Britblog Roundup # 68

Blair-Berlusconi: You can bring your friends
Giving Lo Scroccone a bit of Googlejuice

The second part of this will sadly be delayed for a week. Sorry: I’ve been unexpectedly called to the seaside. Thirty comments so far, with tons of stuff I’d forgotten, on the first part. We could really use a few more from anyone out there who hasn’t yet had a go. All in a good cause. Thanks.

I hesitate to add to the thousands of words already written about the Euston Manifesto. We had two good posts here yesterday, but the best so far is probably this one. Anyway, I hesitate essentially because I only read it today, and the damn thing is deathly dull, a collection of anodyne pronouncements, platitudes, and mostly a whole bunch of self-justifying shite that just about anything with a pulse could sign up to. Wet western wank, as the catchphrase goes.

So, I only stop by to pose one question I haven’t seen asked yet: could one be “pro” the Iraq War, situated vaguely on the political liberal-left, and yet firmly agin’ the Manifesto? Read More

The politics of American revivalism
…or the SWP history of the modern world

Galloway says murder of Blair would be justified

When there is no outside
Openness, authority and Wikipedianism

A clear conflict of interest
Guildford Tory gotcha

Why state funding for political parties is a good idea

Legalise pot, ban Pink Floyd
… and maybe find Harry a minor honour, like an Earldom or something, for services to badgers