Benjamin Gray: Archive

I shall be the belle of the Ball. Or something like that.

May 1st

Have now just read the BBC site on #swineflu and think this is yet another case of irresponsible...

May 1st

Mmm… Black Tie.

May 1st

#followfriday @conhome @gift_of_the_fab @hurryupharry @toadmeister @mrpower @torybear

May 1st

Hmm… should probably write something profound and impressive since I’ve been tagged on...

May 1st

The new Blood Libel http://tinyurl.com/dhkxps

May 1st

Thanks for the #followfriday mention @electiontime @themelis_cuiper

May 1st

listening to “Sober - Pink” ♫ http://blip.fm/~5c3nk

May 1st

http://twitpic.com/4bp9l - View of the Day - Takayama, Japan 2008

May 1st

Hmm… digging around for a photo of the day.

May 1st

http://bit.ly/G2zI8 Huffpost - “The Human Rights Council must be dissolved.”

Apr 30th

Ben Clarke has never set foot in Sandhurst and should stop bigging himself up about it. It’s...

Apr 30th

I’ve fixed the contact form on the site. You can now all send me emails again....

Apr 30th

For all the talk of “being Athens to Rome”, the former had very little influence on the...

Apr 30th

New Post: Guest Blogging http://tinyurl.com/cmed28

Apr 30th

http://twitpic.com/49kr3 - View of the Day

Apr 30th

“The occupation will end only if [Israelis] are convinced that they can survive its...

Apr 29th

RT @Electiontime: Labour Home: Brown has to go, and soon. http://tinyurl.com/c6rovn

Apr 29th

RT @ConHome: Tories and Lib Dems defeat Government on settlement rights for Gurkhas...

Apr 29th

Guest Blogging

Apr 29th

http://twitpic.com/47eng - Scene of the Day

Apr 29th

http://twitpic.com/47b0q - My cat has become a roadblock

Apr 29th

A hidden adnavtage to hayfever: you no longer need an alarm clock.

Apr 29th

After a brief purge, I now have more followers than people I follow. I must be writing something...

Apr 28th

RT @bengoldacre: EVERYONE please retweet - “cc all your emails to# Jacqui Smith” Day...

Apr 28th

RT @graemearcher Great idea RT @DailyReferendum: Conservative bloggers get-together (piss-up)....

Apr 28th

Just registered for the 2010 Marathon: unsure whether this is one of those positive life...

Apr 27th

Andrew Sullivan doing very well on #newsnight @dailydish

Apr 27th

RT @ConHome: Stephen Byers attacks Brown-Darling on 50p http://is.gd/uVx2

Apr 27th

After my finals I intend to finally get round to podcasting. Anyone want to join in?

Apr 27th

New strategy in Global War on Terror: laugh at them. Not as silly as it sounds. http://tr.im/jPuI

Apr 27th

Is the cascade of support beginning? http://tr.im/jOrP

Apr 27th

New Post: Analogous to Taxation http://tinyurl.com/c4zk9c

Apr 27th

New Post: Expenses Are Not Rocket Science http://tinyurl.com/ckovvl

Apr 27th

Analogous to Taxation

Apr 27th

A good result in South Africa. Hopefully a stronger opposition will emerge. http://tr.im/jNNQ

Apr 27th

I don’t like that SEO is forcing me to ditch witty headlines.

Apr 27th

Expenses Are Not Rocket Science

Apr 27th

You boycott, I study http://viigo.im/p36

Apr 27th

A law without force? http://viigo.im/p39

Apr 27th

Talk is good but it’s not the only good http://viigo.im/p35

Apr 27th

The term “word poverty” describes the very phenomenon it seeks to condemn.

Apr 27th

RT @ConHome: The Spectator’s CoffeeHouse has a new debt clock that you can put on your...

Apr 26th

Blogs: the new black? http://tr.im/jLu0

Apr 26th

RT @prospect_uk:Prospect’s James Crabtree discusses the concept of ‘Red Tories’ on...

Apr 26th

I’ve got a simpler equation @jakcodd. Labour’s Budget = Profligacy = Penury

Apr 26th

Let’s beat labour in the Twitter wars. Join http://twibes.com/tories

Apr 26th

RT @gift_of_the_fab: Calm down dear, it’s own a smear email http://ff.im/2nukP

Apr 26th

Pickles story takes the biscuit http://viigo.im/oJz

Apr 26th

50p: “Brown has overreached.” http://viigo.im/oJO

Apr 26th

I’ve looked at the Budget properly now. Am livid.

