Blog Round Up

Thought I'd just mention a few blogs currently doing some excellent work. Iain Dale, is as usual, but has been more interested in football and political sex novels over the last couple of days. I guess it is the silly season after all. Over at Harry's Place there has been lively discussion of gay rights and free speech, the latter in relation to the holocaust exhibition that has gone up in Tehran (it looks like the in-favour-of-free-speech-government has decided to see if Europe can be provoked by something so they can go "ha ha! You don't care about free speech after all!" As far as I'm aware no embassies have been torched yet). Biased BBC is an odd one because often the posts are brilliant but the comments are a bit much for my tastes. But they are rightly getting upset about the BBC's latest attempt at self promotion. Guido Fawkes has an excellent debate on the right-to-buy issue, slaying some socialist myths in the process, as well as a totty report from Blair's holiday in the caribbean. Oliver Kamm is quieter than usual this summer, just posting some of his articles but there is a good one about Gunter Grass. I find the Devil's Kitchen brilliantly angry, with some excellent swearing, no matter what the subject, it seems. Samizdata today goes with the inverted, Alice in Wonderland story of the Gay Police Association's anti-homophobia advert being the subject of a hate crime investigation.

But today's winner is a fabulous, delectable fisking of George Monbiot at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (linked to in the title). It is detailed, angry, incredulous and long. It is well worth the effort. If only someone on the radio would do the same instead of hauling the lunatic up to debate rational issues in his weird, hyperbolic style all the time.