Ten years of blogging: 2009

I’d forgotten the BNP’s proposed policy to incarcerate all single mothers under 21. Seems this was a month for barking ideas.

Chris Grayling compared Britain to The Wire. Disturbingly, it looks like my parallels between David Cameron and Tommy Carcetti isn’t too wrong.

Anton ‘Steven Baxter’ Vowl made a good point about the misuse of the word ‘libertarian’, which prompted a visit in the comments from Neil ‘complete fruitbat’ Craig.

I wrote about why I don’t like elected mayors here, then a week or so later endorsed a candidate for Mayor of Bedford. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. He did get elected, though.

In a break from politics, I wrote about Doctor Who, and attempted to explain why any attempt to depict the Time War on screen would fail. In other media related news, watching Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus got me thinking about bad movies.

I poked the English nationalist anthill. Silly me.

I wonder if a story now where a celebrity chef boasted about running cyclists off the road would still allow him to keep his TV series?

This comments policy still applies, by the way.

Oh poor naive old me, thinking that party conference was where the direction of the Liberal Democrats was decided.

Tim Ireland did what people keep saying that bloggers ought to do – researching and exposing how the media is manipulated and then manipulates us – and got horribly smeared as a result.

I discovered the link between generating SFnal ideas and creating Labour Party policy, and then Gordon Brown decided that going back to the past was a better idea.

The first sprouts of Tory localism policy started to emerge, and I wasn’t very impressed – and neither were the voters when they were finally given a say on them.

After a couple of years off, I took another crack at NaNoWriMo and succeeded.

Amusing.

For reasons I still can’t adequately explain, I looked at David Icke’s website.

As the year wound to an end, so my blogging frequency dropped, but I did discover that someone had once recorded a response song to Barry McGuire’s ‘Eve Of Destruction’.

And that was 2009 – sparse posting to start, interrupted by a sudden flurry of ‘I’m going to be a proper blogger again’, returning to sparseness at the end.

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