Sharpe's Opinion

Dec

• Doctor Who Bingo: ‘It Is Returning’ Edition
• White Wine In The Sun
• BBC Demonstrates Its Disgusting Liberal Bias, Brings Gayers Out of the Woodwork
• Tories to Buy Darling A House
• Proof of Tory Suppresion of Climate Denial?
• What A Superb Budget
• House of Comments No. 7: ‘Sympathy For Malcolm Tucker’
• I didn’t leave the conservative movement. It left me
• The Three ‘Benefits’ of Electoral Reform
• Defining Spinglish: “In These Uncertain Times”
• I Never Get Invited To Parties
• But We Don’t Want to Give You THAT…
• Earlier Every Year

Nov

• ‘As It Turns Out, the Apes DO Want to Live Forever’
• ‘Don’t Disconnect Us’ Petition
• The Sacred Cows of Climate Change
• The Very Model of a Pirate Finder General
• Pie Guy
• Say No to Toast
• House of Comments Episode 5: Hung Parliaments, Cyberlockers, Sawn-Off Shotguns and Blog Regulation
• Turtles all the way down
• Still Making the Clackity Noise
• Swine Flu Vaccination Programme ‘Well Under Way’
• The Times Caught Stealing Content From Blog Posts
• Insert Your Own Fisk Here
• The blogger Who Guessed Belle de Jour’s Real Identity
• Against the Truth
• So Why Was #PaulClarke Arrested?
• Laying Down the Law
• Man Arrested For Wandering Into Police Station With Shotgun SHOCK
• Dear Me…
• Where Does My Money Go?
• Scientific Experiments in Glasgow East
• Self Hypnosis, Politics Style
• Comparing Google Suggestions
• Depressing Website O’ The Day
• Evan Williams on why ‘Retweet’ works the way it does
• Twitter may not be right for business
• Caitlin Moran on Email Addresses
• 11-11-09
• Labour’s Debts, Twitter’s Power, Watford’s Playgrounds and MP’s Salaries.
• The Land of Progress
• Remembrance Sunday
• MacHeist nanoBundle
• ”Health and Safety Gone Mad’ Gone Mad’ – Gone Mad!
• Number 10 Responds to ‘Resign’ Petition
• EU-Turn If You Want To
• Cardiff Blogger Cuts Ties With Party Politics
• File Sharing is not Piracy
• David Cameron on Evidence Based Policy
• House of Comments Episode 3
• Johann Hari on Ayn Rand

Oct

• Royal Mail strikes will become permanent, says CWU
• More on Watford’s Adventure Playgrounds
• Human Provenance Project Dropped, But Still Going Ahead?
• I Don’t Tell You How To Do YOUR Job…
• Parents Barred From Watford’s Adventure Playgrounds
• Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
• The casting of the Pod
• Virgin Media Broadband Traffic Management Policy
• Broadband Speed, Cost and Uptake Around the World
• Something New
• The Fifth Estate
• Nick Griffin, Sex Trafficking and All Women Shortlists
• Charlie Brooker on Jan Moir
• Observations Regarding the Discussion of Twitter as a Force for Change In Light of the Guardian Gagging Story
• Quote of the Day: Sandra Gidley
• A bridge not far enough?
• Learning To Be Lucky
• Credit Where Credit is Due
• The man who invented the London libel industry
• Guardian Gag Lifted
• Blogosphere Reactions to the Carter-Ruck Gagging Order
• Governmentium (Gv)
• Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
• Introducing the House of Comments Podcast
• 8 Nobel Peace Prize Winners Who Would Have Been Better than Barack Obama
• The Tories’ Lisbon Treaty Problem…
• Argos and eBay Leave Royal Mail
• Word Cloud of David Cameron’s Conference Speech
• David Cameron’s Buzzword Bingo
• Royal Mail loses Amazon contract due to strikes
• Hope For Mankind In Their Sacrifice
• Boris Johnson Interviewing Jeremy Paxman
• A Libertarian’s Worst Nightmare
• UK economy ‘is still not growing’
• There’s not a lot David Cameron can do about Lisbon
• How the ‘Send Single Mothers to the Poorhouse’ announcement came about
• MyConservatives.com
• The hedonic treadmill
• Return of the Redact

