Today spiked-online published my response to New Labour's draconian proposals to make parents potentially pay for their children's stroppy behaviour at school. Not so much 'education, education, education' as 'detention, detention, detention'.
A few weeks previously, I reviewed Dana R. Fisher's brilliant analysis on outsourced activism for the Spiked Review of Books. The kind words on Activism, Inc can be found in the Treating Voters As Instruments piece.
The week before, my review of Richard Dawkins 'The Enemies of Reason' (see previous entry) made it into the Guardian's 'Best of The Web' chart (straight in at number 2), while I made the dizzying heights of being interviewed for BBC Radio Wales in the process. A few bloggers, meanwhile, concentrated their ire more on me questioning the 'CO2 = Global Warming' mantra than any verbal projectiles aimed at Dawkins himself.
Curiously enough myself and spiked's editor, Brendan O'Neill, thought my piece on Doreen Lawrence published 8th August would cause a ripple of some sort. Alas, it sank in the proverbial cyber-ocean without a trace. Still, my piece mischeviously slating dopeheads did have weed evangelists skinning up the bile on the blogfront. Who'd have guessed they'd have the energy?
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