Apr 26th

Good luck to everyone running the Marathon today.

Apr 26th

Plane Stupid, a group that engages in acts of lawbreaking, are surprised that the police are...

Apr 25th

Watching possibly the best James Bond car chase sequence there ever was.

Apr 25th

“The whole arsenal of the Orwell style” http://tr.im/jHTq

Apr 25th

RT @ConHome: Lib Dem parliamentary candidate defects to the Conservatives http://tinyurl.com/c7me7l

Apr 25th

“Compare “Down and Out” to an essay he wrote fifteen years...”

Apr 25th

Mmm… salt beef and copious amounts of red wine.

Apr 25th

Mais bien sur @gift_of_the_fab @torybear @Katemaltby - Work out to whom that is addressed like the...

Apr 25th

25-4-09: The View from Your Window, 25th April 2009

Apr 25th

New Post: A Race is On http://tinyurl.com/dc9u5e

Apr 25th

To rival the labour Group, I’ve started a Tory Twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/tories to join.

Apr 25th

RT @KerryMP: RT @huffingtonpost http://bit.ly/6rW5r - Cheney Starts Pro-Torture Facebook Page

Apr 25th

A Race is On

Apr 25th

I don’t think all this anniversarial focus on the Columbine murderers is remotely responsible.

Apr 25th

Sabah al Mukhtar: Elders Fan http://viigo.im/odX

Apr 25th

A hint of truth http://viigo.im/odY

Apr 25th

The 1994 Unaired Pilot for '24'

Apr 25th

“If you don’t care about all human rights everywhere– if...”

Apr 25th

I think I’m going to make the afternoon photo a regular thing and start taking my proper...

Apr 24th

RT @ConHome: Telegraph: Blair said to be unhappy at Brown’s 50p tax hike http://is.gd/unBF

Apr 24th

New Post: Peculiar Pedantry and Ahmadinejad http://tinyurl.com/cczt39

Apr 24th

RT @ConHome: Please RT: A Downing Street petition to get Brown to go:...

Apr 24th

Peculiar Pedantry and Ahmadinejad

Apr 24th

New Post: Politics Imitates Art. Again. http://tinyurl.com/ddrd4d

Apr 24th

Malcolm Tucker never fails to brighten up my day for some reason.

Apr 24th

Politics Imitates Art. Again.

Apr 24th

“Progressive taxation is regressive in effect.” Discuss.

Apr 24th

I won’t be attending Spring Forum after all.

Apr 24th

Manoeuvres In The Dark http://viigo.im/nHf

Apr 24th

RT @guardiantech: Ex-defence chief says attack on liberties is bowing to terrorists...

Apr 23rd

http://twitpic.com/3ur2k - Evening View

Apr 23rd

http://twitpic.com/3uin6 - Evening View

Apr 23rd

Strolling through London in the early evening with Jazz in the background. Splendid.

Apr 23rd

New Post: See Me Speak http://tinyurl.com/cbb6gb

Apr 23rd

See Me Speak

Apr 23rd

Happy St. George’s Day!

Apr 23rd

We’re not happy at the Budget http://viigo.im/mMx

Apr 22nd

Tune into the BBC 9 or 10 O’Clock news and you might just see me in action.

Apr 22nd

I’m not going to blog about the budget as I’ve not got enough time to do it justice.

Apr 22nd

The only people a 50p tax rate will enrich are tax lawyers.

Apr 22nd

Where’s the protection for the parts of the economy that actually generate wealth? #budget

Apr 22nd

The 50p rate has nothing to do with economics, everything to do with envy politics. #budget...

Apr 22nd

Real efficiency savings could come from re-thinking government IT policy. More open source anyone?

Apr 22nd

I don’t want my MP to turn up to Parliament just because she’s being paid to do so.

Apr 22nd

Excuse me Prime Minister, but some MPs need second homes.

Apr 22nd

Ditch “the Muslim World” http://tr.im/jmCD

Apr 21st

One of my photos of Berlin just got shortlisted for a Schmap guide, whatever that is.

Apr 21st

Filing: like productivity, but not.

Apr 21st

RT @IsraelPolicy4m: AB Yehoshua: Jew, Zionist, Israeli - A Clarification of Terms...

