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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
It was just two days ago that the Twittersphere welcomed veteran leftie Tony Benn with open arms. "National treasures are a hit on Twitter!" said JonathanDreamer . "Legendary political diarist on twitter!" proclaimed pascal_venier . And Amandita tried to rally troops: "Can we get @tonybenn past 1,000 followers by midnight?" These dreams are now all in tatters, as Labour MP Tom Watson...
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LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
[twitter] Tony Benn is on Twitter … ‘I have been waiting for my website to be updated for a while. I feel this could be a decent stop gap. It is a little like a blog.’
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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
More evidence of the power of Twitter. Tony Benn has now signed up to the medium I think that he may have been a little surprised by its power This is something I will have to come back to. I have an early start. Thank you for the welcome. Truly inspirational
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Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
I see the Queen's Speech contained the news that there will be a bill brought forward to create open access for all members of the public to the coastlines of Britiain. I wonder if this means the Envitronment Secertary Hilary Benn has agreed with his Dad to remove the "no public footpath", "private garden" and "please do not trespass" signs at their family home of Stansgate Abbey Farm in Essex?...
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Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
So it turns out that the Twitter Tony Benn is an imposter. Jemima Kiss reveals the truth Labour MP Tom Watson has cruelly exposed @tonybenn as a fake. "I bought him a cup of tea today because he came in for the Queen's speech," explained Watson, the UK's first blogging MP, who had taken the opportunity to congratulate Great Britain's most prolific political diarist on joining Twitter....
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The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Yesterday, I blogged about the audiobook of the latest volume of Tony Benn’s diaries, an inspiring look at the life of a passionate, brilliant retired politician who refused to accept the invasion of Iraq as necessary or inevitable. Now iRoy reminds us that Benn isn’t just Britain’s longest-serving parliamentarian — he’s also an inventor, the creator [...]
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MicroShaft Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Who would have thought Tony Benn would have this to say when a Labour Government was in Power "It is a total breach of what accords the privileges of parliament and therefore, the electors. His computers have been searched, his e-mail has been frozen." He said that it was tantamount to a Contempt of Parliament. "Once police can interfere in parliament, then we're into a police state."Could...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Yesterday, I blogged about the audiobook of the latest volume of Tony Benn's diaries, an inspiring look at the life of a passionate, brilliant retired politician who refused to accept the invasion of Iraq as necessary or inevitable. Now iRoy reminds us that Benn isn't just Britain's longest-serving parliamentarian -- he's also an inventor, the creator of the "backbencher" ("a rucksack...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Yesterday, I blogged about the audiobook of the latest volume of Tony Benn's diaries, an inspiring look at the life of a passionate, brilliant retired politician who refused to accept the invasion of Iraq as necessary or inevitable. Now iRoy reminds us that Benn isn't just Britain's longest-serving parliamentarian -- he's also an inventor, the creator of the "backbencher" ("a rucksack...
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Yesterday, I blogged about the audiobook of the latest volume of Tony Benn’s diaries, an inspiring look at the life of a passionate, brilliant retired politician who refused to accept the invasion of Iraq as necessary or inevitable. Now iRoy reminds us that Benn isn’t just Britain’s longest-serving parliamentarian — he’s also an inventor, the creator [...]
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The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Apparently, @tonybenn who has been Twittering all week isn't really Tony Benn. As if anybody could seriously think that the great man would fall for such inconsequential nonsense. Benn is (as the video clip demonstrates) is a fan of Youtube and web journalism as ways of 'speaking truth to power', but the idea that someone who has sat down with tea, pipe and tape recorder for fifty...
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Good Read (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
Online services operate in a free market, says Bill Thompson, but more could be done to make them truly free. Twitter, despite the attention it receives around the place with its high-profile users like Stephen Fry and now Tony Benn, is not the only micro-blogging service out there. I quite like Tumblr, and Stumbleupon does something useful, while BrightKite links notes and photos to...
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The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
... on Twitter. UPDATE : Labour MP @tom_watson just messaged on twitter - “ Just been chatting to tony benn. Says he’s never heard of twitter!” UPDATE 2: @richardbranson as per comments is confirmed see this blog post on his 2000th twitter follower. John Cleese ( @johncleese ) One of the comedy brains behind Monty Python, now living in the US and popping back to Blighty for the delightfully...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Last week, after the arrest of Damian Green, the former MP Tony Benn gave an interview on the World at One in which he said the police decision to raid Green's office at Westminster was almost certainly in breach of the sessional orders passed by the House of Commons every year. Benn even quoted from the sessional orders – "if … any person has been tampering with any witness,...
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A Conservative's blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
I note that the political implications of the arrest of Damian Green are growing by the hour. It started as outright horror on the opposition benches, with both David Cameron and Nick Clegg coming out strongly, followed by people like Tony Benn (Viscount Stansgate as was). Well over the weekend whilst there has been briefing by the police against Damian Green (who is going to investigate...
