Patrick Corrigan blogs about Belfast Pride. It’s great to see the Belfast politisphere overtly disowning Iris Robinson and her homophobia. Given that NI is one of the most homophobic places in Europe it’s not a minute too soon; although the linked study shows that we on the mainland have much work to do too. Perhaps signing this petition would be a start?

The Honourable Lady Mark Valladares has spotted some dodgy journalism in the Grauniad. There’s an interesting troll in the comments too, displaying all the hallmarks of conversational terrorism.

A Lanson Boy reports on the latest Tory finger-wagging. Apparently “Lad mags” encourage irresponsible behaviour among young men and promote a negative image of women, so instead of providing an alternative, the Tories want to tell people off for “reading” them.

Irony alert: in which I prove how sick I am of hearing about Iain Dale by posting about Iain Dale. YAY for unbridled ranting when half-asleep and nicotine deprived! Still, the results of the poll at the bottom are interesting. You’ll need to get your open IDs out, to vote and/or see the results, folks.

Stephen Fry has cross-posted the latest Dork Talk to his blog.

And finally, if there’s anybody out there not sick of Batman debate yet, Kevin Williamson didn’t like it one bit. And has some rather choice epithets to apply to those who did.