Blogroll Update!

I am inept at flagposting such things. I would hope that it is unnecessary. But I have updated it several times recently, so here's the lowdon.

There is Ministry of Truth a daily must read by a seriously Good Egg, in my opinion. I can honestly say I hope I never get a good fisking or expose by this person. And yes, some posts are long - whaddya expect? A two line daily mail op-ed? Lazy buggers.....

Also, NewerLabour who I exposed as being the Regions Officer for the Young Fabians recently. Another certified Good Egg.

Then there is Skipper who is a politics academic and always provides concise yet incisive discourse on matters of political relevance. I can't praise the quality of this site highly enough, for essentially doing what the BBC proffesses to do, only better.

And there is Parburypolitca who has appeared several times on Doughty St, and is well worth a check.

Finally, I have visited this site quite a few times, and always intend to add it to my bookmarks so I can peep it daily and add a link here for your consumption, but I always fail to do so. Please consider that situation rectified, as I present Political Penguin.


The reason for this post is that I've noticed a few problems with some of my links, which I am now trying to resolve. Please post comments regarding the problem if any of the links in the links bar fail to work for you. "I'm right on top of it," as they say.

One of Those Days...

Today was one of those days were I thought I had achieved a lot until I assessed what tangible things had happened, and then I realised that I hadn't actually achieved all that much. I bloody hate those days.

I woke up with a horrible back spasm and after quaffing plenty ibuprofen, applying heat patches and contacting work, I went to sleep in the hope of waking up later feeling better. I did, mildly. Until I checked my emails and found 50 of the suckers waiting for me. Cue two hours spent answering emails of importance, then realising the buggers had replied, then spending another half hour replying to those. I wouldn't mind this at all, except that most were of the contact-introducing and arranging-future-events variety, so it was mostly admin. I hate admin. With a passion.

Then I visited the sites of Bob Piper and Ministry of Truth to catch up with the so-called "storm" they have been in over the weekend. I posted a few sensible things.

Then I phoned a bunch of people on,ly to find out that they were no longer the people I had to speak to. Cue failed attempts to get contacts for people I should be speaking to. Cue lots of cursing every time I hung up.

Then I sent a few emails which did actually progress some of the projects I am working on.

All in all, a pretty pointless day, then. And all of this pointlessness precluded me posting anything of worth on here.