Sharpe's Opinion

Jul

Jun

• I Love the Smell of Blog Posts in the Morning.
• The Great iPhone Tethering Disappointment.
• Anonymity, NightJack, and a Partial Defence of the Times
• In the Event of a Zombie Attack…
• The Problem With the Labour Rebels…
• Silver Linings
• Last Week in Links
• Not Talking About Politics
• A Party That Only Cares About Technique
• Suicide Squad – ATTACK!
• Untenable? He Doesn’t Know How to Spell the Word…
• VOTE! Otherwise Democracy Might Happen!
• Can’t Vote, Won’t Vote
• EXCLUSIVE: Cabinet Reshuffle Plans Revealed!
• The Ascension of Alan Johnson
• Gone Baby Gone
• Stupid Is as Stupid Does

May

• Labour in Third Place – I Can Haz Election Now Plz?
• What Is So Scary About the BNP?
• So, if Proportional Representation Weighs the Same as a Duck…
• 10 Fantasy Speakers
• How Would the Blogosphere Have Handled the Expenses Scandals?
• Donations Welcome
• The Five Stages of Liberal Conspiracy
• One Year on…
• Why Won’t Anyone Give Me an ID Card?
• 10 More Prime Ministers Who Would Be Better Than Gordon Brown
• Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Debate Which Followed My Recent Post About the Time I Went to My Local Lib Dems’ Website
• I Don’t Think ‘Digital Engagement’ Means What You Think It Means
• I Am One Unique Visitor.
• Sharpe’s Opinion Doesn’t Do Statporn…

Apr

• A Neighborhood’s Reputation: Gone in 360 Seconds
• A Small Victory.
• Could Have Been Worse
• Private Economics Tuition From Gordon Brown.
• Not Yet a Lib Dem
• In England, When the Grammar Nazis Came…
• Giving Up
• The Gunpowder Plot: Why the Conservative Party Fears Guido More Than You Think…
• Orwell. In the Study. With the Candlestick.
• G20 Protests Cancelled!

Mar

• Link Roundup – ‘Government Is a Farce’ Edition
• Down Keyboards, We’re Striking!
• Slow Day Today; Or: Alix Mortimer for the Win
• Baby Grand Now Available on the App Store
• This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government
• We Live in the Future
• Opinion Polls Are About as Useful as the Weather Report
• Vanity and Evil Penguins
• A Few Anecdotes About Children
• Fox Hunting Still Thriving
• I Was a Teenage Parent Once
• The Presidential British Film Library
• If You Don’t Have Children You Don’t Understand

Feb

• Total Perspective Vortex
• Baby Grand – The iPhone Piano for Children
• Photo of the Day
• Raedwald Is Wrong, Parris Is Wrong. The Commons Were Absolutely Right.
• A Person’s a Person, No Matter How Small.
• Stopping the Hate.
• Man Flu – A Creation of Sexist Women
• Darwinian Political Theory
• The Encounter
• In Which I Contradict My Free Market Principles and, in Doing So, Quote Extensively From Monty Python.
• No News Is Good News: Tizzy’s Take on Week 1
• No News Is Good News: Roundup, Week 1
• An Email I Really Didn’t Want to Receive
• Why Popular Opinion Is Nearly Always Wrong
• This Snow Is Awesome.
• That Most Quintessentially British of Pastimes
• No Conspiracy Here

Jan

• No News Is Good News: An Experiment.
• Spoken Word
• Access All Areas
• Forget FoI and Forget MPs Expenses: We Should Have ALL the Information
• Three Simple CSS Tricks for Websites and Blogs and the Beautification Thereof
• We Need a British Obama – But Race Is Not the Issue
• Bloody Servers.
• Not Dyslexic: A Self Fulfilling Prophecy
• An ‘Innovative’ Idea for Keynesian Splurge
• Positivity
• Why Do We Need All Those Buttons?
• Money (That’s What Bloggers Want)
• 993 Unread

