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The Sharpe's Opinion Archives
2009
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
2008
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.
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