Chum Jon appears to be writing for The Party. This should be interesting to watch over the next few years.

Mad collection of quotes from America's craziest president. "The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?…I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes."

A series of fairly unemotional arguments against investing in nuclear power plants.

This is the site which people can send leaked documents to without fear of lawyers serving them writs. They provide an invaluable service. Go throw them a fiver or something.

Sod the "first YouTube / Facebook / Twitter election" nonsense. This could be the first Lolcats election. Much more relevant to the future of democracy.

Discarding the journalist hyperbole and cynicism this does touch on a couple of useful points - questions about how representative the Iranian Twitter users are and implications for broadcasting controversial opinions in a public space, though I'd argue this is no different to participating in a protest march where you know you'll be photographed and investigated. But the Iranian situation is massively complicated which is why I've been reticent to comment on it.

Proof, if it was needed, that the results of US presidential elections has a direct impact on UK government policy.

Shocking stuff, but while this is an extreme case I do think this is part of the problem with political campaigning where election victory is all must be achieved by all means necessary. The Lib Dems cen be as bad as the rest at this and it's a big shame.

To my surprise and disappointment I feel the need to be a bit of a militant feminist these days. Surely we should be over this shit already? I mean, some of this is frankly embarrassing.

Obviously not something I'll be following long term but it'll be interesting to see what they do with this. Looks promising.

Great Kenyan article on something that's been niggling me for a while. Obama is 50% white / 50% black, so why is he always called a black man?

Mixed feelings about this. Martin can be a pillock sometimes but he's the best councilor I've ever come across. That said, he probably screwed up here.