Benjamin Gray

Easy Spending Cuts

Jul 1st

Irony of the Day

Jul 1st

Remind You of Anyone?

Jul 1st

Remind You of Anyone?: Vanity Fair carries a massive assessment of Sarah Palin. In particular this...

Jul 1st

Easy Spending Cuts

Jun 30th

Easy Spending Cuts: In the phoney war over spending cuts, perhaps we could do better to start small....

Jun 30th

Robes of Office: Speaker Bercow has made a mistake in opting not to wear the traditional robes of...

Jun 26th

Azarenka should be gagged. That noise she’s making is absurd #wimbledon

Jun 26th

Robes of Office

Jun 26th

Obama and Game Theory

Jun 26th

Obama and Game Theory: Via Ian Leslie, an insight into the psychological conduct of Obama’s...

Jun 25th

Backing Bercow, Ctd

Jun 24th

Neda’s Fiancé on al-Jazeera: http://tinyurl.com/onhtbz

Jun 23rd

The Face of Dissent: Basijis shooting Neda Agha Soltan to death. Perhaps after this they will stop...

Jun 23rd

The Right Man Won: I ended up backing John Bercow for the speakership. Sir George Young was...

Jun 23rd

Backing Bercow, Ctd: Benedict Rogers defends John Bercow from the Right: Ought not especially those...

Jun 23rd

RT @gift_of_the_fab coming round to Bercow victory on the back of ‘Dorries effect’. Just...

Jun 23rd

RT @raggedyanndy:RT Parsis ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Very important message to all Basiji: FUCK YOU....

Jun 23rd

Simple ways to help Iranian free speech: http://is.gd/13U0V #IranElection #gr88 Pls RT

Jun 23rd

An Interesting Split

Jun 23rd

Neda’s Fiancé on al-Jazeera

Jun 23rd

The Face of Dissent

Jun 23rd

The Right Man Won

Jun 23rd

Bercow’s given one of the most comprehensive speeches so far. Good work #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

Some days I feel like the only Tory supporting Bercow #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

I enjoyed reading Sir Patrick Cormack’s article in the Times earlier this week #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

Strong speech from Richard Shepherd #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

As far as I can see I’d support anyone for speaker so long as it isn’t Margaret Beckett...

Jun 22nd

I do like Sir Alan Haselhurst #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

Go Sir Patrick Go! #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

It’s a shame that Sir Patrick didn’t have better odds #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

It’s interesting to watch the difference of perceptions between the different twitterers,...

Jun 22nd

Actually, come to think of it, I’m backing Bercow #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

Am very happily on the fence about Bercow vs. Young. Either’s good. #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

The best man won. Wahey! Also quite funny to watch my own side fume a bit. #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

There you go @tom_watson Parmjit Dhanda mentioned Twitter #NewSpeaker

Jun 22nd

Assuming MB doesn’t win, these speeches should go some way towards restoring the reputation of...

Jun 22nd

An Interesting Split: Via the Guardian: 1.35pm: General Ali Fazli, recently appointed as commander...

Jun 22nd

Back from tour. Blogging should resume shortly.

Jun 21st

Supporting the Protesters: Blogging will be light this week as I’m on tour with only a Blackberry...

Jun 18th

Supporting the Protesters

Jun 18th

It’s my birthday and I’m on tour so don’t expect too much blogging.

Jun 17th

The Labour MPs just pissed me off with that heckling #PMQs

Jun 17th

Parallel Prejudices

Jun 17th

Following the Iranian News

Jun 17th

Where Twitter is Useful: For live reporting it remains an excellent medium: Twitter wasn’t merely...

Jun 16th

Iran and Domestic Politics: Alastair Campbell on Iran’s post-electoral unrest: It is a reminder both...

Jun 16th

Iranian Electoral Fraud: Assuming this is genuine (and that’s a big assumption), the following...

Jun 16th

Where are all the Libertarian bloggers supporting the Iranians against genuine repression?

Jun 16th

RT @mslusus:@CNN STOP posting user names. you are PUTTING SOURCES IN DANGER! #CNNfail #iranelection...

Jun 16th

I’m back on Twitter for the day to follow the Iranian demos

Jun 16th

More Complex than it Seems: It’s always popular to portray events such as those going on in Iran as...

Jun 16th

RT @Daneyann:Help hide Iranian activists from the secret police; change your location and timezone...

Jun 16th

Parallel Prejudices: On the same subject of not jumping to conclusions, we should be careful not to...

Jun 16th

Following the Iranian News: Marc Ambinder has put together something of a guide to following the...

Jun 16th

Iran and Domestic Politics

Jun 16th

Where Twitter is Useful

Jun 16th

Iranian Electoral Fraud

Jun 16th

More Complex than it Seems

Jun 16th

The Problem with Constitutional Reform: As a remedy to the expenses scandal it is suggested that we...

Jun 14th

The Problem with Constitutional Reform

Jun 14th

Playing Truant

Jun 13th

Iranian Elections: Context

Jun 13th

Iranian Elections: Initial Thoughts: I’ll probably be posting several times on the Iranian elections...

Jun 12th

Playing Truant: At least she had a watertight alibi. http://tinyurl.com/ncvsd7

Jun 12th

Iranian Elections: Context: The polls closed a few hours ago and I’m setting aside my usual aversion...

Jun 12th

Iranian Elections: Initial Thoughts

Jun 12th

New Post: Formatting Issues http://tinyurl.com/mfroes

Jun 11th

New Post: CNAS Strategy Conference http://tinyurl.com/l6sahg

Jun 11th

Hey #CNASdc let’s try this out (Striking A Balance: A New American Security live >...

Jun 11th

Anyone else here? #CNASdc (Striking A Balance: A New American Security live >...

Jun 11th

Using this for Ustream. Do not consider this a return to Twitter.

Jun 11th

Formatting Issues

Jun 11th

CNAS Strategy Conference

Jun 11th

An Absurd Strike

Jun 11th

New Post: An Absurd Strike http://tinyurl.com/m4huh8

Jun 10th

Questionable Priorities

Jun 10th

The BNP and the Limits of Negative Politics

Jun 10th

New Post: The BNP and the Limits of Negative Politics http://tinyurl.com/nltx7z

Jun 9th

Questionable Priorities

Jun 9th

The BNP and the Limits of Negative Politics

Jun 9th

New Post: Questionable Priorities http://tinyurl.com/kwrvgu

Jun 8th

New Post: Nineteen Eighty-Four Meme http://tinyurl.com/klzhwg

Jun 8th

Nineteen Eighty-Four Meme

Jun 8th

For Fans of the Apprentice

Jun 7th

New Post: For Fans of the Apprentice http://tinyurl.com/pgrj4y

Jun 6th

VOTE

Jun 4th

New Post: A Lack of Courage http://tinyurl.com/pjqlyg

Jun 4th

New Post: I’m Giving Up Twitter http://tinyurl.com/o2yeap

Jun 4th

A Lack of Courage

Jun 4th

I’m Giving Up Twitter

Jun 4th

Legalese.

Jun 2nd

http://twitpic.com/6gu41 - Caffeine & Tannin Intake

Jun 2nd

Hmm… Thinking of something to write for D-Day. Any ideas?

Jun 2nd

New Post: Risk Transfer http://tinyurl.com/n3nca5

Jun 1st

http://twitpic.com/6eoiy - City Conspiracy Theorist

Jun 1st

Fun in court

Jun 1st

Riding the train back into London to the William Tell Overture. Surprisingly exciting.

Jun 1st

Risk Transfer

Jun 1st