Apr 20th

RT @IsraelPolicy4m: Beautiful Moment: Delegates Jeer and Walk Out As Iranian President Spews Hate...

Apr 20th

New Post: New Chat Function http://tinyurl.com/cegqur

Apr 20th

Watch

Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad at Durban II

Apr 20th

New Chat Function

Apr 20th

Durban II is a joke.

Apr 20th

RT @NavyNews: (Battle of) MIDWAY fans… check out this page on Navy.mil… you WILL get...

Apr 20th

The new season of Ashes to Ashes is rather good.

Apr 20th

Bugger, hayfever’s starting. Time to go to the pharmacist and rattle off drug names from...

Apr 20th

Red Rag : the Others Who Knew at Labour HQ http://viigo.im/lr5

Apr 20th

RT @ConHome Please help compile a list of the most potent and transformational Tory policy...

Apr 20th

Watch

See if you can find me.

Apr 20th

“He knew that Mr McBride was an “attack dog”. ...”
— William Rees-Mogg, The Times,...

Apr 20th

Family Guy just missed a gag: should have read “Jesus Bigger Than the Beatles”

Apr 19th

Testing a little chat widget on my blog - would appreciate anyone testing it www.benjamin-gray.com

Apr 19th

JG Ballard RIP http://www.jgballard.com/

Apr 19th

A critique of healthcare markets http://tr.im/jbdy

Apr 19th

Boris rallying for the cause of the English language and St. George http://viigo.im/l2D

Apr 19th

A totalitarian shower? http://viigo.im/l27

Apr 19th

Ian Hislop Lays Into Bloggers http://viigo.im/l1P

Apr 19th

I’d quite like to see some discussion on this http://tinyurl.com/csqzx9

Apr 19th

Now the next cycle of rehearsals begins.

Apr 19th

Looking at those last two pieces I tweeted; “anti-torture” shouldn’t have to even...

Apr 18th

Zubaydah: First Blood http://viigo.im/kNC

Apr 18th

The Contortions Of The Torture Defenders http://viigo.im/kNA

Apr 18th

Taking @torybear’s advice and seeing “In the Loop” with the family tonight.

Apr 18th

Remembering The Dark Side http://viigo.im/kHA

Apr 18th

Sarah Palin’s “secret lobotomy”? http://viigo.im/kHG

Apr 18th

Who wants to design a banner for my blog?

Apr 18th

Kosovo, ten years on - explanations and distortions http://viigo.im/kFs

Apr 18th

Come “Meet” Khalid Meshaal At The House of Lords http://viigo.im/kEu

Apr 18th

Labourgraph Doing Downing Street’s Dirty Work Again http://viigo.im/kEo

Apr 18th

Can we please stop jumping to conclusions about Ian Tomlinson? The autopsy report isn’t even...

Apr 18th

Shrink the state: a leftist aim? http://viigo.im/kDg

Apr 18th

Terrorism, accidents and CBA http://viigo.im/kDe

Apr 18th

Bad law http://viigo.im/kCX

Apr 18th

Policy vs character in political reporting http://viigo.im/kDb

Apr 18th

What replaces political parties? http://viigo.im/kDh

Apr 18th

New Post: Real Debate Please http://tinyurl.com/d7wsm7

Apr 17th

It’s a dark wet day in April, and the clocks are striking 23

Apr 17th

Real Debate Please

Apr 17th

Just ended up doing some ship-spotting for the family.

Apr 17th

RT @gift_of_the_fab: Leave Derek alone http://ff.im/2bHVa

Apr 17th

What utterly vile weather.

Apr 17th

The liberty debate is hopelessly one-sided and unrealistic http://tr.im/j3IH

Apr 17th

RT @AmnestyUK: Still time to take action for Delara Darabi, age 17, due to be executed on Monday....

Apr 17th

RT @badscienceblogs: The media are missing the point about Derek Draper and psychotherapy...

Apr 17th

RT @theredbox: ‘2nd post-mortem on Ian Tomlinson, who died at G20 demo, shows he died of...

Apr 17th

The Pirate Bay deserved to be taken down.

Apr 17th

Clement Freud will be sorely missed.

Apr 16th

For All Hannan Fans

Apr 16th

RT @stephenfry: Just had dinner at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Real recruitment crisis. Come...

