Let’s be fair to Jules Stenson here, he makes it very clear that he didn’t go on Newsnight to talk about the terrible things that he, personally, was responsible for. He didn’t go on there to defend the newspaper that he worked for who hacked into the voicemails of a murdered teenager in order to try and make money. He went on Newsnight to try and make the Guardian look bad by quibbling over details of things that he hadn’t actually looked into properly. And who can blame him for that, eh?

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Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask

Lovely interview with the veteran god of being utterly brilliant in every way, Alan Moore.

I miss the Britain of compassion and public ownership. Can we have it back please?

Ian Martin on being a reactionary socialist. Brilliant.

'I refuse to lie to children'

Beautiful interview with a grouchy, but utterly charming Maurice Sendak.

The 80mph speed limit is a waste of time

Charlie Brooker on a brilliant form over the changes to the speed limit.

Julian Assange's battles threaten to overshadow WikiLeaks' work

There’s an extraordinary exchange showing Assange’s attitude to Afghan informants in this Washington Post article:

“Well, they’re informants,” he said, according to the journalists’ account. “So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.”

Wow.

Our best track of 2010: Robyn - Dancing On My Own

Excellent post by Peter Robinson outlining the potentially disturbing undertones of the great pop track.

James Murphy on Guardian Music Weekly

I love LCD Soundsystem, and really, LCD Soundsystem are James Murphy. However, I found the interview with Murphy on this week’s Music Weekly podcast rather annoying. Yes, things have changed since he put together his music collection, but that’s the way the world goes. Indeed, I find this whole obsession that DJs and men of a certain age have with vinyl to wear me down. I get the romance of it all, but it’s worth remembering that the sound of vinyl is far from perfect, it’s huge and annoying to store, and it degrades without having to do much to it at all. MP3s might be a different way of consuming music, but are they really worse? They give music fans a means of exploring whole expansive genres of music they may never have listened to in an amazingly short period of time, and services like Spotify just make that process even easier.

That said, everything the contributors are all spot on about LCD themselves. They’re an amazing band, throwing the towel in at the absolute top of their careers, and there are a fair few bands that I wish that had occurred to.