The Wardman Wire

I’ve been a touch diverted the last 2 days with a family member in hospital, so apologies that this week’s Britblog is out on Monday. Here we go:

Love and Garbage has its own roundup of Wendy Alexander’s and various other donation scandals, and chronicles how regularity makes them seem smaller scandals than might once have been the case.

North of the Border, Richard Havers writes about the sound and echoes of The Last Trump:

Donald J Trump - reality TV star, real estate developer, entertainment mogul, casino owner, the hairdresser’s friend, and son of a Scottish woman from the Isle of Lewis. He’s also a man who, as almost everyone in Scotland knows, is planning to build the best golf course in the world right here in Scotland.

Meanwhile, Christopher White writes about Englishness (or talks about Michael Bywater writing about it), and The Whiskey Priest writes about somebody else’s failure to respect Britishness, and Mr Wonko looks askance at the EU.

Over in France someone is digging a hole, and West Papua came to Stroud.

But Peter Cranie (Green MEP for the North-West) hopes for the demise of the BNP:

The blogosphere is alive this morning with discussion of the demise of the BNP, which if it were to happen, would be very good news.

And - joy of joys - we have a new political podcast.

Back to Wales, and Peter Black asks what about the meaning of life. Since Peter is a member of the Welsh Assembly, that lets me plug my own new site to keep track of comment from all the blogging AMs in the Senedd (RSS feed).

Gary Andrews has the papers in mind and gets a shock when he finds one:

Then it struck me. I can’t remember the last time I deliberately ventured outside in search of the daily paper.

Worthy of much attention, and I can’t improve on his title, John Hirst talks some sense about large prisons: Titanic disaster on the horizon if prison building goes full steam ahead.

Madam Miaow asserts that “Ching, Chang, wally” is a racist rhyme, while Clairwil puts the Guardian under the microscope. And our own Natalie Bennett explains why negative politics isn’t always negative.

The F-Word reveals the … deep breath … ‘full-on gender indoctrination mind-control programme’, and Lady Bracknell is writing her Christmas Cards early. While Elizabeth Chadwick writes about her book that is just out.

The Ambulance Man reports on the Christmas wind down (NOT),and writes about what happens when an emergency caller reported a baby stopping breathing. Sticking with medics, Crippen Does A Macca Shocker, in which NHS Blog Doctor (was reported to have) suffered a road accident. Fortunately he had not been run over by an ambulance.

And to wrap-up, 200 Percenter visits a football match, Poons draws our attention to something creative that deserves a wide audience, and Newmania delivers a personal Christmas Message:

The nativity scene . Not the fixture it once was as there are so many foreigners at schools now it is deemed divisive and beginning to be replaced with celebrations of ‘The world of hope’, and other glutinous fatuities. I was once a suitably majestic King (or wise man ) carrying my gift of Gold to Mary, and Christ child . This transcendant being was perhaps inadequately represented by a hideous plastic doll ,swathed…in swaddling , whatever that might have been.Its meanings come later and I am sorry to hear yet another tradition is under attack.

And that … said Matt … is that. Thank-you for your patience.

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