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  • Whisper it, it’s unfashionable, but political parties still need members

    Chandila Fernando, to his credit, is at least campaigning for some radical ideas in his campaign for Lib Dem President. He wants the Lib Dems to “become the first mainstream political party to move away from the tired concept of card-carrying membership” replacing it with “a system of registered supporters.” Fernando’s website has currently been…

  • Sarah Palin’s Polar Bear Stew

    There really is only one response to this story about Sarah Palin trying to get Polar Bears’ endangered species status declassified…

  • Sarah Palin: are the democrats worried?

    That’s Iain Dale’s rather improbable analysis, over a series of increasingly aerated posts this weekend, based on the fact that, erm, a lot of people on the left are talking about her surprise nomination in its immediate aftermath. Who’dathunkit? The most surprising political event in months has happened and people are actually talking about it?…

  • Ah, so that’s what they mean by “MyBO”…

    If you turned up to give a speech, and 80,000 people started waving placards at you with the word “CHANGE” on them – wouldn’t you think about possibly putting on a different shirt?

  • John McCain botches his saving throw

    The McCain camp is in full scale meltdown after making jibes at “the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd” (okay, I exaggerate slightly). This has lead to Wired running this rather imaginitive and amusing thread. Truth to tell, it is an odd target of Team McCain considering the physical resemblance of their candidate: moar funny pictures