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Blog Politics
Not everyone is enjoying the success of some political weblogs. Iain Dale reports on how some blogs are making New Labour rather uncomfortable, while Guido turns his beady eye on the Home Office's attempts to monitor bloggers.
Would you believe that the Home Office has 12 blog "librarians" monitoring bloggers seven days a week? EURSOC gets through his Blogroll in half an hour and still has time to munch a croissant and coffee. What's the poor old British taxpayer forking out for here?
Whatever they're seeing, it worrys them. It's caused New Labour officials to huff and puff about "self regulation" (and worse) of blogs, while more sinister noises about regulation have been heard from figures like Alastair Campbell.
On a related issue, 18 Doughty Street posts MEP Syed Kamall's explanation of his efforts to slow the march of the EU's Television initiatives.
