Splitters

"It seems to me that the left-wing blogosphere is as knackered as Gordon Brown’s poll ratings..."  POLIS director Charlie Beckett experiences a Judean People's Front moment as he watches left-of-centre bloggers at a meeting. Just in case conservative scribblers feel too smug about all this, Beckett can't help asking himself whether "the blogosphere is a place where political activists go to play instead of to effect real political change."  A fair question. He adds a mildly sceptical footnote about the American netroots as well.