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Top Stories and Blog Review – 26th Oct


by Jennie Rigg    
October 26, 2008 at 2:25 pm

A final favour?
How Mandelson helped Oligarch

And more…
Tories face call to repay Rothschild £1m loan
Spending Stalls and Businesses Slash U.S. Jobs
Palin: Obama = Nightmare Communist State
Campbell: Labour ‘has to rediscover fight’

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg (words by Aaron)

Moments of Clarity – Darrell muses the new multi-polar world, a new commitment to international institutions, and a post-Bush US foreign policy.

Innerbrat – Complex and honest. A blogger discusses her ADD and the difficulties of living with the condition.

NaBloPoMo – November is National Blog Posting month (and Nat. Novel Writing Month). Will you post everyday for a month? *glances accusingly at LibCon bloggers*

Himmelgarten Café – Excellent post on the effects of The Daily Mail on our collective psyche. Also, one-in-four Britons think that gay sex should be illegal. So a quarter of us think that the gays should should be forced into a monk-like celibacy. Did you ever see V for Vendetta? Maybe we should carry out experimental treatments on them too?

singing my song – The arguments against the disestablishment of the Church of England are pitiful, as this Christian blogger explains. What’s wrong with democracy in the Church, huh?

Daily Kos – Kids implore their parents not to follow peer-group pressure and dabble in voting McCain [video].

tygerland – More Tory sleaze? C’mon people! They’re all just as bad as each other. People don’t care about the major parties, so where else are they going to get their funding?

BBC [video] – It’s Sunday, so in our celebrity corner we have Keanu Reeves, who lends his support to an inspirational film about legendary Canadian rockers Anvil. Sarah’s Brown’s brother, Sean, was involved in making the film, which I suppose makes this a political story now. My head hurts…

Top Stories and Blog Review – 25th Oct


by Newswire    
October 25, 2008 at 11:36 am

More Tory sleaze revelations

And more…
Voters lose confidence in George Osborne
Race less of a factor in US election
Will Florida go to Obama?
Britain plunges into a ‘once in a lifetime crisis’

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Political Betting – Keith Mothersson, guesting at PB, shares his worries about Republican electoral corruption, and how an Obama win may be denied.

Obsolete – What is it about 80-ft yachts that so irritates the average mortgage-slave? Answers on a postcard. Also: just how far up Murdoch’s arse is Slippery Dave prepared to go? Again, answers…

Amused Cynicism – While refuting aspects of a fellow blogger’s review of V for Vendetta, ‘cabalamat’ widens the debate on partisan blame for the erosion of civil liberties. Money-quote: “If you think the Tories would be significantly better on civil liberties, I think you are deluding yourself.” Amen.

Paul Linford – It’s Saturday, so it’s time for Paul’s must-read Journal column. This week’s subject, unsurprisingly, is baby-faced muppet George Osborne, who this week got pwned by Mandy.

Talking Points Memo – The McCain campaign sort to stoke ‘race attack’ reports before the facts were known. The woman who claimed that a black Obama supporter beat her and carved a “B” into her face, has admitted that she made the story up. (pssst! Maybe that the “B” appeared to be back-to-front was the clue?)

The Curvature – Prostitutes can’t be raped, apparently. Society sucks.

Earthpal – Reality-based common sense on sex education. Hyperbolic morons such as Sayeeda Warsi, would do well to give it a read.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 24th Oct


by Newswire    
October 24, 2008 at 9:37 am

Cameron, Murdoch and freebies

And more…
London falls as Asian markets plunge
‘Conservatives have lost their solidarity’
World carmakers in deep crisis
Swiftboat blues: why isn’t anyone attacking Obama?
Greenspan: I was wrong about the economy

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail

Hello again people! I’ve got loads of good stuff from this weeks blogs for you today! Happy Friday!

Ala Abbas – The world was not made for the silent. I love this post because, to me, it’s a perfect description of life with a DisAbility.

Angela Saini – Spent Tuesday night celebrating her geeky sisters.

Clairwil – A little old for this roundup, and just slightly out of season, but this makes a good Friday Fun.