Apr 15th

Buck Pass! Buck Pass! #apprentice

Apr 15th

Jaw hitting the floor over #apprentice stupidity

Apr 15th

Now for the Apprentice

Apr 15th

Aaa! I’m covered in bees! #apprentice

Apr 15th

In defence of SpAds http://tr.im/iTV0

Apr 15th

Caepio Crispinus: McBride’s Roman predecessor http://tr.im/iTjH

Apr 15th

RT @mrpower: RT @DavidMacLean: The crusties who’ll judge Britain’s best blog...

Apr 15th

Taliban Morals: http://tr.im/iSHG

Apr 15th

Apparently “Sea Kittens” isn’t a joke. Don’t PETA get the irony of how...

Apr 15th

Furthermore, what would a catfish become? A Catseakitten? #peta

Apr 15th

New Post: For All Hannan Fans http://tinyurl.com/ctqluv

Apr 15th

Jeremy Bowen broke BBC editorial guidelines http://tr.im/iSea

Apr 15th

Guido takes on the Lobby journalists http://tr.im/iRSh, following Alice Miles’ regretful piece...

Apr 15th

Watching “The Lost World of Communism” and rekindling my interest in GDR history.

Apr 15th

Coalition builds against Downing Street “cesspit” http://tr.im/iRPJ

Apr 15th

RT @timmontgomerie: Young London wants Cameron as PM and Clarkson as Mayor http://is.gd/sxmD

Apr 15th

The Code Doesn’t Need Changing

Apr 15th

LabourHome: Prescott Calls for Draper’s Head http://viigo.im/isq

Apr 14th

RT @timmontgomerie: The Times has published a pictoral guide to the political blogosphere...

Apr 14th

Parallels between McBride-Draper and the London mayoral elections, plus the folly of smear....

Apr 14th

RT @media_guardian: Osborne’s wife complains to PCC over McBride email reports...

Apr 14th

RT @dangerroom: Few Good Options in Pirate Fight http://tinyurl.com/cbt6xb

Apr 14th

RT @bennyaustwick: Blog crisis started in America - http://tinyurl.com/cwpo7y

Apr 14th

http://twitpic.com/39m48 - Sun and colour are starting to emerge

Apr 14th

Deciphering The Tea Tantrums, Ctd http://viigo.im/il6

Apr 14th

New Post: Don’t Get Caught? http://tinyurl.com/cqp5dk

Apr 14th

Sanctions and sanctimony http://viigo.im/isj

Apr 14th

Wars aren’t won by mlitary force alone? Well duh. http://viigo.im/isi

Apr 14th

Alex Massie: Damn Those Ugly Sociopathic Nerds And Their Squalid Ejaculations! http://tr.im/iMV7

Apr 14th

Brown was warned about McBride http://tr.im/iMUJ

Apr 14th

RT @GuardianEdu: Aramaic language makes a comeback in Syria http://tinyurl.com/cffavz

Apr 14th

The irony of McBride’s job description was that he lacked both direction and a strategy...

Apr 14th

Don’t Get Caught?

Apr 14th

Sore Losers?

Apr 14th

New Post: Sore Losers? http://tinyurl.com/ctlao5

Apr 13th

Andrew Sullivan: What the hard Right don’t understand http://tr.im/iIke

Apr 13th

The politico-religious lesson of this Easter? Honour the Ninth Commandment!

Apr 13th

RT @thefabians: Next Left: So, who can make the stupidest point about the blogosphere?...

Apr 13th

Rot at the Core

Apr 13th

New Post: Rot at the Core http://tinyurl.com/cjs7le

Apr 12th

I and @bennyaustwick are looking for other bloggers to join us on the 2010 London Marathon. See here...

Apr 12th

After a rather busy day, can now settle down to write about Draper-McBride

Apr 12th

stupid me, replying to myself

Apr 12th

I have deliberately not posted on the McBride issue today as I want to see the contents of the...

Apr 12th

WaPo defending blog commenters http://tr.im/iDPa

Apr 12th

Watching Frost/Nixon tonight. Rather appropriate really.

Apr 12th

Gaah network #fail is stopping me from blogging properly.

Apr 12th

I’m on Youtube: scroll in to 1:04 to hear me defining extremism http://tr.im/iD0M

Apr 11th

Yep, McBride’s gone. Bye bye.

