Category: blognotes

  • Content warning: cancer, medical treatment (not all of which is positive) I have absolutely no intention what those of us of a certain age would call “doing a John Diamond“. But it’s been an eventful month so I thought I’d better briefly update the situation. I started my cancer treatment on 3 January. It did…

    Leukemia Update
  • Content warning: cancer, blood (not graphic) So lets get this out of the way as things are starting to happen quite fast: I have cancer. To be precise, I have Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. That isn’t quite as scary as it sounds. In fact, when it comes to rolling on the Random Cancer Table, I got…

    Health update
  • Parliament, The Telegraph and Jo Swinson. Gosh! Thanks a lot. I wasn’t expecting that at all. Obviously, I dedicate the awards to Jo herself and would like to use this opportunity to say fuck you Daily Telegraph (who at least respond to complaints promptly) and up your arse BBC (who don’t). Congratulations too to Jo…

  • Stephen Tall has issued these questions for Lib Dem bloggers to answer over the weekend and so I thought I’d try to bash out my responses before dinner (UPDATE: not quite): What are the greatest successes of the Lib Dem blogosphere? Lib Dem Blogs remains a very powerful spine, although I personally find it is…

  • It’s that time of the year for the Total Politics Best Blog Poll again and this year it is being supported by both Lib Dem Voice and LabourList. As with last year, Tim Ireland is organising a boycott and as with last year I disagree. Nonetheless, I totally accept that the annual Dale blog poll…