Welcome to the Blog

I've been mentioned by the always thought-provoking Drake over at The Edge of England's Sword so I'd better get ready for visitors to this day-old blog. I feel a bit like a guy who's having the in-laws over to stay just before finishing the decorating but I'll take any publicity I can get.

It might help if I explain a little bit about the blog. After a long period of lurking and occassional commenting on other people's blogs I've started to engage more on them and after I had to register on Blogger to comment on Iain Dale's site, it was the logical next step to take. I was going to call it the Freedom Files, but then luckily had second thoughts and decided that a) I wasn't that pretentious and b) I wouldn't be any more consistant in my support of freedom than all the conservative freedom types. So what do you have.

I'm a Labour Party member and despite my laziness, occassional activist so I will be partisan. However I will have a pot-shot at my own side if warranted, I hope I'll be fair on this site. If you agree with me, that's cool, if you don't that's just as good, if you're a politics geek, then that's wonderful, we'll have a lot in common. The basic rule is to be polite, to me, to fellow commenters and to politicians of all stripes. One thing I believe passionately is that almost all politicians are in politics because they want to help make people's lives better, you may disagree with their views, but never doubt their motives.

It's particularly apt at the moment when all the things my generation thought about Thatcher and the Conservative Government in the 1980s and early 90s are being revoiced by conservatives themselves about Blair and the Labour Government. Exactly the same sentiments are being raised by the Countryside Alliance now as the National Union of Mineworkers then. In 1985 I belived that Thatcher would never relinquish power peacefully, and I see now that the same claims are being expressed today. Mind you, I do have the excuse of being 13 at the time.

But it's not all politics here, the DM in my name stands for Dungeon Master, the name given to the referee and creator of a Dungeons and Dragons game. Even more than politics, roleplaying is my passion, it's going to be relegated to second place in this blog only because the Star Wars (D20 or not D20) debate aside, it's not as controversial. So if you are totally confused by references to Attack Rolls, Saving Throws or Eldritch Bolts, then it's probably just a roleplaying post.

Welcome to my Blog, I hope you enjoy.