Sharpe's Opinion
Wednesday, 25th Nov, 2009
House of Comments Episode 5: Hung Parliaments, Cyberlockers, Sawn-Off Shotguns and Blog Regulation
You surely know the drill by now – the House of Comments Podcast, a ‘brief’ rundown of the news ‘this week’1 by Mark Reckons and I with special guests. This week we had Charlotte Gore and Constantly Furious, both of whom were genuinely great and both of whom I hope are up for coming on again in the future.
Here’s the show notes, complete with links to many of the sites and posts we mentioned:
Charlotte Gore and Constantly Furious join us this week on the House of Comments Podcast to talk about some of the UK political blogosphere’s biggest stories over the past week.
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We chatted about the possibility of a hung parliament, in light of a poll with the Tory lead down to only 6%, and ask what that could mean for the Lib Dems.
Lord Mandelson’s ‘Three Strikes’ policy for cutting off illegal file-sharers and cracking down on ‘cyberlockers’ is still making waves, as is the manner in which he has used statutory instruments to push the legislation through. What problem is he trying to solve, and will his plans do anything to solve it?
Paul Clarke handed in a shotgun at his local police station and now faces a possible 5 year jail sentence. Constantly Furious was pretty angry about this, whilst Jack of Kent had the most detailed account of the story.
The new Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Baroness Buscombe, has been quoted as saying she’s interested in regulating the blogosphere, a prospect many bloggers are not happy about. We blow her a collective raspberry.
Enjoy!
- The last two weeks this time – we had to cancel last week’s at short notice due to Mark being asked to appear on Sky News [↩]