The Wardman Wire

When I read the first three paragraphs of this post by Lonergrrl, highlighted by Natalie in this week’s Britblog Roundup:

Stop telling me the body is nothing more than a ‘text’, merely ‘discursive’, nothing concrete, but fragmented, ‘engaged in performativity’.

What is that all about?
How is that helping?
What revolutionary purpose does it serve?

These insights of yours are purported to be groundbreaking, radical, cutting edge, liberating because they break down

‘binaries’,
‘dichotomies’,
‘totalities’,
all ‘essential’ and ‘universal’ notions.

I decided that it was an ancient manuscript written in some foreign language, that would perhaps be understandable after I purchased a copy of the Gale Sociology Thesaurus.

I have written several posts about a Greenpeace campaign - hosted on their website - which is being used to send mass emails to Members of the European Parliament who disagree with Greenpeace policy.

This morning I posted the following note into the climate change forum on the Greenpeace website, after my previous comment on the blog post about the campaign did not appear:

These are three things you can do that may help me hate your blog.

I’ve been planning to write an article about the latest attempt to hide MPs correspondence , but this got in the way while I was looking for material.

Simon Hughes made a fantastic contribution to defeat David Maclean’s Private Member’s Bill a few weeks ago - I listened to the debate on BBC Parliament at the time.

But, when I started digging around on Simon Hughes’ website, I ran up against the search facility.

Oh dear. It’s mischevious to poke fun at superannuated MPs, but I just can’t stop myself…

Here’s Tony Benn talking about the Internet

I wanted to highlight that Christina McKelvie, SNP Candidate for Hamilton South, has followed up my article about her blog.

Hi,
I wanted to just add the link but got the entire doc. Blogging is new to me so we learn by experience………… so there will not be any more large docs dumped on the blog. Cheers [...]