Here’s a real weblog scoop.
I don’t usually write so much about UK politics, but Tom Watson has come across the extraordinary vanity of Michael Portillo’s official website. Beyond parody.
More essential reading from British Politics: “So my take on the current wave of good coverage of Mr Howard is that it is driven by a) The strange sight of Tory unity, b) The desperate desire of the media for an opposition, c) Cupboard love for the new alpha male in town. The policy differences still remain the same.”
Simon Waldman writes a fascinating account of what happened to him when he posted his discovery of an article on Hitler’s Haus Wachenfeld in a 1938 Homes and Gardens on his weblog.
“As a result of this casual browse through an old magazine, I have struck up a friendship with an amateur historian in Louisiana, been involved in a copyright tussle with the UK’s biggest magazine publisher, been branded a Nazi sympathiser, been written about in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune and the Jerusalem Post, and become the subject of a petition from 60 Holocaust scholars as well as protests from David Irving.”