Casting the net – Glancing over the pond


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
1:22 pm - January 31st 2008

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Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section.

Highlights
Daniel Finkelstein/Times – Are only left wing people allowed to have insights?
Da Fink treads the rickety rope-bridge of race in politics, and scores a cheap point en route.

Caroline Kennedy/NYT – A President Like My Father
This slipped under my radar until last night. JFK’s daughter on why Barack Obama is man who can inspire America again.

Matthew Yglesias/CiF – John Edwards’s indelible mark
Yglesias pays tribute to an honourable and visionary candidate steamrolled by fate.

Climate Change Denial – More Dire Ads
Have Calor Gas been grossly insensitive with their advertising?

Remembering the Ability in Disability – Jeremy Beadle Had A Disability?
Beadle was “a perfectly wonderful, amazing example of DisAbility”.

snowflake5 – The Vietnam Factor
Is actual war-experience, particularly time in Vietnam, actually a hindrance to nominees running for the post of Commander-in-Chief? An excellent analysis.

Malcolm Redfellow revivus – 11 months, 22 days … and counting
Is the GOP close to total electoral collapse?

Elsewhere
New Humanist Blog – Texas may sanction creationism “degree”
Bloggerheads – Thinking of hiring Iain Dale as a speaker on blogging? Think again.
The World after Bush – McCain up, Edwards out, Giuliani never in
Cassilis – Final thoughts on Iain Dale & Derek Conway…
donpaskini – Sharing the proceeds of growth
Left of Centrist – A two “man” race
Westminster Wisdom – McA-Levels
Spy Blog – European Arrest Warrant extradition to Spain – Law Lords overturn habeus corpus for Farid Hilali

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About the author
Aaron Murin-Heath is an occasional contributor. He is a writer based in Newark-on-Trent and Tallinn, Estonia. He is both socially and economically liberal. Aaron blogs at tygerland.net.
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Reader comments


1. cjcjc

Cheap, but valid!

I like the commenter’s point.
Diane Abbott seems to be suggesting that Steele voted for George W Bush in 1980 and 1984!!

(Steele sounds like he could be the model for Prof Kiipps in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty?)

2. nodn

I am very flattered to have made it to the first roundup, and not just ‘Elsewhere!’ Thank you so much Aaron, you have made my very long day!


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