Sep

• WTF.
• Speaking of Sarah Brown…
• Get Rid of Gordon. Vote Sarah.
• More on the Asylum Seeker DNA Tests
• DNA tests for asylum seekers
• Nanny State
• Fatsos Wot Don’t Know They’re Fat
• What New Labour Feels Like
• Labour Cannot Be Killed
• PSA: Opinion Polls May Damage Your Health
• Gordon Brown Agrees to TV Election Debate
• An Interview With Wolfram|Alpha
• Britain’s Free Democrats
• The Tories Groundbreaking Campaigning Website?
• Mac Users and Microsoft Adverts
• Not Impartial But Not Intentionally Biased
• Tips for Organising a Windows 7 Party
• Fighting in the Phone Wars
• Tax, Incentives, and Common Sense
• Nick Clegg on Copyright Law
• Lily Allen’s Copyright Problem
• Harry Potter And the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy
• The Lib Dems Don’t Know What Love-Bombing Means
• Hogwarts is a Terrible School
• Six of One and Half A Dozen of the Other: On The End of PoliticsHome
• Rizla Politics
• In the Belly of the Beast; Or: My Day at the Lib Dem Conference
• Conference? What Conference?
• Praise! Fame! Lists! AWARDS! (And another opportunity vote for ME!)
• If It Saves One Child…
• Lib Dems In Glass Houses Ought Not to Throw Tweets
• Hitler’s Downfall
• Mythbusting Man Flu
• Fifth Among Equals
• Let There be More Lights; Or: Taking Charlotte Down A Peg.
• Well that’s not so bad, is it?

Aug

• Backbenchers should be allowed to disagree with Parties
• Cabbies & record companies
• Readability Bookmarklet
• Thank you for voting
• Snow Leopards Too Blood Thirsty for Apple
• Quote of the Day
• A Guide for Americans Boycotting Scotland
• We’re all wearing sandals now
• TalkTalk responds to Mandelson’s ‘Disconnect Pirates’ Proposal
• On Having the Moral High Ground
• We never get the whole story from the news
• Lessn – Personal URL Shortener
• Labour’s False Claim to the NHS
• Various Representations of Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Some Other Links in the Chain
• Portions of Gordon Brown’s #WeLoveTheNHS Letter Translated From ‘Spinglish’ Into English
• Let’s Manufacture Some Outrage!
• Polite Notice to All Customers
• Translating Vince
• Hilary Jones, Derby City Council Leader
• Jo Swinson Loves a Good Banning

Jul

• Don’t Vote For Me!
• Make the very best products. Business will follow.
• Vote Labour: Pay More, Get Less
• Bus Advertising – Not just for Atheists?
• Ripping up foxes and clubbing seals
• Flying Rodent: Everyone In The Blogroll Excepted, Of Course
• A Cycle of Errant Lib Demmery
• Campaigning is Dead, Long Live Campaigning!
• It’s the Nanny State Gone Mad!
• Richard Desmond Sets the Record Straight
• Baby Grand Featured on parentdish.co.uk’s Top 5 iPhone Apps for Parents
• Editing Sarah Palin’s Resignation Speech
• ShapeSorter
• Christopher Hitchens on Britain’s Labour Party
• Rent-A-Person
• Validation
• You Are Awesome
• Is Guido as Guilty as the Lobby Hacks?
• Fed Up With the Nanny State
• Most IE6 users can’t upgrade
• The Daily Mail’s Vicious Circle
• Guido: Telegraph Losing £200,000 a Week
• Boris Johnson has an Enormous Cockerel
• Norman Baker Tells Boris Johnson Never to Earn Any Money
• The UK Citizenship Test
• Teach Your Kids to Argue Properly
• More on that ‘77% Increase in Crime’ Figure
• Guido: ‘We Hold the Journalists to account’
• Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime
• Myows – Online Copyright Protection Service

Jun

• New Torchwood Series Starts On Monday… And Ends on Friday
• Fraser Nelson on the Lies of Ed Balls
• Web Site Story
• Giving up an iPod for a Walkman
• Charlotte Gore Doth Protest Too Much
• Stoned wallabies make crop circles
• I Love the Smell of Blog Posts in the Morning.
• ‘Overweight’ people live longer
• A brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot
• Crowd-sourcing Lessons From The Guardian’s Expenses Scandal Experiment
• The Open Government Initiative Faces Many of the Same Problems WebCameron Did
• The Tories Must Accept the New Speaker
• The Anti-Theft iPhone
• No leader of a free country would lie to take their country to war.
• Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations
• The Great iPhone Tethering Disappointment.
• Pixar Makes a 10-Year-Old’s Dying Wish Come True
• Anyone But Beckett? Please?!
• Anonymity, NightJack, and a Partial Defence of The Times
• Exactly Enough Rope to Hang Themselves
• The Return of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
• In the Event of a Zombie Attack…
• The Problem With The Labour Rebels…
• Silver Linings
• Last Week In Links
• Not Talking About Politics
• A Party That Only Cares About Technique
• Suicide Squad – ATTACK!
• Untenable? He Doesn’t Know How To Spell The Word…
• VOTE! Otherwise Democracy Might Happen!
• Can’t Vote, Won’t Vote
• EXCLUSIVE: Cabinet Reshuffle Plans Revealed!
• The Ascension of Alan Johnson
• Gone Baby Gone
• Stupid Is As Stupid Does

