Published: April 5th 2009 - at 11:29 am

Top Stories and Blog Review Sunday 5th April


by Jennie Rigg    

POLICE ‘ASSAULTED’ G20 VICTIM

Nationwide
Geoff Hoon’s home expenses come under spotlight
‘Parents to blame’ for problems, say teachers
Archbishop Sentamu waves flag for England
UK torture collusion ‘widespread’, claims group

International
Roman police find sewer children
Scores of Tamil Tigers die in Sri Lanka clashes
Afghanistan to review ‘abhorrent’ sharia law
Large Antarctic ice shelf expected to break off

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

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Adrian Sanders MP (Warning to anti-Murdoch folk: blog is on MySpace) gives us a breakdown of his expenses claim. He might be interested to know that his daily “food and incidentals” claim, while not on the face of it unreasonable, is my entire household’s current WEEKLY food budget…

Melengro talks about sex and gender. It’s nice to read this sort of thing from a guy.

Nicholas Whyte wants us to reclaim þorn.

Bad Conscience on why estate agents should be regulated if we want to avoid getting into this mess again.

Costigan Quist wonders if those behind the anti-terrorism posters are willfully misleading people, or just stupid.

Will Rhodes fisks the new Tory darling Daniel Hannan.

Hagley Road to Ladywood goes all Ben Goldacre on the Torygraph.

David Boyle points out that equality is not just, or even mainly, about money.

And if you still want more, scurry on over to Septicisle, or you can browse through previous Netcasts


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