Feministing – Squiddie needs to stop reading the opinion page.

Hopi Sen – Osborne-inspired literary satire from Hopi. Excellent.

MediaWatchWatch – The runner-up link for Friday Fun is… an attempt by Christians to ban Halloween! Surely this is a trick? :)

New Statesman – Why Virginia Woolf wouldn’t win the Booker Prize.

Socialist Unity – Speed Kills. So why not fund speed cameras, Swindon council?

Sonia Afroz – A little older, again, than I’d usually use on a Friday. Sonia’s been reading good books.

Sunder Katwala/Next Left – Sunder remembers the late and not so great David Evans.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 23rd Oct


by Newswire    
October 23, 2008 at 11:05 am

Irish women let down

And more…
Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe
The campaign ad wars
What possessed Osborne to pick a fight with Mandelson?
‘US missiles’ kill seven in Pakistan
India joins the space race

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin

Oranges and Lemons asks, in a superbly written piece, if sustainability is sustainable.

Himmelgarten cafe highlights the latest protests against the ban on “violent” porn, and the hypocrisy

Jock Coats details the idea of a new “Community Finance Partnership”.

Lindylooz Muze talks about Islam…and whether you can be homosexual in such a religion.

Obsolete talks about a story that you shouldn’t actually go and read, not if you want to remain a non-sociopath.

Quaequam blog is proud to highlight just how popular Vince Cable is among a broad populace, and the benefits that should bring to the next election for Lib Dems.

CiF/Conor Clarke notes that when it comes to taxation, we’re all socialists of a kind.

Liberty Alone laments on the slow death of Liberalism within the Lib Dem’s, surely not!

Top Stories and Blog Review – 22nd Oct


by Newswire    
October 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

Osborne fighting for his political life

And more…
Osborne mired in Tory funding scandal
How the political storm started
Tories on the back foot
Inequality gap falls in UK
Palin under fire for children’s expenses

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson

Yesterday’s review went the way of yesterday’s sleep, absorbed by a pressing need to finish writing about Henry I’s administrative reform.

The Yorksher Gob - slays Stephen Green. Excellent.

Back Towards the Locus – on another religious fanatic. Who’s also disingenuous.

This is Zimbabwe – on the importance of passports.

Bob Piper - Does George Osborne really have a good reputation to defend?

Our Kingdom - on the stalker state.

Pickled Politics - The left destroyed Sarah Palin with aggression; surely a lesson for the future?

Obselete - feels the Osborne-Yacht-Russian billionaire affair simply shows the “new Conservatives” to be a shallow redux of New Labour.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 20th Oct


by Jennie Rigg    
October 20, 2008 at 11:34 am

60% want abortion law changed in N.I.

And more…
Campaigners at abortion rallies
Obama sets fundraising record of $150m
US gives troops immunity over Iraq crimes
Game delayed over Koran phrases

If all this is too depressing, contemplate the cheery fact that it’s National Baking Week.

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg (with a bit of help from Aaron)

MushKush doesn’t like the comparison of the current regime to Big Brother in 1984, because Big Brother is efficient.

Jonathan Calder, with casual disregard for the wank that such speculation may engender, wonders about Lembit Opik’s sanity.

A Lanson Boy has a theory, which is his and belongs to him, about Mandelson.

Costigan Quist proves that no news is ever new, with regard to Scouts getting Sex Education. Liberal Harpie also has a post on this issue.

[US section]
Jane Mayer/NewYorker – Palin promised to shake up DC and wasn’t seeking “their good opinion”, but it turns out she ran a calculated campaign to capture the imaginations of leading conservative opinion makers. McCain claims he and Palin are “soulmates“, but the Senator was seething he couldn’t pick his pal Joe Lieberman. [warning: long]

The Confluence wants American women to get angry.

Lib Dem Voice comment on the Powell endorsement of Obama, picking out the bit that really made me cheer.
[/US section]

And finally, Amused Cynicism has this week’s Britblog Roundup.