May

• Labour In Third Place – I Can Haz Election Now Plz?
• What Is So Scary About the BNP?
• Indecision and Independents
• The Panic Three-Day Sale
• The Untimely Death of British Satire
• When Lib Dem leaflets lose their edge, Lib Dems lose elections
• So, If Proportional Representation Weighs The Same As A Duck…
• The Questionable Journalistic Standards of The Telegraph
• The Elephant in Chris Rennard’s Room
• Quote of the Day
• Does A Poor Workman Really Blame His Tools?
• Nadine Goes Insane, Creates Conspiracy Theory
• 10 Fantasy Speakers
• The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble
• Open Primaries Would Make Our MPs More Honest
• Reselect Democracy
• Single Common Ancestor Behind Blue Eyes
• How Would the Blogosphere Have Handled the Expenses Scandals?
• Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
• A Quick Introduction to Wolfram Alpha
• Shadow Cabinet’s Expense Claims Published Online
• Paul Staines, Toby Young and Peter Oborne to Form A New Political Party?
• Nothing British About the BNP
• Cameron’s Conservatives
• Donations Welcome
• Blue Eyes Has A Solution to the Expenses Problem
• #fixreplies
• An Open Letter to the Liberal Democrat Party
• Cameron’s Expenses Response
• Only Their Successors Can Redeem Them
• The Five Stages of Liberal Conspiracy
• The Most Brilliant Thing That’s Happened in Politics for a Long Time
• I Was Never Sure What Happened in The Usual Suspects Either
• Paging Iain Dale: An Apology is NOT a PR Strategy
• Andrew Rawnsley: Worse than the Expenses is the Lack of Remorse
• Quote of the Day
• One Year On…
• A Concise Summary of the MPs Expenses Revealed So Far
• Quote of the Day
• Stephen Fry writes to his 16-year-old self
• Labour Has Failed At Tackling Inequality
• Mangled Statistics on Poverty
• Comparing Brown With Major is Flattering Brown
• Why Won’t Anyone Give Me An ID Card?
• Don’t Let Gordon Resign, Let Him Suffer
• A duty of care
• Yowch.
• Labour are abusive partners – and we want better politicians
• Where would we be without Thatcher?
• 10 More Prime Ministers Who Would Be Better Than Gordon Brown
• Tough on Custard, Tough on the Causes of Custard
• America Ready To Be Lied To About Economy Again
• Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Debate Which Followed My Recent Post About the Time I Went to My Local Lib Dems’ Website
• Baby Grand 1.0 Now Available
• Better Prime Ministers Than Gordon Brown
• I Don’t Think ‘Digital Engagement’ Means What You Think It Means
• Taxes for the Poor
• I Am One Unique Visitor.
• Johann Hari: Swine ‘Flu is a Product of Our Love of Cheap Meat
• Sharpe’s Opinion Doesn’t Do Statporn…

Apr

• A New Podcast on the Block
• What do you do when you find a lost wallet?
• Twitter’s power to misinform
• The Health Organisation That Cried Wolf
• Whose Fault is the Rise of the BNP?
• Earthquakes on Twitter First
• A Neighborhood’s Reputation: Gone In 360 Seconds
• ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Ponies
• Just very naughty boys?
• Misunderstanding the Articles They Almost Read
• A Small Victory.
• The Problem With Setting Goals
• New Petition to Get Behind
• Could Have Been Worse
• Technology is great, isn’t it!
• Private Economics Tuition From Gordon Brown.
• A devastating collapse in the nation’s face
• Tough on the Causes of Wealth
• Best. Lawsuit. Ever.
• Marijuana or Alcohol?
• Perhaps The Grammar Nazis Are Just Insecure
• OH NOES! NONE OF US ARE SPEEKIN PROPER NO MORE!!!
• Why aren’t I an MP?
• Why You Should Support IE6
• Anarchy Conference: Queue Here Please…
• Patriotism Is Not An Excuse For Racism
• Free as in “Me”
• Twitter, Twitshirt and Intellectual Property Rights
• Not Yet A Lib Dem
• Guido Attacks the Media. In the Times.
• Tom Harris is Over It Now
• In England, When the Grammar Nazis Came…
• 99 Bottles of Beer
• The Irony (or Idiocy?) of the Left’s Reaction to Ian Tomlinson
• Giving Up
• Leave Derek Alone
• Fraser Nelson and James Forsyth In A Tag-Team Balls-Fisking
• Why’d You Try To Render It Like A Box, IE?
• Teachers Can Have Payrise When Children Are Less Stupid
• zOMG THEY GOT GUIDO!!
• A Pattern of Violence and Lies
• Uncomfortable Plot Summaries
• It’s fun to be Guido
• A Change of Culture Requires A Change of Leadership
• A Moral Crusade, or Nothing
• Jacqui Smith’s House Gets A Blue Plaque
• The Times ‘Map of the Political Blogosphere’
• Birdhouse — A notepad for Twitter
• Always in Opposition
• The Gunpowder Plot: Why The Conservative Party Fears Guido More Than You Think…
• Orwell. In the Study. With the Candlestick.
• Ian Tomlinson and the Blogosphere
• Orwell’s Letter of Rejection from T. S. Eliot
• Citizenship Tests and Immigration Advice
• Can I do another Boats Metaphor?
• We cannot come to one conclusion or another
• Jon Engle: The Thot Begins to Plicken
• Tragedy and Party Politics
• Too Bad They Never Made Any Sequels
• Video of Ian Tomlinson Before He Died at the G20 Protests
• The Fan-Centered Business Model
• Bees: The Solution to Economic Crisis
• Do we have too many MPs?
• How Social Media really works
• Stealing Design work then Suing the Original Designer?
• Imagine that.
• Flight Control High Scores, Tips and Tricks
• G20 Was A PR Triumph
• Just a Link in the Chain
• The Blame for the Violence
• Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
• Beat the Credit Crunch by Building More Houses!
• Tormenting Geeks, Nerds, and Dweebs
• Your problem is… Shopping?
• G20 Protests Cancelled!

