The Wardman Wire

Magazine

Last week a ran a trial of a post with the front pages of the national papers.

I have a new version, which is a far more elegant presentation and quite close to the effect I am looking for. I would welcome any comments. The aim is to have the front pages on view as soon after midnight as is practical.

There’s still some work to do on the technical side, but the appearance is roughly what I am aiming for.

Acknowledgements to Sky News for official permission to use their front page scans - I am grateful for such a response from a large organisation.

Iain Dale’s new political magazine, Total Politics, is to publish its first copy on June 23rd. Some of the content has already been leaked, with the Telegraph’s Three Line Whip revealing that in an interview for the magazine, Gordon Brown revealed that:
[H]e is not a good dancer, he would rather watch the new Indiana Jones [...]

Every 8 weeks or so I contribute tp the Britblog Roundup, which includes doing an interview on Radio 5 on the “Pods and Blogs” show. Chris Vallance, who runs the show, has tracked the locations of people interviewed.

Earlier this week I reported that some of the French are in a tizzy because their entry for the Eurovision song contest is in English. We have a new development.

Kevin Yuill has published an argument at Spiked Online in defence of the wide availability of firearms in the USA, attempting to argue from the statistics. I thought I would have a closer look at “Kevin Yuill on the Second Amendment“: