In a section of former UK Prime Ministerial media adviser Alastair Campbell’s soon to be published diaries, Campbell discusses Cherie Blair’s alleged use of a pendant worn to ward off evil spirits, reports Richard Farmer.
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Guy Rundle: Blair cheers on the barmy army
Australia’s brief rally in that pointless nineteenth-century game — the Afghan war, not the Ashes though the latter term fits — has made Tim Blair all excited.
Guy Rundle: Friday drive-bys: breaching Godwin’s law
Rundle talks Blair and Bolt breaking Godwin’s law, coverage of the Xinjiang riots and Annabel Crabb beating out Jacko.
Guy Rundle: Tim Blair’s premature evaluation problem
Tim Blair gets too excited, too early over Utegate, and evaluates all over himself.
Writers’ fest does blogging. Your thoughts?
To blog or not to blog? That was just one of the questions posed by moderator Rachel Hills to a panel of bloggers, journalists and one burnt-out ex-journalist at a Sydney Writers’ Festival gig on Sunday.
Deconstructing Blair’s law
Daily Telegraph Opinion Editor Tim Blair is very proud of his eponymous “law”, which essentially says all Leftists are confused idiots who mindlessly support idiotic causes.
Pauline Hanson: it was not me. I’m suing
“I’ve had enough. The truth is that is not me in those photos.” Pauline Hanson insists that the celebrated weekend nudes were not her, writes Jonathan Green.
Blogwatch: death of The Bulletin
The Bulletin looks like something you wouldn’t choose to pick up in the dentist’s waiting room and other matters. What bloggers are saying about the magazine’s fate.
Our athletes suck. Good thing they don’t sing
Did not qualify. Last. Sixth. Did not qualify. Did not qualify. Last. Fifteenth. More than $580,000 was spent specifically for the lead up to the Osaka meet which was to allow “medal-potential athletes” to prepare. It’s no wonder the SBS commentary team was totally lost for words.
The Daily Tele‘s use of jihadist sources…hot off the press release
Where did the Daily Tele’s Opinion Editor Tim Blair source a recent Islamist article? A press release? asks Irfan Yusuf.