Today’s Top Stories – 19th October


by Jennie Rigg    
October 19, 2008 at 12:44 pm

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.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 18th Oct


by Newswire    
October 18, 2008 at 10:59 am

Cameron accused of ‘juvenile’ politics

And more…
Bankers’ £16bn bonus bonanza
More conservatives endorse Obama
Only a surge can beat Taliban now
Obama wins backing from three major papers

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Paul Linford – The commentariat have run with the “Brown Revival” meme, but, as always, they’re getting a little carried away with themselves. Oh, and Cameron’s not going anywhere.

Anton Vowl – Anton takes his anger at the media to new levels. He makes numerous funnies. (NSFW)

Jock Coats – Jock talks tax. Land Value Tax!

The Daily (Maybe) – The Bush administration, not content with ruining just the US and the Middle East, is taking its caravan of WWJD-bullshit on the road.

Left of Centrist – McCain is getting confused. He can’t make his mind up as to whether he’s a Bushie or not. [video]

Freakonomics – Is it okay to vote based on race?

Quaequam Blog – James can haz some fun (sorry). Oh and Lembit, James isn’t part of the conspiracy against you. He just thinks you’re average.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 17th Oct


by Newswire    
October 17, 2008 at 9:43 am

Remove abortion restrictions – say doctors

And more…
Dow Gains 401 Points in Day of Wild Swings
‘Joe the plumber’ turns out to be a fraud
First woman to lead Muslim prayers angers traditionalists
General wants ‘the surge’ in Afghanistan
Birmingham named UK’s ugliest city

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail

Hello Readers! Happy Friday! Hope you enjoy today’s links.

Clairwil – On politics, Palin and feminism. This includes a video that made me smile so, once again, we start with Friday Fun.

Derek Wall – Publishes a preview of the Communist University.

Dr Strangelove – On Thursday’s Presidential Debate, at which McCain apparently imploded.

Europhobia EUtopia – ITV have launched a new channel.

Indigo Jo – Doesn’t think much of Panorama.

MediaWatchWatch – The Christian Institute’s been complaining about the BBC.

New Statesman – A review of Jade Goody’s second autobiography. Well, it’s non-fiction…

OpenUSA/Guy Aitchison – There were three people in Thursday’s debate- Obama, McCain and Joe the Plumber.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 16th Oct


by Newswire    
October 16, 2008 at 11:48 am

US stocks: 2nd biggest loss ever

And more…
World markets slide as recession fears arise
Biggest jump in UK job losses for 17 yrs
UK healthcare improves, London gets worse
Muslim DVD rattles voters in US states
The race is now fixed in Obama’s favour

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin

UK Liberty reminds us that the fight against illiberalism surrounding 42 days is far from over, no matter how many toxic policies are dropped. Furthermore, lets remember what is still in the counter terrorism bill.

Andy Worthington reports on some good news for justice. Perhaps American officials should watch less 24?

Neil Stockley knows that Obama is winning because McCain is losing. Others agree.

UoB/brigidjones has an eloquently concise introspective piece on the safety of women on their own, and how that impacts on men.

The bleeding heart show highlights an interesting study in to the attitudes of young people to “territory” and safety within them.

Charlotte Gore will DESTROY SOCIALISM…RAAARGH!

CiF/Jenni Russell celebrates the end of Sats for 14 year olds, but pushes for the next step.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 15th Oct


by Newswire    
October 15, 2008 at 11:44 am

Obama ahead 14% in latest polls

And more…
Colour may not work against Obama
Convincing Jews to vote Obama
Novel on India takes Booker prize
World press praises Gordon Brown
Israeli papers shun pictures of upcoming woman PM
Royal Mail honours ‘Women of Distinction’
US unveils $250bn banking rescue
Storm over Big Brother database
Long sentences ‘overload prisons’

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Shami Chakrabarti/CiF – Somewhat enjoying the government’s defeat over 42-days. A victory for “common-sense”.

Paul Linford – If David Davis is “vindicated”, will Cameron bring him back as Shadow Home Secretary?

The Daily (Maybe) – On the scrapping of Key Stage 3 testing.

donpaskini – On the Dem’s most effective ad.

The Angry Black Woman – Racism – the worst kind – is threatening to destabilise this election.

