Brassneck: blogging at the Telegraph…
I’ve just started a companion blog to Slugger at the Daily Telegraph: Brassneck. The idea is to try take a similarly dispassionate view of British and international politics, and try to get a view of what’s going on underneath the headlines. the blog is notionally after Brass Crosby a former Lord Mayor of London, who in the late 1771 was imprisoned in the Tower of London after releasing a printer brought before him for daring to publish the proceedings of Parliament. After considerable public agitation, he was released. His actions led directly to the recording of Hansard and the beginnings of openness and formal accountability. It’s the origin of the saying ‘As bold as Brass’. Often commuted to the cruder ‘Brass neck’.
Noticed that in the last week or so, Slugger isn’t pinging into northernirishblogs.co.uk … and is sorely missed from the mêlée of other posts.
Yep, we’re in the process of uploading a redesign of the site, and think some of the RSS feeds may have been disrupted. Normal service to resume as soon as possible.