Comments on: Ridiculing the right to avoid our own failings http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/ Journalist based in Barcelona Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ed http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1189 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:18:58 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1189 I think the former – misinformed rants or opinions based on hand picked evidence without looking at the whole picture. Blogs pick and choose evidence when and where it suits. It also annoys me that so few bloggers get out there and do stuff at the grassroots..myself included but I am trying. But probably I have some in-built thing about the challenge of my beliefs but then again..I usually do not know enough about the argument, I am the first to admit that. Also, it is not so much the subject matter it is the way it is presented as an obsolute.

]]> By: Nick http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1188 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:55:57 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1188 Well I appreciate you reading and contributing particularly because you frequently help pull-me-up on certain points. But what do you find annoying about most of the blogs you read? Is it because you think in the main, they’re just badly misinformed moans and rants, or is it because they occasionally challenge fundamental heartfelt views and assumptions you have about certain issues and it provokes some kind of “angry” response?

By the way, I only took a quick look at Guido Fawkes (which I know is a hugely popular political blog in the UK) and it seems like it’s mainly concerned with tattle about party politics. I don’t think this is particularly productive because it just contributes to the charade that we have a functioning party political democracy in parliament. If the major political parties had distinctly opposing views, this would be useful as a forum of debate but since they are both mainly undermined by corporate power, I don’t see much point in it. It’s like the Tony Benn quote when he retired from the House of Commons “to concentrate on politics”.

]]> By: Ed http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1187 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:55:57 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1187 I guess I generally am not a big fan of blogs! but I do read yours and a few others but more often than not I find them a bit annoying..but maybe that is what I like about them. Some confrontation hahaha! Guido Fawkes blog has some disgusting comments about people..in my opnion not really good debate just calling names etc. Lot of hot air.

]]> By: Nick http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1186 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:49:41 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1186 Well there’s definitely plenty to attack on the centre left. Reading through his blog, I don’t see anything particularly “nasty” in his posts:

http://order-order.com/

If the people that leave comments get nasty about New Labour et all that that’s not really his fault.

]]> By: Anonymous http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1181 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:08:54 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1181 Guido Fawkes generates some pretty nasty attacks on the centre left.

]]> By: maplesyrup21 http://nicholasmead.com/2009/10/30/ridiculing-the-right-to-avoid-our-own-failings/#comment-1173 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:56:39 +0000 http://nicholasmead.com/?p=1228#comment-1173 interesting post

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