Mar

• MPs Screwing The Taxpayer Awards 2009
• Wait for it to pass
• Tory Bear has Tom Harris Figured Out
• From Confidence to Despair
• Link Roundup – ‘Government is A Farce’ Edition
• Down Keyboards, We’re Striking!
• Slow Day Today; Or: Alix Mortimer For The Win
• The UK is not the USA
• Riots Are Not Democracy
• Baby Grand Now Available On The App Store
• Standing in the EU Queue
• Accessibility is NOT a checklist
• Jonathan Coulton Gets Paid
• A Devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government (with Transcript)
• Tim Montgomery Hits the Nail on the Head Concerning Obama
• This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
• Labour Government Fall In A Vote of No Confidence
• Gordon Brown: Loser
• Preliminary thoughts on the tax bill
• We Are Defined By What We Build
• The only people better than the Chinese Government at controlling ‘popular opinion’
• Database State is Flawed, Insecure, Overpriced and Needs Scrapping
• The Undercover Economics of A-Level Grades
• I would have got away with it, too, if only I’d had a twin…
• America is not sufficiently prepared for the Apocolypse
• Not Many Bright Young Things In Labour’s Future
• Gordon Brown’s Humble Apology
• With any luck, the economy will never recover
• Not enough for Labour to lose the election
• It Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You
• We Live in the Future
• River Rules No Longer Apply
• How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
• Tangled Cables and Dongly Things
• Opinion Polls are About as Useful as the Weather Report
• Creationist Field Trips to Natural History Museums
• Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism
• Trent Reznor on Scalpers
• We Can’t Afford to Use Cheap Malaria Drugs
• Jon Stewart Interviews Jim Cramer
• The Self-Selected Bunch of Inexplicably Livid Weirdos
• Vanity and Evil Penguins
• What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
• Clinging To The Wreckage
• The Difference Between Gordon Brown and Bernard Madoff
• Fatal Distraction
• Illustrating the Absence of God
• Got £5000? Then You can Be A Cyber Criminal Too!
• There’s Gonna Be A War, Man…
• Old Wars and New Wars
• No One Can Protest Too Much
• A Few Anecdotes About Children
• The least bad policy
• Gusty Winds May Exist
• One Letter Off Competition
• Zebras and Pelicans
• US iTunes gift certificates bought with stolen cards
• The Chinese iTunes Gift Voucher Trick
• Entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come through
• How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff?
• Rachel Sylvester Doesn’t Like Twitter. Do We Care?
• Fox Hunting Still Thriving
• Cultural Compression Artifacts
• Wolfram Alpha became self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th 2009…
• Winning Friends & Influencing People
• Man Thinks He Was Fired Because Of Recession
• I Used To Think That Correlation Implied Causation
• I Was a Teenage Parent Once
• Hatfield Girl Has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
• Sorry From Gordon
• Crisis of Credit, Visualised
• The Presidential British Film Library
• Liberal Conspiracy Going for the Lowest Common Denominator
• The Financial Crisis Which Started In America
• Web Design+ — Tips and advice on web standards development
• Boris Goes Head to Head With ‘Mad Hattie’
• The Speech Gordon Brown Should Be Giving
• Darling Takes Responsibility. Not.
• The Art of the Tweet
• From Man to Pig and From Pig to Man
• Why hasn’t America been attacked since 9/11?
• If You Don’t Have Children You Don’t Understand
• From Billions to Trillions

