Nick Hogan Freed by the Blogosphere
Nick Hogan, the publican who let his drinkers smoke, is a free man tonight, back behind the bar rather than behind bars, thanks to blog readers and libertarians who raised the £8,664.50 to spring him from jail.
Anna Raccoon has the full story, Old Holborn organised the fund raising and Guido was more than happy to publicise it. Within hours co-conspirators had raised thousands to spring him from jail.
Nick Hogan is once more in the bosom of his family, able to support his wife Denise and their children, instead of being locked up with violent criminals.
A happy ending thanks to the generosity of blog readers…
UPDATE : Guy News was there and has footage of the cash being delivered to the jail by Old Holborn. (Contact Emily.Nomates@GuyNews.TV for syndication rights).
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Ashcroft’s commercial links to ConservativeHome, PoliticsHome and Iain Dale are getting a lot of coverage, not least in the 
Guido has identified £10,596,751 in non-dom donations to the Labour Party from donors who have avoided paying UK taxes, that is an average of £16,403 per constituency. There are, as Lord Paul himself says, more donations and donors not yet identified. If donors had to pay taxes at the higher rate of 40% like ordinary voters the exchequer would have not been cheated of £7,064,500.
There is growing resentment in some quarters with Michael Ashcroft, the feeling is that his Lordship has unnecessarily made difficulties for the Tories by waiting till this late moment to come clean.