Dec

• Merry Christmas
• Open Policies and Open Source Politics
• In Which a Universal Philosophical Truth Is Uncovered Through Search Engine Keywords
• Buying iPhones Will Lead to an Age of Peace and Prosperity. It’s the Right Thing to Do.
• Don’t Fight Piracy, Embrace It.
• Quote of the Day: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Comes to England
• Liberals and Lefties and Whiskers on Kittens
• Crunch Here
• What, Will These Hands Ne’er Be Clean?
• The Irony of the Caped Crusader
• Cheesey Christmas
• The Blog Post I Wanted to Write
• Slow News Day
• What Part of ASBO Don’t I Understand?
• Links, Zwei. (Or: Self-Centred Blogging on Blogging. Again.)
• More Than One Kind of Abuse.
• Eddie Izzard Explains Why He’s for Labour, and I Explain Why I’m for the Conservatives.
• Beating Blogger’s Block
• Why the Damian Green Affair Matters

Nov

• Vote on a Motion of No Confidence
• Help Required: Can the Blogosphere Make a Difference?
• How About Asking Your Readers?
• The Worst Scam on Earth
• The Other Value Added Shoe Drops
• Real Cuts in Public Services Will Be Gordon Brown’s Legacy
• Whatever the Outcome, We Should Have an Election
• The Trainspotting School of Economics
• Sums, Cuts, Savings and Hypocrisy
• Anywhere but Watford…
• The End of the Media Is Nigh
• What’s Wrong With Being Partisan Anyway?
• Unemployment and Social Justice
• Links.
• Bushism Jokes Were Unfair
• Is This Really the Best We Can Do?
• Fiddling About
• Stop Calling Me Racist. Just Stop It.
• Don’t Mind Your Language
• Every Web Designer in the World Just Let Out a Hopeful Cry
• I Love Jon Stewart
• Friday Frivolity
• A Change Will Do You Good
• The People’s Republic Goes to War
• The New Millennium, Take Two?
• Now We Know America Can, Can We?
• There Isn’t Any More to Say.
• Congratulations to President-Elect Obama
• Where Will You Be for Obama Night?
• Has Everyone Forgotten America’s REAL First Black President?

Oct

• Why 1984 Wasn’t Like Nineteen Eighty Four
• Cameron Needn’t Lift a Finger
• 12 Weeks Suspension Is What Jonathan Ross Deserves
• Where Am I Going Right?
• Practically Perfect in Every Way
• Who Are You Calling a Republican?
• The Bigger the Bull…
• Reports of Brown’s Recovery Are Greatly Exaggerated
• Get Over Writer’s Block
• INTJ
• The Queen Puts McCain to Shame
• Housekeeping
• HM Treasury’s Weakest Links.
• The Guido Fawkes 1984 Irony
• George Osborne Hits the Nail on the Head
• These Rose-Tinted Glasses Give Me a Headache
• While I’m Away…
• Pride & Patriotism

Sep

• A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• America: Still Bonkers.
• Quote of the Day
• Unfortunate Wording There, Nick…
• Is There a Correlation Between Consumption of Coca-Cola & Ritalin Perscriptions?
• An Amusing Juxtaposition…
• Becoming Clearer.
• Harry Potter and the Hypocritical Donation
• Guerrilla Parenting Meets Parentonomics
• Who Will Really Be Tested at Glenrothes?
• I Love the Smell of Credit in the Morning
• What’s in a Name?
• No Deal?
• Name the Conservative Party Blog
• 7 Years
• Now! That’s What I Call Detective Work…
• Get Off My Doorstep.
• In Praise of Linking to Labour Blogs
• Fixing the Roof While the Sun Is Shining
• Why Didn’t We See This Coming?
• Conference? What Conference?
• Funny Old Thing.
• Have the Republicans Gone Mad?
• A Ship That Leaks From the Top.