Feb

• Total Perspective Vortex
• Baby Grand – The iPhone Piano for Children
• What Paul Graham Has Learned About Bad Comments
• Photo of the Day
• Raedwald is Wrong, Parris is Wrong. The Commons Were Absolutely Right.
• Do Pixar Have Girl Issues?
• Welcome back, semicolon; cu l8r, informality
• Only one shot
• How the Internet is Wrecking People’s Ability to Notice the Irony of Using the Internet to Complain about the Internet ‘Wrecking Society’
• On Not Allowing Comments
• A Child Loaned
• Condolences
• Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy
• Safari 4 Public Beta
• BBC Responds to Complaints over Cerrie Burnell
• A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small.
• Take a look at Vail
• Stopping the Hate.
• Here or there
• The Recession is the Cure
• The Moral Instinct
• Why?
• So much stuff we don’t need that we don’t know where to put it all
• Innovation Hindering Innovation
• Watford can’t live up to these expectations
• Geert Wilders Is Not A Nice Person
• Stop That Kissing, Please
• Blue Eyes is a Racist
• Man Flu – A Creation of Sexist Women
• A large bank with a medium sized government attached
• Pity the couples who go through the motions year after year
• ‘Nothing worth saying is inoffensive to everyone’
• DP/30 Interview with Andrew Stanton
• Reflecting on Al Gore’s 8 Year Presidency
• Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis, Week 1
• What if Labour Won?
• The Hand of History Rests on Blogging
• Go ye after him through the city, and smite
• Religion Doesn’t Fit With Western Values
• Mass Intelligence
• The aXXo files
• Darwinian Political Theory
• Vatican Spin Doctors Deserve A Payrise
• The Encounter
• Competence is the only factor that matters
• George Monbiot has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
• In Which I Contradict My Free Market Principles and, In Doing So, Quote Extensively From Monty Python.
• Measles Vaccination in the US
• Internet Not Really So Dangerous For Kids After All
• Using taxes to bail out charities crosses a dangerous line
• Identity Arguments
• The guilt of a selfish working mother
• You choose who you follow
• No one wants to hear you unless you scream
• Dodgy Statistics on Obesity
• The Economics of Giving It Away
• No News is Good News: Tizzy’s Take on Week 1
• Positive Reviews of Coraline
• No News is Good News: Roundup, Week 1
• Pakigate, Sootygate, Gollygate
• The People’s Republic of Mortimer is a Totalitarian State
• An Email I Really Didn’t Want To Receive
• Why Popular Opinion is Nearly Always Wrong
• This Snow is Awesome.
• How Twitter Was Born
• That Most Quintessentially British of Pastimes
• Shawn Blanc Reviews Two Things
• Blue Eyes Gets Pessimistic
• No Conspiracy Here
• Europe: The Good, The Bad

Jan

• Tom Harris Talks Sense on Iraq
• No News Is Good News: An Experiment.
• News media: not just biased, but rubbish
• Visual Guide to the American Government’s Unemployment Statistics
• The $300 Million Button
• Trouble in Digital Britain?
• Doomed to eventual failure
• Don’t treat your customers like thieves
• Taming Perfectionism
• Playing The Beatles Backwards: The Ultimate Countdown
• Spoken Word
• The hatemongers believe in your god
• The Graveyard Book Wins The Newbery Medal
• Access All Areas
• State of the Euro
• How the city hurts your brain
• Jump London Available on the Internet
• A Word of Thanks
• The Politics of Flash
• Charlotte Gore calls Libertarian blogs bonkers
• Lifting the Veil of Secrecy
• Don’t put away childish things
• The BBC Should Stop its TV News
• Earth, observed
• On the side of those who seek to make it known
• Forget FoI and Forget MPs Expenses: We Should Have ALL the Information
• Don’t mention the back-down
• More to Obama than his Colour
• James Cleverly Publishes His Expenses
• Blimey. It looks like the Internets won
• Three Simple CSS Tricks For Websites and Blogs and the Beautification Thereof
• How You Can Help Persuade MPs to Do The Right Thing
• Comparing Word clouds: Obama and Cameron
• Change we can believe in
• Slumdog and the power of coincidence
• The tired and enfeebled old guard hobbling off the stage
• We Need A British Obama – But Race Is Not The Issue
• Bloody Servers.
• Ask not what America will do for you
• I want an election. Now.
• Man or Mouse
• What a Difference a Week Makes
• Not Dyslexic: A Self Fulfilling Prophecy
• Tax Cuts for Teachers
• A Couple in Chicago
• An ‘Innovative’ Idea for Keynesian Splurge
• Bushisms and Blairisms
• Intellectual piracy from Labour
• Cablevision and the infinite TiVo
• Swedish Cows and Earthquakes
• Positivity
• Can the US economy afford a Keynesian stimulus?
• Weady For Woss
• Advice for Derek Draper
• What truly has value in our lives
• How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
• Why Do We Need All Those Buttons?
• The Gazan Perspective
• Understanding Israel
• Bailing out America’s Subprime Reading Market
• “Often imprudent, and not seldom dishonest”
• God Or Science?
• Don’t Nationalise the Banks
• Money (That’s What Bloggers Want)
• Macworld: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop
• ObaMcCain Powder
• 993 Unread
• Motown: 30 at 50

