{"id":1577,"date":"2004-11-25T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/11\/25\/david_blunkett_policy_maker"},"modified":"2004-11-25T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T17:11:06","slug":"david_blunkett_policy_maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/11\/25\/david_blunkett_policy_maker","title":{"rendered":"David Blunkett policy maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Register<\/a> has linked this marvellous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwghlm.co.uk\/other\/blunkett.php\">David Blunkett policy generator<\/a> page &#8211; a site which can generate &#8220;draconian rhetoric, whenever you need it&#8221;.  It may generate real Plonkett policy.  (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/disruptive.org.uk\/2004\/11\/25\/david_blunkett_policy_maker.html\">Roger Whittaker<\/a> at Planet SUSE.)<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of Plonkettry, have a read of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article.php?id=5308\">this article<\/a> in the latest Spectator (this is a Tory magazine, by the way) about how some guy was arrested and is being prosecuted for carrying a Swiss Army knife in his briefcase!  Pretty scary stuff.  (Registration required, free.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register has linked this marvellous David Blunkett policy generator page &#8211; a site which can generate &#8220;draconian rhetoric, whenever you need it&#8221;. It may generate real Plonkett policy. (Hat tip: Roger Whittaker at&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}