Apr 11th

Note to the uninitiated: I do not tolerate swearing in my blog comments section.

Apr 11th

RT @guidofawkes: Guido Fawkes : +++ Rumour McBride Fired +++: Warning, this is as yet...

Apr 11th

Big bank, little bank http://viigo.im/hAc

Apr 11th

Hmm… For some reason my Comments policy page isn’t showing up, nor is the swear-filter...

Apr 11th

RT @Politics_co_uk Analysis: Labour making all the mistakes http://tinyurl.com/cymryq

Apr 11th

Dizzy agrees that bloggers commenting about Tomlinson is largely pointless. http://viigo.im/hyo

Apr 11th

More proof, if ever it was needed, that Endemol has fully assumed the Bazalgette tradition of...

Apr 11th

“The Diaspora”/al-Shatat http://viigo.im/hxC

Apr 11th

Indonesia, world’s largest Muslim-majority country, delivers massive electoral blow to...

Apr 11th

Via @toadmeister more on the Downing Street Smear Scandal http://bit.ly/q0Oan (DEVELOPING)

Apr 11th

Srebrenica, anti-Americanism and Genocide Denial. http://viigo.im/hwQ

Apr 11th

Could prisoners make all the difference? http://viigo.im/hwO

Apr 11th

Theatre time.

Apr 11th

Is Damien Green about to be an issue again? http://viigo.im/hwN

Apr 11th

Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection...

Apr 11th

A Call for Silence

Apr 11th

Does the Internet hurt journalism? http://tr.im/iz2a

Apr 10th

RT @guardiantech: Zac Goldsmith: The Ecologist is going online for a wider, more immediate impact...

Apr 10th

Design and coding progressing. NCIS in background. Theatre in evening. Fun for all.

Apr 10th

And people say Latin isn’t relevant http://tr.im/iyAB

Apr 10th

New Post: A Call for Silence http://tinyurl.com/dms2qu

Apr 10th

The Henry Jackson Society are now twittering their “Democratic Geopolitics” thoughts....

Apr 10th

Is #benjamin4spotify an emergent grassroots campaign to propel me to stardom? Or is it (more likely)...

Apr 9th

Is #benjamin4spotify an emergent grassroots campaign to propel me to stardom? Or is it (more likely)...

Apr 9th

Strange Goings-on at City University http://viigo.im/gNi

Apr 9th

Liberals 1 Extremists 0 http://viigo.im/gN9

Apr 9th

I should not be allowed near bookshops.

Apr 9th

RT @bengoldacre Matthias Rath - steal this chapter http://tinyurl.com/dncnuk

Apr 9th

The shop I went into had to have a bakery attached, didn’t it?

Apr 9th

Afghanistan, Women’s Rights, and the importance of values and narrative....

Apr 9th

Red Cross report on torture in the US http://twurl.nl/44adtc

Apr 9th

The timing in some of 24 is highly suspect.

Apr 9th

When I hear people banging on about some mythical “liberal establishment” it makes me...

Apr 9th

Prepare for trouble in #Tbilisi today http://tr.im/iuOY

Apr 9th

Gaah, published a draft by accident.

Apr 9th

Surveillance: Panopticon vs. Synopticon http://twurl.nl/8mboe7

Apr 9th

Al-Qaeda is losing http://twurl.nl/74goh8

Apr 9th

Maintenance

Apr 9th

Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #politics #blogger...

Apr 8th

RT @technicalfault: Birmingham University Guild of Students. The font makes it look like Graun HQ....

Apr 8th

RT @bbcpolitics: A Tory government would work 2 ensure no banks become big enough to put the whole...

Apr 8th

New Post: Maintenance http://tinyurl.com/cz9p63

Apr 8th

Huge labrador in the garden. The cat is not happy about it.

Apr 8th

http://twitpic.com/2ylk0 - @technicalfault @laurapurll sexy boots

Apr 8th

Hurrah! Another Hizballahi prat excluded. http://viigo.im/fPN

Apr 8th

A week without bread or anything else leavened. Fun fun fun. Chag sameach.

Apr 8th

“Most of the Left is more interested in smug self-righteousness than in economics.”...

Apr 8th

A rebuttal to Henry Porter’s anti-Google tirade http://viigo.im/fPT

Apr 8th

Obama’s conservatism http://is.gd/rn65

Apr 8th