Dec

• Merry Christmas
• TIME Says History Can’t Wait for Obama
• Can you be opposition leader for too long?
• Lessons from the Damian Green affair for Tory strategy
• Open Policies and Open Source Politics
• Joined-up thinking on car manufacturers
• The peculiarities of tradition
• The Periodic Table of Awesoments
• We need an election, but not because of Iraq
• In Which A Universal Philosophical Truth Is Uncovered Through Search Engine Keywords
• Brown’s regime becoming more and more Nixonian
• Buying iPhones Will Lead to an Age of Peace and Prosperity. It’s the Right Thing to Do.
• Tom Harris Considers Defecting to the Tories
• Best. Protest. Ever.
• Google Blogsearch Incoming Links Useless
• Don’t Fight Piracy, Embrace It.
• Lord Elvis predicts a Riot
• Quote of the Day: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Comes to England
• Adolf Hitler is no name for a child
• Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
• Brown’s Attention Surplus and Hyperactivity Disorder (ASHD)
• The Slightly Uncomfortable Chair Collection
• Hallelujah: Good Music in the Charts Again!
• Jim Carrey: The Existential Clown
• The Biggest Fraudster in History
• No, Paul McCartney isn’t very good, actually
• Liberals and Lefties and Whiskers on Kittens
• Ideology Is Death
• No Stevenote at Macworld?
• The calculus of Caffeine consumption
• HugeURL
• While Detroit Slept
• Fun With BASIC
• Crunch Here
• What to do about Zimbabwe?
• Poll Position
• Very few prizes for being right
• Saving the Economy with Inspirational Speeches
• What, will these hands ne’er be clean?
• And they All Lived Miserably Ever After
• The Irony of the Caped Crusader
• Emergency rescue plan for British motor industry
• Government Projects Should be Judged on Merit
• That Sounds Like Me…
• As With Northern Rock, So With Britain
• ‘Broken Windows Theory’ applied to internet forums
• Cheesey Christmas
• The Inadequacy of Mobile Phone Manufacturers
• Love Thy Neighbour, and All That
• Blue Eyes: Forget Obama, Listen to ze Germans
• Completely Crackers
• Britain’s External Debt 2.5x Higher Than Any Other G7 Country
• Status Message.
• Save the Economy, Save the World
• Perspective on Labour’s Welfare Reforms
• Daniel Finkelstein Urges Brown to Call an Election
• Climate change campaigners, like tax men, target the middle classes
• Global Warming Sceptic Bingo
• Boris Takes A Stand Against Liberal Racism
• Marks Any Musings: Proud of My MP
• David Jones Expresses His Support For HIPs
• Top Ten Tips For Making Awesome Viral Videos
• Does David Cameron Have Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government?
• Internet Censorship and Child Pornography
• The Blog Post I Wanted to Write
• The Credit Crunch Isn’t Affecting the Online Adultery Market
• Coffee House: Tackling the Evil of Idleness
• ConservativeHome Attacks CCHQ Spending
• Leave Those Eggs Alone, Sir
• Slow News Day
• The Baddies Are Winning
• What Part of ASBO Don’t I Understand?
• The Perils of Christmas Shopping
• Apple Removes Poorly-Worded Anti-Virus Support Page
• Links, Zwei. (Or: Self-Centred Blogging on Blogging. Again.)
• I Don’t Know What the Worst Thing About This Story Is
• Outrageous Outrage at the Whopper Virgins Taste Test Challenge
• More Than One Kind of Abuse.
• Eddie Izzard Explains Why He’s For Labour, and I Explain Why I’m for the Conservatives.
• Sion Simon MP is a Disgusting Excuse for a Politician
• The Queen: Not Amused
• Woolworths Website Woes
• Police Brutality or Drunken Revelry?
• That’s not really urging… More of a Suggestion.
• Tory MP Uses Child Slave Labour for Party Political Work
• Courageous Sucking
• Would Libertarianism Lead to More Baby Ps?
• Sterling is warning the government and the MPC
• Beating Blogger’s Block
• More to life
• Go Green For Damian
• 10,000+ Apps for the iPhone
• Why the Damian Green Affair Matters
• Martin Bright has no Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government, Either
• All Hail Prime Minister Brown – Or Else
• Mugabenomics in Britain: It’s Official
• A. Tory isn’t donating anything to Alex Hilton