Aug

• A Convenient Untruth
• Was He Right to Tell the Truth?
• One Reason to Vote Republican
• The Undercover Economist.
• Imagine a Puddle.
• Subtle Divides
• It’s Not What You Spend
• Britain’s Economy: Launchpad Chicken?
• Sharing the Costs of Recession
• Honest, but Unhelpful
• A Good Blog.
• Quote of the Day
• The ‘Toff’ Tides Have Turned.
• Obamasession.
• The Curious Incident of Tom Harris MP, the Anonymous Commenter and the NHS.
• Where’s Gordo?
• Where’s Gordo?
• Oh, It Takes Me Back.
• Daniel Finkelstein Paints Over Cracks With His Rose-Tinted 20/20 Hindsight
• On Stones and Glass Houses.
• Why Policy Exchange Are Not Smith Institute.
• Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones (but Words Will Hurt Forever)
• Blogging 101
• In Which Tom Watson Is Exposed as a Hypocrite
• Everybody Play the Games of Love.
• Do You Know How I Got These Scars?
• Bam vs Mac: The Race Hasn’t Yet Begun.
• Playing Games.
• More on the Bloody Buses.
• Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside.
• Four Thoughts on Watford Conservatives
• A Full-Blown Blairite Conspiracy?
• That Decision Has Been Unmade.
• McCain Makes Historic First Visit to Internet.

Jul

• Vacuous & Without Merit
• No Rest for the Wicked.
• Quote of the Day
• Magic Moments.
• How Hard Will Lib Dems Push Labour?
• The New Politicians
• Don’t Bait the Catholics.
• What Can Watford Conservatives Do?
• How British Is Obama?
• My Top Ten Blogs Vote.
• The Case for Open Leadership Elections.
• What Is He Doing With His Hands?
• Let the Gloating Commence.
• Glasgow Gives Gordon Grief
• Smooth Transition.
• Deliberately Misunderstanding.
• Pedantry, Pedantry, They All Have It in for Me.
• WALL•E
• For the Budding Typographers.
• Muphry Has Caused Many a Downfall
• On Coffee.
• In Which I Am Exposed as a Hypocrite.
• Technologic.
• A Fitting Image
• A Chav by Any Other Name.
• Very Little Blogging Today
• Being in Opposition Is Very Much Like Making Love to a Beautiful Woman.
• Eternally Maternal.
• Driving Miss Crazy.
• The iPhone App Store.
• The Other Role of the Internet in Politics.
• Developing Scotland.
• Over-Complicated.
• Get Over Your Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
• Somebody Check on That Flan.
• This One Goes Out to Gordon…
• What’s the Glaswegian Strategy?
• I Always Wondered What He Meant…
• Harriet Harman Tackles Knife Crime
• Are the Tories Expecting an Election?
• We Believe in Nothing.
• A Noble Ending?
• Doctor Who Final Episode Bingo
• Comment Columns Continue Criticising Cameron’s Conservatives

Jun

• Learning Curves.
• Crushed by the Weight of the Argument.
• Who Are Davis’s Main Opponents?
• The Choice Problem
• Russell T. Davies Is a B*****D
• Narrate Me Down From Here!
• Supporting Writers and Composers.
• Flan, Meet Cupboard.
• Let Them Have Pay.
• Is Cameron Losing the Media?
• Never Good
• Bad Wolf
• Overshadowing Dave
• Go Lucky
• Man Gets Windows Vista to Work With Printer
• What’s Left of New Labour?
• Lisbon Treaty Petition
• Death by Success
• Johnathan Freedland Admits He Was Wrong.
• Refer Your Enda.
• Sivad Divad
• Conspiracy & Controversy.
• This One Goes Out to Iain & John
• A Smile on a Dog.
• Copyright © [Sic].
• The Irish Referendum.
• There Was No Precedent for What Happened Today.
• David Davis Resigns.
• Please Ensure You Have All Your Personal Belongings With You Before Leaving the Train.
• Love 2 the 9’s.
• The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
• Should Britain Join the Euro?
• You Wait for Ages for One to Come Along…
• Summing Up Gordon.
• Barack Obama Holds the Future in His Hands.
• Gordon Brown’s Real Problem.

May

• British Names for British Places
• Vituperative, and Not Edifying.
• Wherein We Push the Boundaries of Interest Concerning Abortion Statistics.
• The Noes Have It
• Even American Journalists Are Completely Mad.
• An Abortive Argument
• The Pundit’s Plot
• Electoral Snipers.
• Morning.