Al Jahom and the blogging community in the comments section for services to education ‘above and beyond’ the call of duty.

Dizzy – for and against hanging parliamentarians parliament.

LFAT for the year’s most disturbing revelation.

Denverthen for spotting a disgraceful poster.

Subrosa on German railway efficiency.

UPDATED: Because I’ve only just found this via Tim Worstall.…

Freethinking Economist on foul mouthed Libertarianism – some interesting comments.

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John Demetriou April 24, 2010 at 18:29

Come, Anna, when will you share the same magnanimity displayed by Devils Kitchen in praising an article emanating from the majestic and brilliant Boaty & D dot com?

No, my love, we do not come here hankering for ‘linky love’ or hits. But it genuinely seems strange whenever anyone, not just yourself, does a blog round up of the best blog articles, and we don’t appear.

Because, quite simply, Boaty & D are second to none.

I hope, no, expect this malaise to change in future months.

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Anna Raccoon April 24, 2010 at 18:40

John,
I find reading your opinion of me a very boring subject.
Maybe your readers like to hear the latest rant from you on the subject of Anna Raccoon – but my readers get quite enough of me during the week, so on Saturdays I give them a break and links to other posts which I have found interesting.
Perhaps when I stop getting e-mails from other bloggers saying ‘Boring & Demented are slagging you off again, here’s a link’ I might miss you so much I’ll call in to see if you are still writing. You never know, there might be something there that appeals to me.
Why are you so bothered who is linking to you? What difference does it make? – You don’t carry advertising any more than I do, so far as I remember.

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John Demetriou April 24, 2010 at 19:06

It doesn’t bother, it’s just that I like to see magnanimity and consistency.

You used to read us and comment, we fell out, then suddenly we don’t exist. So either you have decided to be churlish and cease reference to an excellent blog (ours) or you coincidentally decided that around the time we fell out, we stopped writing excellent stuff.

For what it’s worth, I think your place has improved remarkably over recent weeks, and the ’scoops’ are getting more interesting and unique, in so far as they are about stuff other people aren’t doing.

Hence my recent comment about your good work on the journo who misrepresented the libertarian candidate.

Maybe it’s time to bury the hatchet and stop all this nonsense. I haven’t said anything negative about you or written any articles hinting at you for ages (not that I am saying I never had a point about Country Club blogging, but still).

Shall we agree to a cessation of hostilities…?

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denverthen April 24, 2010 at 19:20

Thanks for the link Mrs R.

For the record, Ollie Cromwell (of Red Rag fame) took up the challenge of highlighting that hideous piece of Labour propaganda as well. I’d like to think that he, and, as I understand it now, the blogger Prodicus too, (among others I don’t know about) helped to force Labour to change their tune and kill that wicked campaign before it really started. That’s a minor victory, and not only the political sense by any means.

One last thing: if this is Gordon Brown’s idea of being more central and active in the general election campaign, expect the smears, lies and all out dirty tricks war to become truly appalling over the next two weeks. Brown Labour, with the likes of Whelan and co. pulling the strings, have decided that this is going to be a very, very ugly campaign. Plus ca change.

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Anna Raccoon April 24, 2010 at 20:02

I’m always happy to get along with anyone John,
You see I stay away from your blog because I really can’t be doing with all the hassle. I didn’t decide that you had stopped writing ‘excellent stuff’, I just stopped being interested in what you were writing at the time, and since you had never commented here, or blogrolled me, I couldn’t see the point in keeping you on my blogroll. You took great exception to that.
I could respond each and every time you start banging on about me, but…..
Life is too short – it is for me anyway, maybe you are younger and have more time to waste.
The crew that hang around this place like to have a laugh occasionally, they don’t swear, and they like a regular change of subject.
If you are of a like mind, do feel free to join in. You might enjoy it.
Oh, and ‘for ages’ – New definition? All of 17 days! Are you claiming this as some sort of record for you?

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John Demetriou April 24, 2010 at 21:22

Well, what can I say?

I want to make amends. No more attacks.

And forget about blogrolls etc, I don’t really care about any of that.

Good luck

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Anna Raccoon April 24, 2010 at 21:40

OK John, no problem with that.