Nov

• Vote on a Motion of No Confidence
• Don’t Quit, Snuffy!
• Help Required: Can the Blogosphere Make A Difference?
• How about asking your readers?
• Gordon Brown’s Downfall – The prequel
• No major demand for Identity Cards
• The Worst Scam On Earth
• What’s Going On With Damien Green?
• This is a Really Pointless Post.
• This isn’t just ready-made microwaveable Christmas dinner for Four…
• Blue Eyes: Democracy Isn’t Just Elections
• Countering Cudgels With Rapiers
• Quote of the Day: John Redwood on Bank Bullying
• Speaking of Massive Public Sector Cuts…
• We Don’t Have To Pay Brown’s Debt Back After All!
• Patently Rages Against the New Labour Machine
• The questions on everybody’s lips
• They used to play this game on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue
• Andrew Lilico thinks Britain is bust
• Why does anyone listen to that Toynbee woman?
• Bloggers continue to go where journalists fear to tread
• The Other Value Added Shoe Drops
• We should do this to Northern Rock…
• Real Dan Lyons Stops Blogging
• The Conservative Party’s National Debt Counter
• Real Cuts in Public Services Will Be Gordon Brown’s Legacy
• Pre-Budget Report Debate is Better Late Than Never
• You wouldn’t catch me wearing that…
• It’s great pupils, not great teachers, that make great schools
• Prize for best comment on the pre-Budget Report goes to David Jones MP
• Gambling Our Economy
• Alistair Darling Doesn’t Seem to be Planning on Paying Back This Debt
• Tom Harris Remains Confused
• Guido Agrees With Boris on the Immigrant Amnesty
• The Return of the Green Eyed Monster
• The First Rule Of Left Wing Blogging Is: You Do Not Mention the Tax Cut
• Climate Change could prevent a coming ice age
• David Cameron’s Key Messages
• When your child is 15, it’s too late to teach them respect
• The Atlas of Government Spending
• A Letter, From A Tory
• Tom Harris Seems Confused
• Test Post, Please Ignore
• Not All Christians Are Jesus Freaks
• Whatever the Outcome, We Should Have an Election
• Brown Predictions Plotted Against Reality
• The Tories may not be allowed to expose Blair’s Lies over Iraq
• The Trainspotting School of Economics
• ConservativeHome Says ‘Game On’
• 10 Men Go for a Beer: How the Tax System Works
• Blue Eyes sticks up for capitalism and free enterprise
• ‘Sharing the Burdens of Recession’ Meme Picking Up Steam
• Becoming a master takes at least 10,000 hours
• Sums, Cuts, Savings and Hypocrisy
• Boris Johnson blames Brown for the cost of his wine
• Anywhere But Watford…
• Trailer For JJ Abrams’ Star Trek
• The End of the Media Is Nigh
• Tom Harris Speaks For Everybody
• The Gordon Brown Yo-Yo
• It’d Be Nice If He Started Showing Some, Then
• Raedwald: Brown who?
• Unemployment: Not As Fun As It Sounds
• What’s Wrong With Being Partisan Anyway?
• By Order of the High Inquisitor…
• When Fiction Poses as Journalism
• It’s Not Really An Emergency, Either…
• What an Obama Presidency Means for Technology
• Unemployment and Social Justice
• A Direct Link Between Divorce and Child Abuse?
• Baby P’s Murderers Identified On Facebook
• How do I calculate an appropriate salary?
• How the Conservatives lose the next election
• Links.
• David Morrissey appears in Doctor Who Special
• Bushism Jokes Were Unfair
• Is This Really The Best We Can Do?
• Fiddling About
• Stop Calling Me Racist. Just Stop It.
• Don’t Mind Your Language
• Every Web Designer in the World Just Let Out A Hopeful Cry
• I Love Jon Stewart
• Friday Frivolity
• A Change Will Do You Good
• The People’s Republic Goes To War
• The New Millennium, Take Two?
• Now We Know America Can, Can We?
• There isn’t any more to say.
• Congratulations to President-Elect Obama
• Where Will You Be For Obama Night?
• Has Everyone Forgotten America’s REAL First Black President?

Oct

• Why 1984 Wasn’t Like Nineteen Eighty Four
• Cameron Needn’t Lift A Finger
• 12 Weeks Suspension is What Jonathan Ross Deserves
• Where Am I Going Right?
• Practically Perfect In Every Way
• Who Are You Calling A Republican?
• The Bigger the Bull…
• Reports of Brown’s Recovery Are Greatly Exaggerated
• Get Over Writer’s Block
• INTJ
• The Queen Puts McCain to Shame
• Housekeeping
• HM Treasury’s Weakest Links.
• The Guido Fawkes 1984 Irony
• George Osborne Hits the Nail on the Head
• These Rose-Tinted Glasses Give Me a Headache
• While I’m Away…
• Pride & Patriotism

Sep

• A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• America: Still Bonkers.
• Quote of the day
• Unfortunate Wording There, Nick…
• Is there a Correlation Between Consumption of Coca-Cola & Ritalin Perscriptions?
• An Amusing Juxtaposition…
• Becoming Clearer.
• Harry Potter and the Hypocritical Donation
• Guerrilla Parenting Meets Parentonomics
• Who will really be tested at Glenrothes?
• I Love the Smell of Credit in the Morning
• What’s In A Name?
• No Deal?
• Name the Conservative Party Blog
• 7 Years
• Now! that’s what I call Detective Work…
• Get Off My Doorstep.
• In praise of linking to Labour blogs
• Fixing the roof while the sun is shining
• Why Didn’t We See This Coming?
• Conference? What Conference?
• Funny Old Thing.
• Have the Republicans Gone Mad?
• A Ship That Leaks From the Top.

