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Yup, but no party is above this kind of thing. This is party politics in the 21st century my friend.

Yes but they're the party that I like the least, so no fair!

Steve Bell in the Graun today, I can't seem to embed the image.

If in Firefox: Right click on the image, select 'Copy image' and paste into the post.

We aren't the other parties doing anything to stop them?

A propos of what is this cartoon? I can't see an obvious anchor in today's news. It may well not relate to a specific item.

It relates to the Mail digging up a random story about Harriet Harman from decades ago and demanding she apologise for it.

Comment is free is balls 99% of the time, it seems. And I don't like that people don't recognize that it's essentially a blog post with the Guardian title.

Maybe I should write a comment is free about it...

Erm, it's a cartoon from the Guardian cartoonist.

The Harperson/NCCL/PIE thing is a classic example of the Mail throwing a dead cat on the table for their chums in the Tory party.

^ wasn't a comment about your post in particular, radar. Just a comment which was free for everyone and from any real relevance to anything.

Carpets and counting: Five of the web's oddest communities

No sign of LFGSS. Clearly we're slipping

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26343700

We're not odd, we are the future.

It's not a crude hatchet job. There's clearly frustration at Assange reneging on the book, but Hagan spent a lot of time with him and actually tells it fairly straight.

Instead of speculating based on a shittily selected set of bullets in BI, read the piece at LRB - http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

FWIW

Daniel Bergs book/Fifth Estate film paints a very similar picture of Mr Assange.

Overall the people involved in Wikileaks are largely irrelevant, we shouldn't get tied up in the "celebrity" type story there. It was merely an interface to get a lot of secrets out in the public, which it did. And we should focus on them. If we are to be interested in individuals, surely it should be those behind or victim of the disclosed atrocities not so much the people who ran a website which published information about it.

Yeah. Stick it all on earnings : Beer tax, fuel tax, council tax, NI, VAT, stamp duty. Add it all up and plonk it on income tax.

That's not what I said.

Many of those are based on different factors (how much alcohol you buy, how much fuel you use etc...)

But income tax and NI are both on earnings.

hot off the Londonist press,

cycle junctions to be redesigned, as posted here

russian troops massing
wonder how this one will go ?

russian troops massing
wonder how this one will go ?
Georgia, part II?

but ukraine has the eu and nato on their side

murderers or soldiers?

is there a difference

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26352967

Meanwhile in northern Ireland...yesterdays news today! Selective memories for the win.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/bus-shelter-wythenshawes-cornishway-built-6747327

Russian state news has a curious take on the pro-Russia gunmen who have taken over the parliament in Crimea - http://en.itar-tass.com/world/721154

More on Tymoshenko - http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Tymoshenko-is-one-tough-compromised-woman-247336481.html

Also - Edward Lucas makes a half-hearted attempt to defend his unpopular column on her in the DM - http://www.mediaite.com/online/daily-mail-writer-pens-the-worst-defense-ever-for-sexist-column/

Hello there. I am glad to have sparked a debate and sorry for any offence to the tender feelings of non-Daily Mail readers. I would note in my defence that the Daily Mail is a paper where femaile journalists are not allowed to wear trousers in the office because it offends the editor, and where a large chunk of each issue is taken up with sneering picture stories about women who have “let themselves go” (ie aged) or have had “work done” (ie tried to disguise its effects). You might ask why I would write for a paper with values like that. The answer is that it is a good way to reach a huge slice of middle England which does not read the Economist (let alone the National Journal). I will be happy to discuss YT’s politics at length if I am commissioned to do so by another outlet interested in a serious analysis.