Anthony Painter

OK, E8Voice is finally dead. I launched my new blog- which contains the entire archive from E8Voice- at www.anthonypainter.co.uk.
Anyone who links to e8voice.blogspot.com then I'd be really grateful if you could change your link to www.anthonypainter.co.uk. the content on this site will not be updated though it will remain live for the time being....

When Labour ditched its old Clause IV- which was the right thing to do- did it ditch too much? I am increasingly having to pinch myself when I observe some of things that are now happening such as the public ownership of High Street banks. The events...

I used tripadvisor.co.uk for the first time this weekend. The main bulk of its contents are generated by its users just as is the case with Wikipedia.
However, popular though it is I won't be using it for a very good reason. Opinion requires a certain stock of trust whereas fact is just fact. In the case of tripadvisor.co.uk you have no idea who the reviewers are. The law of averages doesn't work when...

So the US Ambassador to Afghanistan has put a spanner in the works of mission creep in Afghanistan. I don't know why the US military and diplomatic corps don't just publish all their advice on the internet, it seems to end up there in days anyway.
General Eikenberry's memo cautions against a further troop build-up in the face of the continuing dysfunctionality of the Karzai regime. MSNBC reports it as follows:...