MPs Give up Battle to Restrict Abortion Rights

Elsewhere

Passports Will Be Needed To Buy Mobile Phones
South Korea Joins Global Rescue Plan
Tories Urge Small Business Help
Brown Recovery Cuts Tory Lead to Single Figures
Negative Equity hits 60,000 Families Per Month

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

UK Polling Report dissects the latest polls.

Charlotte Gore is annoyed at the anti-progress attitude of the supposedly progressive Labour Party.

Rhetoric Innes has interviewed the contenders for the Welsh Lib Dem Leadership – Kirsty Williams here and Jenny Randerson here – but you’ll have to scroll past his enormous header to see what he wrote

Minnesatva, a USian translated to our shores, is lost because of the lack of Thanksgiving.

Peter Black, AM, discusses the mobile phone story in the Sunday Times.

Lizbee has got hold of some vintage issues of Doctor Who magazine and, armed with a scanner, unearths some gems for us all, including the origins of Harry Potter and the Fourth Doctor encouraging K9 to do something very illegal to Romana…

And finally, if you didn’t listen to Soul Music – What a Wonderful World on Radio 4 this week, I urge you to do so while you still have chance:

Some of you young folks been saying to me “Hey Pops, what d’you mean, What a Wonderful World? How ’bout all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger, and pollution? They ain’t so wonderful either.” Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute? Seems to me, it ain’t the world that’s so bad, but what we’re doing to it. And all I’m saying is, see what a wonderful world it would be if we’d only give it a chance! Love, baby, love. That’s the secret.

Indeed, Louis, indeed.