Items #2 The Diplomad covers most of the bases when it comes to the climate change industry, while in an interesting post on Highway 99, brought here via Austin Bay, the BBC's post-colonial leftist guilt trip is analysed for the wild ride of hypocrisy it has involved- on Iraqi WMD in this case. One can only marvel at how they got from Saddam- the West's 'Caliban', to Blair lied, people died. Chief target for investigation is Jeremy Paxman, most refreshingly. It includes a classic opening to a blogpost, in my opinion:

'While I was trying to find out whether BBC reporter and presenter Jeremy Paxman had explicitly endorsed the idea that HIV is a manufactured virus...I came across a new 2002 edition of his book, 'A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical & Biological Warfare'...'

There it is: investigative, interested, radical- just the way things should be.