Britblog Roundup # 81

Welcome, welcome once again to that little listing of the blog posts you’ve nominated, the ones you think we ought to have seen but perhaps did not.

You can send in entries for next week’s to britblog AT gmail DOT com. Anything from a British or Irish blog, any subject, any viewpoint, just, as above, those things we all ought to pay more attention to.

First up this week has to be the wiki experiment by that odious little taxstealer, the Boy Milliband. Wonko’s World copied the whole thing moments before the dipsticks erased it, finally realising quite how silly they’d been. There was a time when the best minds of a generation went into governance: clearly this is no longer true. As Wonko says:

Produced without permission from Defra. My taxes paid for this complete cock-up and I intend to get my money’s worth.

Read it, laugh, then weep for the State of the Nation.

Martin Kelly on that 12 year old  in Pakistan Rather double standards and there are some Scottish politicians with a lot of explaining to do.

Doctor This explains another of the things wrong with the NHS. Yes, it is the way it’s organized, no, it isn’t that there isn’t enough money.

Adloyada on the joys of BT Broadband. A quite hilarious description of what happens when a Stalinist monopoly attempts, not very successfully, to be anything other than that.

Peter Black AM with a very funny little post about the effect of globalization on knickers. That the complainant is called Cato would amuse a certain think tank as well.

John Widdon has some career advice for Andrew Lloyd Webber: and a fascinating outline for a musical. I say give it a try: couldn’t be worse than Cats (could anything?)

Rafael Behr has cleaned the baby vomit off his keyboard for long enough to give us the essential guide to the speeches of the conference season.

Liberal England with the correct response to child obesity (well, the correct response for liberals. Personally, simply ban central heating, that’ll cure it.)

The Great Leader proposing eugenics? Say it isn’t so! Love and Liberty and The Liberal Dissenter are on the case. This does seem to be the one issue upon which even his own supporters realise he’s gone gaga.

As an example of the vile and insane laws that he has already had passed, the photos of the mass lone protest in Parliament Square. Alas I couldn’t be there but my poster would have read "I’ve been oppressed by a better class of bastard than you Blair".

Changing the subject entirely, The Thames on energy saving lightbulbs. I’m afraid I’ll have to differ slightly, as regular readers will know, this blog is subsidized by my position in the international scandium oligopoly which means that the only possible change for the ethical blogger is to metal halide bulbs, "Do It For Timmy" being the rallying cry.

Jonny Void has some inside information on the Israeli performance in the recent fighting. The usual Air Force blather about air power finally being able to win a war alone.

EU Referendum with  yet another example of how we no longer really live in a democracy.

Chris Dolley on village cricket. No, he wasn’t asked to play again.

My London Your London with a review of In Extremis. Yes, see it seems to be the answer.

Philobiblon on why obesity is a social problem, not just a personal one. (Some naughty editorial here. It may even be a social problem but that doesn’t make it a societal one nor one amenable to Government intervention. But then I would say that.)

The feminists over at Mind the Gap provide the results of their discussion on feminism and LGBT issues.

Pandemian with a perfect recitation of what happened at the IT training day. Yes fellow bloggers, take notes, this is marvellous.

Stephen Tall on what politicians are actually for. Surprisingly, given that he is one, it appears they’re not there to give the executioner some practice on weights for the long drop.

Gnotalex uncovers a lovely litte website over at Dodgeblogium. Awful baby names.

The Whiskey Priest on the possible ban on violent pornography. Makes a lot of sense in that last line.

Scotton Pinkney. You’ll need to scroll around a few posts to get the flavour. England is as England was it appears.

Freemania on what a Labour renewal might look like. The first comment has a, shall we say, rather leftish critique.

And that’s it for this week, same time, same place next. Until then:

Toodle Pip!

Update: Late entrants and ones I messed.

Paul Colletti on Artur Boruc.

Redemption Blues on changes to the language.

The Millennium Elephant on Byers as a Stealth Tory.

LibertyCat on a Tory value to be reclaimed.