Tackling racism

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Writing a story about the BNP on a Sunday is a sure-fire way to guarantee your inbox is full of e-mails by the time you get into work on Tuesday containing some, um, trenchant views on multiculturalism.

Which is all par for the course, but if you will insist on sending me poorly-written diatribes on the "only political party that actually stands up for this country!!" [sic] at least set up a Gmail or Hotmail account or something, as presumably your employer didn't give you an e-mail address for such reasons. Not that I'm rising to the bait (ho ho).

I wouldn't normally write about football here...

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...but I couldn't even bring myself to walk past the Millennium Stadium on the way into work this morning after last night's woe.

I absolutely do not condone this...

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...I merely bring it to the public's attention to show the levels to which some people stoop in the name of comedy.

Separated at birth? 2

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Another AM lookalike, this one, admittedly, being particularly weak - Daily Show with Jon Stewart correspondent John Hodgman and South Wales Central AM David Melding. Actually, in the cold light of day they don't look that similar at all...

Why I have no links

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A few people have asked why this blog has no links, and whether it is indicative of me being rude or having no blogging etiquette, especially when the great and good have been kind enough to link to here.

Alas, although I am rude, that's not the reason - the fact is, this Movable Type blogging system which Trinity Mirror uses has no option to install a links panel on it, and from what I can see the only other option would be to include them in a post which would disappear as and when I updated.

I asked the folk in IT how I could include a list of links on the frontpage, and they suggested a roundabout route so complex and difficult they might as well have suggested I tried doing Chinese arithmetic whilst white water rafting, so eventually I admitted defeat and gave up.

That's the reason. If anybody out there with a better understanding of this kind of thing has any idea how I can put a list of links up, drop me an e-mail and I'll attempt to sort it out. Ta.

Press Gang

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Is there any truth in the rumour doing the rounds that, in the run up to May's Assembly Election, Labour AMs have been told all press releases must be cleared not only by the party's crack press corps in Cardiff, but also signed off by its media operations team in its Victoria Street HQ, London?

No idea. I did ask my comrade in Labour's Welsh press team yesterday, but he hasn't got back to me. Perhaps he is checking what the line is with London. Surely in these days of "clear red water" it can't be true?

PS Does it, indeed, even apply to MPs? It seems unlikely the Malcolm Tuckers of this world would give Kevin Brennan MP the go-ahead to have his press corps issue a release announcing his brother is to play Harold Wilson in a new play at the National Theatre, as they did yesterday...

Update: A response comes from Labour's Welsh HQ: "That is absolutely not the case".