Aug

• A Convenient Untruth
• Was He Right to Tell the Truth?
• One Reason to Vote Republican
• The Undercover Economist.
• Imagine A Puddle.
• Subtle Divides
• It’s not what you spend
• Britain’s Economy: Launchpad Chicken?
• Sharing the costs of recession
• Honest, but unhelpful
• A Good Blog.
• Quote of the day
• The ‘Toff’ Tides Have Turned.
• Obamasession.
• The Curious Incident of Tom Harris MP, the Anonymous Commenter and the NHS.
• Where’s Gordo?
• Where’s Gordo?
• Oh, It Takes Me Back.
• Daniel Finkelstein Paints Over Cracks With His Rose-Tinted 20/20 Hindsight
• On Stones and Glass Houses.
• Why Policy Exchange Are Not Smith Institute.
• Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (But Words Will Hurt Forever)
• Blogging 101
• In Which Tom Watson Is Exposed As A Hypocrite
• Everybody Play The Games Of Love.
• Do You Know How I Got These Scars?
• Bam vs Mac: The Race Hasn’t Yet Begun.
• Playing Games.
• More On The Bloody Buses.
• Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside.
• Four Thoughts On Watford Conservatives
• A Full-Blown Blairite Conspiracy?
• That Decision Has Been Unmade.
• McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet.

Jul

• Vacuous & Without Merit
• No Rest for the Wicked.
• Quote of the Day
• Magic Moments.
• How Hard Will Lib Dems Push Labour?
• The New Politicians
• Don’t Bait the Catholics.
• What Can Watford Conservatives Do?
• How British is Obama?
• My Top Ten Blogs Vote.
• The Case For Open Leadership Elections.
• What Is He Doing With His Hands?
• Let the Gloating Commence.
• Glasgow Gives Gordon Grief
• Smooth Transition.
• Deliberately Misunderstanding.
• Pedantry, Pedantry, They All Have It In For Me.
• WALL•E
• For the Budding Typographers.
• Muphry Has Caused Many A Downfall
• On Coffee.
• In Which I Am Exposed As A Hypocrite.
• Technologic.
• A Fitting Image
• A Chav By Any Other Name.
• Very Little Blogging Today
• Being in Opposition is Very Much Like Making Love to a Beautiful Woman.
• Eternally Maternal.
• Driving Miss Crazy.
• The iPhone App Store.
• The Other Role of the Internet in Politics.
• Developing Scotland.
• Over-Complicated.
• Get Over Your Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
• Somebody Check On That Flan.
• This One Goes Out To Gordon…
• What’s the Glaswegian Strategy?
• I Always Wondered What He Meant…
• Harriet Harman Tackles Knife Crime
• Are The Tories Expecting An Election?
• We Believe In Nothing.
• A Noble Ending?
• Doctor Who Final Episode Bingo
• Comment Columns Continue Criticising Cameron’s Conservatives

Jun

• Learning Curves.
• Crushed by the Weight of the Argument.
• Who Are Davis’s Main Opponents?
• The Choice Problem
• Russell T. Davies is a B*****d
• Narrate Me Down From Here!
• Supporting Writers and Composers.
• Flan, Meet Cupboard.
• Let Them Have Pay.
• Is Cameron Losing the Media?
• Never Good
• Bad Wolf
• Overshadowing Dave
• Go Lucky
• Man Gets Windows Vista to Work With Printer
• What’s Left of New Labour?
• Lisbon Treaty Petition
• Death By Success
• Johnathan Freedland Admits He Was Wrong.
• Refer Your Enda.
• Sivad Divad
• Conspiracy & Controversy.
• This One Goes Out To Iain & John
• A Smile on a Dog.
• Copyright © Sharpe’s Opinion.
• The Irish Referendum.
• There Was No Precedent For What Happened Today.
• David Davis Resigns.
• Please Ensure You Have All Your Personal Belongings With You Before Leaving the Train.
• Love 2 the 9’s.
• The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
• Should Britain Join The Euro?
• You Wait for Ages for One to Come Along…
• Summing Up Gordon.
• Barack Obama Holds the Future in His Hands.
• Gordon Brown’s Real Problem.

May

• British Names For British Places
• Vituperative, and Not Edifying.
• Wherein We Push the Boundaries of Interest Concerning Abortion Statistics.
• The Noes Have It
• Even American Journalists Are Completely Mad.
• An Abortive Argument
• The Pundit’s Plot
• Electoral Snipers.
• Morning.