Tim Ireland

I'm really enjoying this (scroll down to the two screenshots from Draper's blog).

Remind me again to never piss Timbles off.

Anyway - working on a couple of things atm, so will be back soon.

In the meantime,  keep your eyes on the below regarding the very unpleasant treatment that union reps for RMT cleaners are experiencing at the hands of the charming Metronet. There are several demos in support of the cleaners planned this week - they're mentioned in the text below (from Feminist Fightback):

'The attacks on RMT cleaners' reps on the underground continues, with another rep suspended without pay and threatened with dismissal this Monday. Calls for Mary Oboakye to be reinstated will be amplified this week with an action at Metronet offices on Wednesday lunchtime.

Please come along to the following and mobilise as many people as you can for the actions:

MONDAY 26 JANUARY - 1.30PM - DEFEND PHILLIP, RMT CLEANER REP FROM DISMISSAL
Meet 1.30pm at WH Smiths at London Bridge, travel to the ISS Offices, 15 Park Vista, Greenwich for demo from 2.30pm

Phillip has worked on the underground for 7 years, but it is only since he became active as a union rep that employers have questioned his immigration status. Come along to the offices and make some noise before his hearing at 3pm.

WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY - 1PM - REINSTATE MARY, RMT CLEANERS REP, UNFAIRLY DISMISSED
1pm, RMT Demonstration at Metronet, Templar House, 81-87 High Holborn, WC1V 6NU. (2 minutes walk from Holborn station)

Mary's crime was to sit down after finishing  her work while she was waiting for the train doors to be opened. 3 days earlier, she had sustained an eye injury at work - but was denied sick pay and annual leave. We know she was targeted for her union activity and want to let Metronet know that we hold them responsible for the actions of their contractors. Mary must be reinstated!

FRIDAY 30 JANUARY - 6PM - RMT CLEANERS GRADE MEETING 1pm, WEA Offices, 70 Clifton Street, EC2A 4HB (5 mins walk from Old Street station) Speaker: Elaine Hefferman, Immigration Issues Advisor.'

Fantastic stuff from Tim Ireland in - ah, conversation with Derek Draper. Tim's absolutely right - and hits the nail very firmly on the head when he says that Draper wasn't even able to enter the spirit with a little bullshit and humour. Probably, that's where Draper will go arse over tit most spectacularly... although there is plenty of scope generally.

Anyway. Remind me never to piss Timbles off.

...is back on deck and blogging about the Alisher Usmanov controversy here. Add him to your links, my friends, and show Alisher the big finger.

See Chicken Yoghurt for the background to this one, and Alisher's remarkably useless attempt to silence bloggers...

Right image: courtesy of Beau Bo D'Or.

Craig Murray and other blogging greats are closed down by another rich tool who thinks he's above comment... check out Chicken Yoghurt for more...

Indymedia has the Craig Murray article about Alisher Usmanov that his overpaid lawyers at Schillings were contracted to wipe from history... bad buy of the century there, Alisher.

Right image: button from Mike Power's website. Brilliant.

You'll find a list of blogs linking to the story below (as of Thursday 27 September pm). You can get the code for this list from Chicken Yoghurt, so go ahead and add it to your site.

Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike Power, Jailhouse Lawyer, Suesam, Devil’s Kitchen, The Cartoonist, Falco, Casualty Monitor, Forever Expat, Arseblog, Drink-soaked Trots (and another), Pitch Invasion, Wonko’s World, Roll A Monkey, Caroline Hunt, Westminster Wisdom, Chris K, Anorak, Mediawatchwatch, Norfolk Blogger, Chris Paul, Indymedia (with a list of Craig Murray’s articles that are currently unavailable), Obsolete, Tom Watson, Cynical Chatter, Reactionary Snob, Mr Eugenides, Matthew Sinclair, The Select Society, Liberal England, Davblog, Peter Gasston Pitch Perfect, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe, Lunartalks, Tygerland, The Crossed Pond, Our Kingdom, Big Daddy Merk, Daily Mail Watch, Graeme’s, Random Thoughts, Nosemonkey, Matt Wardman, Politics in the Zeros, Love and Garbage, The Huntsman, Conservative Party Reptile, Ellee Seymour, Sabretache, Not A Sheep, Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, The People’s Republic Of Newport, Life, the Universe & Everything, Arsenal Transfer Rumour Mill, The Green Ribbon, Blood & Treasure, The Last Ditch, Areopagitica, Football in Finland, An Englishman’s Castle, Freeborn John, Eursoc, The Back Four, Rebellion Suck!, Ministry of Truth, ModernityBlog, Beau Bo D’Or, Scots and Independent, The Splund, Bill Cameron, Podnosh, Dodgeblogium, Moving Target, Serious Golmal, Goonerholic, The Spine, Zero Point Nine, Lenin’s Tomb, The Durruti Column, The Bristol Blogger, ArseNews, David Lindsay, Quaequam Blog!, On A Quiet Day…, Kathz’s Blog, England Expects, Theo Spark, Duncan Borrowman, Senn’s Blog, Katykins, Jewcy, Kevin Maguire, Stumbling and Mumbling, Famous for 15 megapixels, Ordovicius, Tom Morris, AOL Fanhouse, Doctor Vee, The Curmudgeonly, The Poor Mouth, 1820, Hangbitch, Crooked Timber, ArseNole, Identity Unknown, Liberty Alone, Amused Cynicism, Clairwil, The Lone Voice, Tampon Teabag, Unoriginalname38, Special/Blown It, The Remittance Man, 18 Doughty Street, Laban Tall, Martin Bright, Spy Blog The Exile, poons, Jangliss, Who Knows Where Thoughts Come From?, Imagined Community, A Pint of Unionist Lite, Poldraw, Disillusioned And Bored, Error Gorilla, Indigo Jo, Swiss Metablog, Kate Garnwen Truemors, Asn14, D-Notice, The Judge, Political Penguin, Miserable Old Fart, Jottings, fridgemagnet, Blah Blah Flowers, J. Arthur MacNumpty, Tony Hatfield, Grendel, Charlie Whitaker, Matt Buck, The Waendel Journal, Marginalized Action Dinosaur, SoccerLens, Toblog, John Brissenden East Lower, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Peter Black AM, Boing Boing, BLTP, Gunnerblog, LFB UK, Liberal Revolution, Wombles, Focus on Sodbury…, Follow The Money, Freedom and Whisky, Melting Man, PoliticalHackUK, Simon Says…, Daily EM, From The Barrel of a Gun, The Fourth Place, The Armchair News Blog, Journalist und Optimist, Bristol Indymedia, Dave Weeden, Up North John, Gizmonaut, Spin and Spinners, Marginalia, Arnique, Heather Yaxley, The Whiskey Priest, On The Beat, Paul Canning, Martin Stabe, Mat Bowles, Pigdogfucker, Rachel North, B3TA board, Naqniq, Yorkshire Ranter, The Home Of Football, UFO Breakfast Recipients, Moninski , Kerching, e-clectig, Mediocracy, Sicily Scene, Samizdata, I blog, they blog, weblog, Colcam, Some Random Thoughts, Bel is thinking, Vino S, Simply Jews, Atlantic Free Press, Registan, Filasteen, Britblog Roundup #136, Scientific Misconduct Blog, Adam Bowie, Duncan at Abcol, Camera Anguish, A Very British Dude, Whatever, Central News, Green Gathering, Leighton Cooke (224), , Skuds’ Sister’s Brother, Contrast News, Poliblog Perspective, Parish Pump, El Gales, Noodle, Curly’s Corner Shop, Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft, otromundoesposible, Richard Stacy, Looking For A Voice, News Dissector, Kateshomeblog, Writes Like She Talks, Extra! Extra!, Committee To Protect Bloggers, Liberty’s Requiem, American Samizdat, The Thunder Dragon, Cybersoc, Achievable Life, Paperholic, Creative-i, Raedwald, Nobody’s Friend, Lobster Blogster, Panchromatica (251), Back off, man…, Dan Hardie, Krusenstern, Brendadada, Freace, Boriswatch, Fork Handles, Chris Applegate, Christopher Glamorgan, West Virginia Rebel’s Blog, Instapundit, Powerpymes, iDiligence Forum, Gizmotastic, Demos, Gary Andrews, Neweurasia , Never Trust a Hippy, sub specie aeternitatis, Bananas in the Falklands, The Sharpener, Virtual Light, Stu News, Scraps of Moscow, Danivon, As A Dodo, La Russophobe, PJC Journal, Mick Fealty’s Brassneck, dead brains don’t dance, A Comfortable Place, Bamblog, Robert Amsterdam, The Customer, No Longer at Ease, Rachel-Catherine, Humaniform, Mike Rouse, Chesus Yuste, anticapitalista, Aderyn Cân, Ulla’s Amazing Wee Blog (294), Ross200, Disruptive, Internazionale.it, The Obscurer, A Lefty Down Under, Things I Learned or Made Up, Pickled Bushman, Persons Unknown (302).