Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

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Mock Pity the poor Children’s Secretary Ed Balls this week for he has been subjected to two web-based attacks.
First up is the flash game A Kick in the Balls. Inspired by reports that Jack Straw threatened to punch Brown’s protege, it’s a fantastically satisfying, if very simple, beat-’em-up (hat-tip: Shane Greer).

Following hot on its heels, […]

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Politics Home, the successor to my former employer 18 Doughty Street, launched today. The site is essentially a news aggregator, bringing together the disparate news stories from around the country to one site. Its unique selling point is the PHI100, a poll of one hundred political insiders on various topical issues. As I’m sure it […]

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April Fools (I think I’m surprising no-one with this, right?)
Other pranks being played around the web:

Gmail’s new “Custom Time” feature.

The BBC flies some penguins.

Lib Dem Voice reveals Labour’s new family and immigration policies.

Andy Mayer on the Electoral Commission’s new requirements.

Boris to do PMQs tomorrow: Guido Fawkes. Is it wrong that I really want this to […]

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The Byron Report, on children and the internet has come up with this piece of Venn diagram pseudo-analysis that looks like it’s come straight out the mind of Chris Morris, the genius behind Brass Eye and The Day Today:

It would seem that we now live in a truly post-satire age.
The front page also […]

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Following up on the earlier post about the BNP and their dominance of the political internet traffic, another interesting excerpt from the politics and the internet report by the Centre for Policy Studies:
"Worst of all, say the critics, is the style of debate that this new arena fosters. The blogs are good at trashing things […]

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Thank you BBC, thank you. Now if only you could allow me to download programmes in Firefox, all would be good in the world.
That is all.

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Following on from last week’s McCann based joke that never aired, here’s some that didn’t make it into tonight’s Vox Politix:
Top Ten lies about Heather Mills
5. In an ironic twist of fate, touching her fake leg cures leprosy.3. She kidnapped Madeleine McCann.2. Whilst appearing on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing and during a […]

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Rejected by 18 Doughty Street last night for the Top Ten:
Top Ten alternatives to smacking your children
2. Send them on holiday with the McCanns … to California.

Too soon?

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And here’s the link to my second appearance on 18 Doughty Street if you wish to catch it
Couple of follow up things:

I said that in 2005 the Lib Dems stood on a platform of legalising cannabis. They didn’t, although the manifesto is slightly ambiguous in its wording, certainly leaving it open for a Lib Dem […]

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