The Wardman Wire

First of all an apology; I have been having family illness problems which have kept me thoroughly unavailable for the last day or so. Anyway, without further ado, we go into the roundup.

A lot of excellent posts this week, but no podcast as Chris Vallance is on holiday.

Next week the Britblog Roundup will be at Mr Eugenides’ Taverna. Nominations to britblog AT gmail DOT com, please.

Politics

• Guido introduces us to Ben Dover. Eileen Dover, Bill Dover, Wen Dover, Han Dover, Ima Hogg, E. Z. Money, Max Out, Bill Overdew, Lotta Dosh, Denny Grate, Dick Haid, Robin Ewall, and Ivor Wedge were unavailable for comment, but are doubtless on the payroll somewhere.
• The Very Public Sociologist goes on a comradely hunt for a plot (dramatic, capitalist or other) in Sex and the City. There is more of the latter than the former – on that point I agree.
• Bridget Fox thinks that Boris is going backwards on a BendyBus.
• Professor Norm reflects on the effects of Lotteries on Spending and Happiness.
• The Returning Officer of the Henley By-Election has a Blog. But – Please God – save us from any barcharts on it.
• Natalie Bennett – one of our Britblog Roundup team – celebrates the decriminalisation of prostitution in New Zealand.
• Elizbeth Chadwick moves from writing Historical Fiction to touring the venue for some of the greatest Historical Fictions of them all, as a perk of blogging.
• The F-Word defends single women.
• Andrew Ian Dodge puts a knife into political correctness and artificial “balance” in Canada.

Uncategorisable

• Over at Sometimes Funny is All I have it’s all about how there aren’t enough chocolate chunks in a Love Bar for your Love Bar party, and how you were nearly all saved from this heinous crime. You really have to read it.
• Over at The Capacious Handbag, children are objects of mystery.

Public Service

• Reynolds from Random Acts of Reality is on the receiving end of a violent attack.
• David Boyle of The Real Blog applauds police resistance to targets.

History, Architecture, Culture

• Rachel from North London gives us a history of the breast.
• Matt Sinclair explores family links in Kensington. Worth a look.
• Jonathon Calder of Liberal England protests a possible age banding system for Children’s Books; Political Manifestos presumably come under 18 or Fiction.
• Over at Oxoniensis there’s a search going on for missing Marxists.
• Phil Wilkinson writes about a an 18th century gravestone to Myrtilla, ‘Negro Slave to Mr Thomas Beauchamp of Nevis’.

Tyrants

• And – finally – Dave Cole has a graphic illustration of why Robert Mugabe is up a creek with no paddle anywhere in sight.

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