Gypsy Twittering Poll Overload

Twitterers claim victory over loaded Mail Poll.

This follows an article by Richard Littlejohn, 'Fast-tracking the Tarmacing community on the NHS', which criticises the new regulations on making sure travellers and gypsies get access to proper healthcare (see my earlier post). The paper ran a poll asking the public “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue?” A campaign by Twitterers overloaded the Mail's system with 'yes' votes.

I wonder how many of them are gypsies or travellers?

Iran Twitter German Censorship Insurrection Coffee

Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors. ?

The Coming Insurrection? Liberating Lipsticks and Lattes.

The dawning of internet censorship in German. It's either terrorism or child abuse - take your pick.

One Baron, Two Baronesses And A Man Of Straw

Andrew Rawnsley interviews Baron Mandy in the Observer; talks about the Royal Mail carve up and still doesn't mention the EU.

Just because you're a professor doesn't mean you can't talk out of your arse: Greenfield doesn't get social networking. Best keep schtum, then, Susan.

Jack Straw demonstrates why he should be hanged, drawn and quartered. Helena Kennedy at the Convention on Modern Liberty yesterday said it was easy for MPs to get into a state of mind where they believed what they were doing to improve national security was good and not to realise how much they were destroying our liberties. There's a certain amount of truth to that but I'm not of such a forgiving mind as the Baroness. There are plenty of individuals who are directly responsible for the deliberate destruction of our liberties and they know it. These are guilty people, guilty individually and collectively. Jack Straw is one of them.