New news site from Tina Brown. Looks good, reads okay.

So they want to discourage smoking by making fag packets look better? Clever.

Which is fucking obscene. Not least because Scientology is, by any common definition of the words, both dangerous and a cult.

"The UK-based extremist evangelical Christian organisation have been enjoying increasing media coverage since they protested against the broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera. This site works as a resource listing links on their activities and what is sai

A Swedish library, realizing that books are not the only things being judged by their covers, will give visitors a different opportunity this weekend%u2014to borrow a Muslim, a lesbian, or a Dane.

The fact that I have a reasonable number of songs on my iPod in common with George Bush fills me with a strange dread.

I was about to link to Downing Street Says as a handy source of election news. Not so, it seems.

Grauniad election weblog.

Blogging the troubles in the Ukraine

The SSP are skint.

Standing ovations for mouthing vague platitudes, no discernable policies announced. They're finished, aren't they?

Newspaper editors and television producers are to be asked to avoid referring to such visible installations as sewage works and power stations on the grounds they are potential targets for terrorists.

Taxing the rich to provide for the poor? I'm sure that's familiar from somewhere. Oh yeah, Clause 4. The Lib Dem phrase 'substantial manpower change' reeks, though, of New Labour.