The two websites concerned are Redwatch and Dadsplace. Redwatch I have already written about. It is a site which aims to ‘out’ communists and identify them. As Richard S pointed out, the Brighton Argus featured a story about Sussex people featured on the site over the weekend. Dadsplace, on the other hand, is a site […]
Entries Tagged as 'Newspapers'
A tale of two websites
August 1st, 2006 · Comments Off on A tale of two websites · Politics
Tags: Blogging·Housing·Internet·Local Government·Newspapers·Racism·Redwatch
Racism at Bar Med?
July 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
Last week’s Crawley Observer filled its front page with a story about the police looking into allegations of racist door policies at the Bar Med in Crawley’s High Street. This week it is followed up on page two with a much smaller piece containing the following: A number of clubbers (presumably non-white) have contacted the […]
Tags: Crawley·Local Papers·Newspapers·Racism
Blogs Today
July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blogs Today · Technology
I think that the Blogs Today site is quite new, but it looks interesting. It is traditional, possibly even mandatory, for WordPress users to look down their noses a bit at a set-up which is free, very easy to use and under the ownership of a newspaper company, but it does have a lot going […]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·Newspapers·Wordpress
Blogs and ‘old media’
July 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
There has been a lot written lately about the relationship between new and old media. I have been keeping an eye on the debate but don’t feel involved: I don’t have aspirations towards being a ‘citizen journalist’ myself, or indeed any sort of journalist and I know that my readership is dwarfed by even the […]
Tags: Blogging·Broadfield Forum·Internet·Local Papers·Newspapers
Manbags and gladrags
July 1st, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life
All that fashion means to me is usually a few pages in the paper (or even a whole section) that I can skip, in the same way that I can safely ignore articles on food, wine, holidays and 'lifestyle' generally. Looking at that list I wonder if I read the wrong paper… on Saturdays I […]
Tags: Newspapers·World Cup 2006
Herceptin again
June 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off on Herceptin again · Life
On the back page of today’s Guardian G2 supplement, Gavyn Davies has slightly different numbers to those I was using, but he seems to come to roughly the same conclusions, albeit without a conspiracy theory about drugs companies tacked on the end…
Tags: Maths·Medicine/Health·Newspapers
Dirty tricks – part one
April 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics
here are two things going on at the moment which leave a nasty taste in the mouth – quite apart from the outbreaks of violence when the BNP launched their campaign on Sunday. First of all there is one story which will be in all the papers. It is already in the Argus today (and […]
Tags: Elections·Newspapers·Scandals
Caring Conservatives – my arse!
April 4th, 2006 · Comments Off on Caring Conservatives – my arse! · Politics
To recap: David Cameron came to town the other week and visited a school. He was full of praise for the new buildings and the provision of computers, but had to be heavily prompted to mention the quality of the pupils.
Tags: Crawley Hospital·Idiots·Medicine/Health·Newspapers·Tories
Public spirit
March 31st, 2006 · Comments Off on Public spirit · Life
Another story Jayne brought back from the community centre was much more heart-warming. A lady moved to Broadfield from another town some time ago. She had been worried because Broadfield does have a bit of a reputation, but having been led to expect something like Moss Side she found that the place is actually not […]
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC·Newspapers
Smash Hits
March 16th, 2006 · Comments Off on Smash Hits · Music
There have been a few articles in papers and magazines about the recent demise of the magazine Smash Hits, the latest being in this month’s Word magazine. Given that I am quite into music and was in my 20s during the 80s I should be getting all misty-eyed and nostalgic about this, but the truth […]
Tags: Newspapers·Nostalgia