Political Byline – As William F. Buckley’s son Chris comes out for Obama, will more principled conservatives finally say enough is enough, and take back their party?

TPM – Palin has failed in her first national security test: the Russians have invaded Alaska. Heh.

Top Stories and Blog Review – 14th Oct


by Newswire    
October 14, 2008 at 10:46 am

Victory! Brown abandons 42 days

And more…
The Lords debate
Another blow to justice in anti-terror bill
U.S. investing $250 Billion in Banks
Obama details new economic plan
Asian stocks soar higher Tuesday morning

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson

The Daily (Maybe) - on the idea of the social contract.

Back Towards the Locus - invokes the image of Karl Rove in bed. Not for the faint-hearted, then.

New Direction - clarifies anti-imperialism

The Yorksher Gob - clarifies liberalism, somewhat more vigorously.

Christian Wolmar - on why we should renationalise the railways.

Secret Diary of a Cub Leader – The 42-Days defeat is enough to make this blogger question his animosity towards the Lords.

Freemania – The Tories are desperately trying to make political capital out of the financial crisis, but the experts disagree. Nobel Winning economist Paul Krugman, applauds Brown’s “combination of clarity and decisiveness”. Suck on that Gideon.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 13th October


by Jennie Rigg    
October 13, 2008 at 11:45 am

UK banks ‘forced to seek £50bn’

Elsewhere
More on the £50 billion bank bailout
Banking giants to be nationalised
Mandelson dogged by links to Russian oligarch
Lords set to inflict crushing defeat on 42-day detention
Concern in G.O.P. After Rough Week for McCain
A £516 trillion derivatives ‘time-bomb’
‘Free drinks for women’ could be banned
European leaders agree on financial deal

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

EXCLUSIVE! James Graham has a sense of humour. Shh. Don’t tell everyone ;)

Free Hich reports on the beginnings of Hicham Yezza’s case at Nottingham Crown Court. It seems there’s hope that he might not actually be jailed for downloading a publicly available resource while being brown.

Junkfood Science has a timely reminder about how polls and surveys work.

Rupert Read, Green councillor, feels vindicated. Even the Torygraph admits that Thatcherism is dead! YAY!

Chicken Yoghurt, meanwhile, has worked out what the one thing the working classes can depend on is, and he’s much less sure than Rupert that Thatcherism is dead.

The Acid Test is worried about the prospect of an Obama presidency for very Liberal reasons.

Stephen Glenn translates an SNP leaflet.

Non-Fluffy Pagans have a 70 comment and counting discussion going, which is a useful insight into modern paganism for those who have only ever encountered mainstream religions.

Blowing my own trumpet again: if you use Firefox you might find my post here useful.

And the Award-Winning Alix Mortimer has two excellent posts today. I couldn’t decide which one to link to, so you can have them both. Never let it be said that Liberal Conspiracy doesn’t give you more in these turbulent times ;)

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 12th October


by Jennie Rigg    
October 12, 2008 at 11:29 am

Council salaries hit by bank collapses
Councils Pay

Elsewhere
ACORN probe gives GOP new line of attack
North Korea Is Off Terror List After a Deal With the U.S.
Now we are facing our moment of truth – Brown
IMF in global ‘meltdown’ warning
Peter Mandelson joins richest Russian on his superyacht

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Hello, and welcome to your bumper Sunday netcast…

Jonathan Calder says even the Fail on Sunday are asking why Vince isn’t running the country yet. After the rumours all over the blogosphere earlier in the week that Vince may be called to number 11, this seems significant to me. But that’s possibly because I’ve been a naked Vince worshipper for ages…

And speaking of Vince, he has come out for Ros in the Lib Dem party presidential race (as Duncan Borrowman and Jonathan Calder and myself also report)

The Open Rights Group report on the No2ID pictorial protest in Parliament Square.

Peter Black is heartened by grassroots resistance to ID cards.

Liz Williams makes a great point about Death in Austria.

Chicken Yoghurt and Nich Starling have both been reading Blairwatch.

On Liberty Now wants to discuss Chandila Fernando’s idea of rebranding the Lib Dems.

