Top Stories & Blog Review – 27th April
Nationwide
The end of class discrimination in UK?
Can police and media trust each other?
Clegg seeks end to MP home gains
Prepare for public sector pain, says Cameron
International
Call for action as swine flu spreads
Sri Lanka rejects Tamil rebels’ ceasefire
Iceland’s leftist coalition win general election
Chrysler, Union and Fiat reach agreement
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / Sarah Ismail
Craig Murray needs viral press officers.
Aqoul The economic crisis spells the end of the emigration boom.
Blairwatch says that Labour is at war with itself.
Blood And Treasure On the idea of the ‘pre-approved Muslim.’
Chris Dillow on what Susan Boyle’s fame tells us about economics.
The F Word on what geeky women have to put up with.
Nadeem Ul Haque/OpenDemocracy on how to solve Pakistan’s problem.
The New Statesman on the publishing industry’s unhealthy obsession with fame.
And finally, today’s XKCD is a salutary lesson about Swine Flu; or you can, as always, browse through previous Netcasts
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8019745.stm – A debate on Gurkhas will be had as Lib Dem’s secure time
* gently edits Lee’s punctuation *
I wish I knew which article Newswire was trying to link to with his provocative headline, and I’d fix it…
Have the eeevil Tories killed any small animals too?
What have the Tories done?
Do you mean object to Brown’s off-the-cuff panicky proposals?
Did you see the YouTibe video btw?
Play it without sound – it’s hilarious…
And Lord knows, there’s nothing we Tories like more than killing.
In this case, though, Dave had to share the joy of kicking this one in with Lil’ Nicky Clegg from down the road. Dave sat on his head while Nicky stuck a boot in his groin.
whoopsie, link fixed! thanks Jennie.
Odd description – technically it would have been ‘expenses reform’ of course, but another way of putting it would have been ‘counterproductively giving away unaccountable free money, with it going disproportionately to MPs who live near London and don’t need the expenses’…
Andrew: but that would have been FAR too long!
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