Jerome Armstrong of MyDD posts a defence of activist blogging against the "campus blogethicists" who criticised him and Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos for taking paid roles with the Howard Dean campaign. He argues that he is at war in a politicl arena with a Republican machine that will do…

"A conversation, not a monologue." "The time for diplomacy is now." There could be little to disagree with in the first day of Condoleezza Rice's hearing before the senate committee that will decide if she is fit to replace Colin Powell as US secretary of state. It was perhaps a…

Add a global television audience to the foreign policy decisions of George Bush's first term in office and there can be no doubt that today's inauguration ceremony will be the most widely watched in the history of the US presidency.

Belle de Jour's book has hit the bookshelves at last. Belle has answered a selection of the questions you asked, plus a few of my own: click on the read more link at the bottom of this post to read her replies.

The revelation that Prince Harry went dressed as a Nazi – a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps to be precise – to a friend's fancy dress party will doubtless provoke reams of comment.

These are the words of Joe Gordon, who lost his job at a branch of the Waterstone's in Edinburgh on January 5. He says the book chain claimed he'd "brought the company into disrepute" by occasionally writing about workplace matters on his blog, The Woolamaloo Gazette and using the phrase…