Lib Dem Voice is joining the support for the Atheist Bus Campaign.

Also on LDV, the Award-winning Alix Mortimer wonders if it’s time for the Tories to ditch Boy George.

In lieu of Showbiz and Cookery (because we girlies are flighty and can’t keep to one or two subjects for long ;) ), this week I bring you knitting. With a slightly science geek bent.

And if that’s not enough for you… You know the drill by now.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 11th October


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
October 11, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Naughty, naughty Sarah

Elsewhere
Rich Nations Pushing for Coordination in Rescue
Probe Finds Palin Abused Power in Case of Trooper
Journalists in Iraq Stage Pullback of Their Own
Austrian far right leader dies in car accident

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Daily Kos – As America enters the final 100-days of Bush 43, “Meteor Blades” reflects on his many crimes and misdemeanours. History may well judge Bush harshly, he argues, but it’s too little, too late.

Bob Piper – Raging against Andrew Neil’s piss-poor political programming.

Ministry of Truth – Unity, writing about Neil’s Daily Politics, is more concerned with the programme’s supposed ‘psychologist’, Lucy Beresford, who sought to psychoanalyse the PM. Turns out she’s little more than a chancer and a charlatan. Good job, BBC!

Robert Fisk/Indi – Whether it be “Collateral Damage” or targeted killing, the end is pretty much the same. Saddam faced justice for his murders, will we?

Robin Lustig – You can’t make any sense of the current mess using traditional economics, you need “idionomics”. It from a few days ago, but it’s no-less relevant.

Chris K – Mike Smithson, of Political Betting fame, is dead wrong to claim that current account holders deserve to lose their savings in Iceland.

Pastichio Nuts – Excellent political-based humour from Nathaniel Tapley [video]. Loved the Tory song line: “Talk of tax-cuts, and single mum sluts, still gives me a stiffy.” Class.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 10th October


by Sarah Ismail    
October 10, 2008 at 2:39 am


Lost in Iceland

Financial Crisis
Councils ‘not reckless with cash’
Asian stocks hit after Dow plunge
World must follow my example, says Brown
Gordon Brown to sue Iceland

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail

Hello Readers! I’m your new Friday NetCaster. I’d like to present a new feature, Friday Fun. Something to smile at, just because it’s Friday. Enjoy!

Blairwatch – This week’s NetCast starts with the Friday Fun link, just because we’re in alphabetical order. Being a poet myself, I enjoyed this effort.

Derek Wall – The Green Bible has arrived!

Feministing – I’m sorry, Jessica. I have never understood why people can’t read books before unneccessarily insulting their authors either. All the best for when your book actually gets published.

Ministry of Truth – Is God a delusion? WARNING: LONG.

Victoria Brignell/New Statesman – New Statesman’s resident DisAbled writer on the highs and lows of all her different wheelchairs.

Pickled Politics/Kulvinder – A short history of the banking crisis. Excellent.

Robert Sharp – Tells us why he thinks Obama will win the race to the White House. I hope he’s right.

Stumbling and Mumbling – What really matters in modern politics?

Tinuvielberen – On Sexism.

Send your favourite links to tips[at]liberalconspiracy[dot]org and if we like them, they’ll make the round-up. See you next week!

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 9th October


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
October 9, 2008 at 11:55 am

House prices fall at record rate

Elsewhere
Dem strategists see landslide in the making
US could copy British-style bank bailout
Shares climb after intervention
Council millions at risk in Icelandic banks

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Freemania – Tom has a roundup of the media’s reaction to the UK bailout. Broadly, it’s quite positive.

Stroppyblog – Janine is agog at the sheer size of the bailout, and then goes on to argue for leftwing solutions to this crisis.

Obsolete – On the scary bailout, and how New Labour owns this mess.

Nick Clegg/Indi – Clegg argues that Britain needs tax-cuts, not just bumper bailouts. He also says that the bailout was necessary, supporting the government’s action. The Tories are still dithering, no doubt still scanning the wreckage for political points.

Sadie’s Tavern – On bungling media infiltrators. Funny.

