Blogwatch

Yes, it's been awoken from its hibernating slumber...

Phill of Danger! High Postage, whose acquaintance I had the pleasure to make last night, is aggrieved that those scallywags and scoundrels at the Metro have plagiarised without permission his feature for the BBC website about Birmingham's refurbished Electric Cinema, which reopens its doors tonight. And rightly so - cheeky bastards. Incidentally, the Electric Cinema is shaping up to be a prime subject for the SWSL Reasons To Be Cheerful series - watch this space.

Elsewhere:

Vaughan tries his hand at political commentary - "A bearded cabinet minister, renowned as a no-nonsense, hardline political bruiser with the sort of right-wing policies you never dreamed you'd see from the Labour Party, has resigned. He has been swiftly replaced by a bearded cabinet minister, renowned as a no-nonsense, hardline political bruiser with the sort of right-wing policies you never dreamed you'd see from the Labour Party";

Jonny B has a very specific matter for the incoming Home Secretary to, ahem, clear up - "If Mr Blunkett had a fault, it was that he concentrated too much on the glamour parts of his job, like prisons and tanks at Heathrow and stuff, and did fuck all about the issue of dog shit. As regular readers know, I hate dog shit. If you offered me a choice as to whether I would want Dido rubbed into my face or dog shit, I would choose Dido every time. That's how much I hate it";

Paul is justifiably appalled by the ECB's decision to grant Sky exclusive rights to show live cricket from 2006 - "English cricket – it's on the rise, people are becoming interested again, the national team are winning, Twenty20 has revitalised the domestic game and from 2006 only those people with Sky will be able to watch it live. Genius. Only the ECB could find a way of screwing up the most promising climate for expanding the cricketing fanbase for years";

Nick enthuses about Can's Ege Bamyasi and Girls Aloud's What Will The Neighbours Say?;

and Angelo defends those authors nominated for the Bad Sex Awards, this year won by Tom Wolfe - "I realise that these authors are not always trying to be serious and I've had enough terrible sex to know that it's not always the way we'd like it to be in reality".