Create your own bus slogan!

Got to love the internet…want to create your own bus slogan, ‘atheist style’?
Then click here and have some fun! Absolutely brilliant…

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More Forgesian Thinking on the BBC

If last week there was a quote from this blog in the BBC News website on the Labour conference, this week is on Cameron’s speech to the Tory one. You can read it here at 14.51.

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Forgesian Thinking on the BBC (sort of)

A friend of mine has come across a quote from Forgesian Thinking on the coverage of the Labour conference on the BBC News website. It appears under my name (M Areu) rather than that of the blog’s. Still, exciting someone at the Beeb is reading this blog, even if is one of their interns.
We are [...]

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Sure like the limelight!

Iain Dale has released the final ranking on the top 100 UK political blogs. 1,140 votes in and Forgesian Thinking is made it in number 80. Not bad for a four months old blog!
Thank you again to everyone who voted for this blog. Hope everyone keeps enjoying reading it. More tomorrow.

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Honey, I’m home!

Hello there people! after spending the past few weeks in solitary confinement trying desperately to finish off my dissertation it feels good to be back in the real world. It feels even better when this morning trying to catch up with what was going on in the blogging world I almost fell off my chair. [...]

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Make history people!

Iain Dale has started to prepare his annual top 100 UK blogs ranking. This year the rules apparently are a bit more complicated than in previous years (this blog wasn’t around then).
First of all let me say is a great thing Iain is doing this. Encouraging healthy competition and promoting the UK blogosphere with these [...]

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On holidays

Yesterday I finally landed in Spain. It feels good to be home and out of London, though I forgot how hot it can get in my hometown in summer! (43 degrees at the moment, far from pleasant outside the water).
Well, as you can imagine blogging won’t be a priority this week. I will post if [...]

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A little help for government oversight

TheyWorkForYou is asking for volunteers to help match the text of Hansard with BBC Parliament video footage of House debates to be uploaded to their site. The idea is to provide a better video archive of Parliamentary debates all of them stored for good, unlike the 28 days storage provided by both Parliament and the [...]

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Are you popular? No, I’m more popular!

Is this time of the month isn’t it? when Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes show off their visitors to all of us mortals of the blogosphere. They got about a zillion visitors each and yes, we are all very jealous about it. But one month and a half into Forgesian Thinking I’m happy to report [...]

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Totally Forgesian

Seems like my subscription to Total Politics, the GQ of politics according to publisher Iain Dale, has started to pay off. Forgesian Thinking has made it to the magazine’s political blog directory under left wing blogs (guess that tag defines it better than Labour at the moment).
Today Total Politics, tomorrow Gordon Brown’s RSS feed!

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