Casting the net – “Let’s stop harvesting brains.”
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
NY Times – A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
A series of mystery illnesses in an American meat-packing plant have been solved: aerosolised hog brains can cause an allergic reaction.
tygerland – The anti-McCain offensive continues (shameless self promotion)
Despite calls to rally behind the leader, Republicans are still attacking McCain with relish.
Iain Dale – Cameron Seizes the Transparency Agenda
OurKingdom thinks every Labour MP ought to read the above post by Iain Dale. I think they ought to just stop breaking the rules.
World After Bush – Seven million all
Sunder Katwala explains just how close the Democratic race is, and why the Republicans will choose McCain.
Boulton & Co. – France “Poised to Respond To Troops Plea“
Are the French about to give us a “dig-out” in Afghanistan?
Mark Mardell’s Euroblog/BBC – Tony Blair and the race for the presidency
Will Blair really get the new role of President of the Council?
The Daily (Maybe)/Natalie Bennett – Abortion: how the 40-year-old law traps NHS patients
Natalie writes a guest post imploring the Greens to back a motion to liberalise decades-old abortion laws.
Elsewhere
Amnesty International/Unsubscribe – Ten GOOD reasons why extending pre-charge detention is a BAD idea
The Huffington Post – Bush’s 2009 Budget Calls For Slashing Public TV Funding
Westminster Wisdom – Guido vs Gracchi the Counterpunch
openDemocracy blogs – “For the first time we feel we are helpless“. A message from women’s rights advocates in Gaza
Andy Worthington – Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo
GU newsblog – British press verdicts on Super Tuesday
Andy Howell – Here Come the Cops
TMP – Religion and Politics in Europe
Freemania – British government: an American’s guide
And finally, the latest Realpolitik podcast is up.
If you would like your blog or site to be considered as source material for future reviews, drop me an email at aaronh [at] liberalconspiracy [dot] org with the relevant url. I can then enter it into my RSS reader and monitor it for suitable content to be included. Likewise, if you have a specific article/post you feel deserves a little more traffic, get in touch.
-------------------------
Share this article
| post to del.icio.us |
Aaron Murin-Heath is a regular 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.
· Other posts by Aaron Murin-Heath
Filed under
Blog
3 responses in total ||
It’s a bit of breaking so not many have started talking about this yet… http://dizzythinks.net/2008/02/brown-tells-court-dont-trust-me.html but brown says that manifesto’s aren’t promises
*Rips hair out*
Argh! No he didn’t! He says they aren’t subject to legitimate expectation, which is completely different! Manifesto pledges invariably have to be implemented by primary legislation (an Act of Parliament) and these can’t be subject to judicial review. The doctrine of legitimate expectation is a part of judicial review.
PS. Cheers for updating this with the Realpolitik link Aaron 
Same difference Gavin, what he’s saying is that he can say what he likes in a Manifesto because there is nothing to bind him to do them. That’s tantamount to saying that manifesto’s are not promises, just ideals…ideals that he can drop whenever they don’t necessarily serve the current party line. I hope that people remember this come the next election as it will certainly mean anything he says he’ll do will have to be questioned with “but how do you guarantee that”.
On his form though his reply will be “12 years of stable economy, inflation kept at 2%, less unemployed, more police, better hospitals, we’re just better ok?”
Reactions: Twitter, blogs
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
You can read articles through the front page, via Twitter or rss feeds.
» How bad is the feline obesity crisis?
» Why don’t MPs pay back tuition fees instead of increasing ours?
» Obama is right to slam BP – and why capitalists should too
» Why does Phillip Blond see civic cohesion as a security issue?
» So what if the Labour candidates went to Oxbridge?
» Last night’s Labour hustings: will it get interesting or turn to torture?
» It’s now down to Ken to win London for Labour
» The Labour people need
» Blog Nation: what would you like to see discussed?
» The Labour leadership’s token contender.. and it’s not Diane Abbott
» In defence of these fraternal nominations
|
66 Comments 20 Comments 13 Comments 10 Comments 18 Comments 4 Comments 25 Comments 49 Comments 31 Comments 16 Comments |
 |
LATEST COMMENTS » Shatterface posted on How bad is the feline obesity crisis? » Shatterface posted on Complete tits » McDuff posted on Why I'm defending Ed Balls over immigration » damon posted on Complete tits » Sunny Hundal posted on Complete tits » sunny hundal posted on Why don't MPs pay back tuition fees instead of increasing ours? » Lee Griffin posted on The Labour leadership's token contender.. and it's not Diane Abbott » dan posted on Defend the urban fox! » Richard W posted on Boris rise for Living Wage left of Labour » Julian Swainson posted on How many cabinet MPs went to private schools? » sally posted on Complete tits » Joanne Dunn posted on How many cabinet MPs went to private schools? » Lovely Lynnette Peck posted on How many cabinet MPs went to private schools? » Nick posted on Why don't MPs pay back tuition fees instead of increasing ours? » Bob B posted on Complete tits |
