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> Tom Watson MP has a signed copy of Tony Benn's Free at Last!, which you have a chance to win in a competition Tom is running.
> A few days ago I posted an item with two stories about Sidney Morgenbesser. Chris at Crooked Timber put up another; and 'squeakyrat' in the CT comments box posted this one:
My favorite Morgenbesser crack is his answer to the allegedly "deep" philosophical question... "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Morgenbesser: "Even if there were nothing you'd still be complaining!"I love it!
> Josh Cherniss at Sitting on a Fence has also posted about Morgenbesser (scroll down to January 20). Josh is back posting energetically, after having taken some time out from it.
> Chris Brooke wants to know if there's anyone out there - out here - who doesn't like Alison Krauss. I don't suppose there's any menace in the question, but OK, I like her. On the other hand there are quite a few people in the same line of country (groan) whom I like more. So how did I do? And then... those who don't know Alison Krauss presumably don't like her. But presumably they also don't dislike her. Enough of that.
> Bobbie at Politx has A very long post about the BBC, companion to his earlier very long post about media bias. Bobbie proposes an explanation for the manner of the Beeb's coverage of the Iraq war.
> Oliver Kamm discusses Tony Benn, commenting aptly on the notorious interview with a certain 'powerful person'.
> Bill Sjostrom at Atlantic Blog asks why I treat the Guardian as my daily newspaper of choice. I've answered this question (after a fashion) once already, when it was put by Anthony of Plastic Gangster. See Dnoc dnoc dnoccing on Plastic's door (old site, October 7). To the elements of an answer I assembled there I would add these. (a) The Guardian is an excellent newspaper. (b) David Aaronovitch, Martin Woollacott, Polly Toynbee, Catherine Bennett, Simon Hoggart, Matthew Engel, Jim White, Nancy Banks Smith and other journalists I respect, and whose writing I enjoy, write for it, and until recently Julie Burchill of that ilk did. (c) What I don't like in it, which remains much, gives me material to blog about.