Having enjoyed “Guido Fawkes’s” (dis)appearance yesterday evening on Newsnight over my lunch today, there’s only one thing I’d change about my post on political blogging from last week: I’d call it “Squeaky Man”.
I recommend this Google Blogsearch as well. In particular, whilst ranting about Tories, “Hamer Shawcross”, another anonymous watcher-of-parliament, captures something of Fawkes’s blog’s contribution to contemporary debate and “notsaussure” tells us the English for Schadenfreude.
Poor old Guido did come across dreadfully didn’t he? It’s why people with no experience of TV or radio should think very carefully about going on – he just wasn’t nearly quick enough on his feet. Mind you, it was quite ironic that Michael White, while decrying the low standards of truth on the blogosphere should state emphatically that he had no idea how old John Prescott was, when he’d written an article about his 68th birthday party…