Top Stories and Blog Review 1st February 2009
Here’s your bumper Sunday Edition!
National
Bank of England institutionally sexist shocker.
Bees disappear. We’re all screwed.
Children of Thalidomide still suffering.
Mandelson rides to the rescue of the P Off but skewers the unions.
Nurse told not to push religion on patients
Brown criticises wildcat oil strikes
Tesco to launch own-brand clothes website
International
Turnout 51% in Iraqui elections.
Catholic Church loves homophobes as well as Holocaust deniers.
111 Dead as petrol taker explodes in Kenya.
Putin faces mutiny in own government.
Gaza runs desperately short of food
Babies caught in Sri Lankan crossfire
My Sister’s Keeper: Lesbian’s Paradise
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Tom Feilden fanboys David Attenborough in a celebration of the start of Darwin Season on the BBC. You can watch the programme Tom is talking about tonight at 9. There’s more on this in the Graun, too.
Mr Quist outlines the horns of the elected official’s dilemma – to do what’s objectively right, or to do what’s popular? (this is my main reason for being against an entirely elected House of Lords, btw)
Political Betting and UK Polling Report are predicting a Scottish election soon.
Stephen Tall continues the discussion about the meaning of the word “progressive” on LDV.
Robin Lustig wonders if it’s time to ban the bomb.
The Honourable Lady Mark is fanboying Nick Clegg.
The Daily Mash has yet another exclusive.
Septicisle has the usual links roundup, and Andrew Hickey has some more.
And if all that is just too depressing for you, Lucas Weatherby wants you to convert to Buddhism
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It has always struck me as wrong that anyone could sit in the House of Lords after a criminal conviction. It has also struck me as wrong that they should retain their title.
But, there you go. Privilege has only it’s own conceit.
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