Barnbrook suspended from Barking & Dagenham Council, made to go on ethics training

Richard Barnbrook has finally been suspended for a month from Barking & Dagenham Council for lying about the number of knife murders in his area. Tory Troll has more, including the full set of sanctions, which mention ethincs training. Ethics and someone from the BNP? Can you say 'cognitive dissonance'? Barnbrook probably can, but only with great diffculty.

The tabloids and right wing extremism

Just who are these blackshirted fellows?
The relationship between tabloid reporting and the increase in the BNP's popularity is an interesting one to look at.

Unmoderated comments - a way to make papers even less responsible for clarification?

Jamie Sport has a great article up at MailWatch, in which he looks at the problems advertisers say they'll have in paying for adverts on the Mail website if the paper allows potentially controversial unmoderated comments.

Holiday

I'm always on bloody holiday. YES! Anyway, I'm off for a couple of weeks. Again. See you on the flipside, suckers!*

Here are a couple of clips. If I get a faraway look on my face and stare off into the middle distance, and you're tempted to ask, "what are you thinking?" - it's this. (Below the jump).