roundup, now in its fifteenth incarnation.  An attempt to bring you the best posts of the week from the bloggers of the four nations on these Isles. (About the only other thing we all do together is play rugby as the Lions once every four years and on the evidence of last week that’s not going all that well.) You can nominate posts by simply sending the url to britblog AT gmail DOT com.

First up is a nomination from Chicken Yoghurt (who has himself been oft nominated in the past) for the Curious Hamster. He does something very evil, very evil indeed. Takes the words of the Dear Leader and actually applies them to his own actions. No fair that, expecting politicians to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Murkee is signing from the same hymn sheet, starting off  with the leak in today’s papers that teh ID cards will cost 5 times what is currently stated. He goes on from there.

Clive Davis directs us to a photography blog, Image. Some quite wonderful stuff there.

Liberal England mulls over the Eurovision Song Contest and somehow manages to segue to Lt. Pigeon’s second piano player. Spooky.

Perfect.co.uk is also strongly opposed to the ID cards. In fact, even with all my wandering around blogs, I’ve not yet come across one that is actually putting the case for the scheme. Would anyone want to point me to a UK blog that tries to do so?

Talk Politics continues the ID card theme of today’s roundup (the actual bill was published last week which is why there is all this analysis). The National Identity Register will be recording a great deal more about you than you currently think. The full details in two complex posts here and here.

Politicalog notes that one of the flagship City Academies is itself failing.

England Expects has what is probably the only transcript that will ever see the light of day on the debate on the Motion of Censure for Sr. Barroso, master of all matters European. Quite shockingly it seems that European Hansard takes months to appear so there is no way of actually finding out what is said until months to late. Do read it, as it does show something of the way we are ruled.

Diamond Geezer has a terrific desciption of walking the Regent’s Canal. So  good you don’t actually have to do it yourself.

Not Proud of Britain has a question for, an appeal to, Gordon Brown. Certainly got my sympathy.

Liberty Cadre reports fro the start of the No Campaign on the EU Constitution.

A Message From Albia reports from a country strangely like, but worse, than Britain. Just scroll through.

Paul Coletti on immigration. We need more of it, much more of it, however old Enoch’s corpse might spin.

Through Irish Eyes is less than enamoured with hte British way of service. Quite bloody right, too.

Galilean Library has an interview about Newton and the mistake we make in treating the science and the alchemy separately, they make a seamless whole that has to be understood.

Scary Duck continues his retelling of a tortured choldhood. You could probably get his age to within a year from this episode, if you could remember the release date of the Queen single.

Now that the cycling season is back with us Blognor Regis is your guide to the intricacies of the sport (although I would have picked a title less likely to be redolent of sex amongst the unemployed for that post).

The Yorkshire Ranter finds himself in Norway debating the EU with Chinese telecoms engineers. (Yes, really.)   

Laban Tall digs a little deeper into the story of the Academy that’s failing...things are more complex than they at first seem.

In Actual Fact recalls the early days of learning German. Normally these sorts of problems come from people intentionally misleading you.

Late update, Norm of that Blog has more on the upcoming boycott of Israeli cricket.

And that’s it, this week’s Britblog Roundup. More next week, older versions can be found in the index under, amazingly, Britblog Roundup.