Will Straw, the Director of Climate Change, Energy and Transport at the IPPR thinktank, has been selected to be Labour's parliamentary candidate for Rossendale and Darwen. Will and I had a friendly exchange of emails a few months ago and he seems very nice, although obviously our views on AGW (and no doubt quite a lot of other things) are somewhat different.
I was interested to see his literary outlet, Left Foot Forward, described in this piece as a popular blog. It's not one I follow nor even one that I come across that often, so I checked out its Alexa ranking. This turns out to be 33,000-ish or some 27,000 places below BH, a fact that makes me feel very important. Maybe I should apply to be an MP too.
Or have I been too rude about any party that would consider me?