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by Aaron Murin-Heath    
February 19, 2008 at 10:06 am

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
Alex Hilton – Daily Mail’s True Colours
An email by a Daily Mail writer illustrates how the paper looks for its stories on immigrants.

The Golden Strawberry – Food for Thought
There is a global food shortage, people are starving, so please, don’t bitch about the price of bread.

Political Betting – Will the plagiarism charge hurt Barack?
Call it a tribute, dude. Anyway, IMO, it makes Hillary look desperate.

The Daily (Maybe) – Ed Rooksby: The Global ‘Credit Crunch’ and the Media
Fancy a vitriolic left-wing tirade against capitalism? Then look no further.

Bloggerheads – A poor show from the Guardian
As poor gap-year blogger Max Gogerty begins his travels in a foul teenage sulk, Tim Ireland turns attention on those who put him up to be shot down.

Steve Richards/Independent – British politics will never be the same again
There is a bigger story behind NR: reckless deregulation of the banking sector.

Christopher Buckley/NYT – The Manchurian Conservative
Wonderfully written defence of McCain’s conservative honour.

Elsewhere
Tom Miller – The Government is right on Northern Rock
Paul Linford – The least worst option
Jonathan Calder/Liberal England – Disappointing Virgin
Vince Cable/LDV – Opinion: non-domiciles and tax
Mark Mardell’s Euroblog/BBC – Kosovo’s Serbs on the march
Liberal Burblings – Northern Rock nationalisation v the Tory “alternative“ – spot the difference
yourfriendinthenorth – “North Korean men know all the tricks of the trade” [video]
Don’t trip up – Greenshirts?

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.


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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.
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Reader comments

Erm, Tim Ireland isn’t really doing that is he?
He seems to be attacking the boy’s defenders!

cjcjc,

Oh pooh, that wasn’t the article I read yesterday that defended him. I should have checked (and I should have saved the url from the other post), but I swore I read it at Tim’s.

Changed. Thanks.

Well, I am defending Max Gogerty to an extent, in that I think it’s wrong that he’s being exploited by the people at the Guardian; “Look at Max the victim, everyone! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

I’d agree. He may well need a slap for wearing skinny jeans, but I don’t think he deserved the level of vitriolic class-based nonsense he was subjected to.

BTW. If my blog review is up before noon, it means I’m in rush.

Reading Max’s blog it’s quite conceivable that he deliberately wrote it in the persona of some ‘Skins’ character – in which case it’s actually very good!

Only until one wonders why the Guardian didn’t mention/claim that days ago.


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