Chicken Yoghurt – Talking of funny, Justin is unimpressed with Brown’s attempt at humour.

Oliver Willis – [Video] Interviewing McCain/Palin supporters and their scary views. Obama is a terrorist, btw.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 8th October


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
October 8, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Obama and McCain Clash Over Economy

Debate II – Reaction
A Showdown That Was More of a Letdown
McCain struggles to derail Obama
Round two goes to Obama.
Who Won The Debate? Clean Sweep For Obama
No Game-Changer Here

Elsewhere
Government to spend £50bn to part-nationalise UK’s banks
Darling details £50 billion bank bailout plan
Schools told to counter extremism
A-level exams system is ‘not fit for purpose’

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Ben Smith – Sean Hannity gets hijacked live on Fox News. Watch him thrash around like a dying fish.

The Corner/NRO – McCain was “very solid”, Obama “plausible”. Quite the praise from NRO, no?

Political Ticker – CNN: Obama won

Daily Kos – Kos praises CNN’s favourable/unfavourable meter of undecided Ohio voters. I watched the first hour of the debate on CNN. Obama absolutely creamed McCain, last night.

Real Clear Politics – The debate was “one of the most boring, least informative, most poorly moderated debates in recent memory.” Jeesh, why don’t you just come out and say it was crap? Also at RCP: The Spin Begins…

Bob Piper – Why can’t Osborne decide whether he supports the Chancellor’s Bank plan? Why the dithering? FAIL!

Obsolete – As the economic climate worsens, Labour’s handling of the crisis could yet repair the public’s faith in Brown.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 7th October


by Jennie Rigg    
October 7, 2008 at 10:29 am

Treasury fiddles as markets crashFTSE

Elsewhere
Markets slump as Darling fails to calm investor fears
UK ‘already in recession’ as confidence plunges
Brown critic ‘ends hostilities’
McCain forced to defend N.C.
Obama Leading In Ohio, Poll Finds

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Millennium Elephant has his beady little eye on Tory European policy.

Feminist SF are publicising 6 Sci-fi classics to help you choose the next president.

Meral Ece discusses the idea that ethnic minorities should boycott the police force.

Bagrec wants you to vote for which high street store is the most depressing in these turbulent times. I can’t believe more people are not voting for the hellhole that is Wilkinson’s…

Jonathan Calder has terrible news about a priceless Liberal artefact falling into Tory hands.

On Liberty Now likes Peter Mandleson. Well, SOMEBODY has to!

Stephen Glenn is talking about sex, baybee. Why SHOULD someone go on the sex offenders register for perfectly legal and consensual sex?

SepticIsle eviscerates Quentin Letts. It’s BEAUTIFUL.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 6th October


by Jennie Rigg    
October 6, 2008 at 11:07 am

German savings pledge raises stakes for Gordon Brown

Elsewhere
42-day detention maybe not dropped as unworkable
McCain team gets personal
The £2trillion question: Will Brown guarantee deposits?
Va. GOP fears McCain could lose the state
Stocks fall. Everyone dies.

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Senator Stuart Svyret has some exclusive and shocking updates on the Jersey child abuse scandal (hat-tip: Jonathan Calder)

Charlie Stross wonders how we’re all going to cope with the first recession of the internet age.

Lib Dem Voice is giving a platform to all three presidential candidates. Two of the three have so far posted articles. At the risk of sounding like James Graham: where’s Lemby?

Political Betting wishes a very happy first birthday to Gordon Brown’s biggest cock-up.

Anton Vowl has discovered that not content with nicking stuff from Beau Bo, the Fail are now stealing from Fox News.

Laariii posts on the reason why even though women are breaking into male-dominated workplaces, men are not rushing to female-dominated jobs in the Bad Feminists group blog.

I’m still picking on the party’s public stance on equality (or lack thereof)

Amused Cynicism is chronicling the continuing assault on our civil liberties.

Ryan Cullen has created a special new version of Digg especially for Lib Dem members, although apparently anyone can look, so if you want to go see what excites geeky Lib Dems, knock yourself out. I don’t see the point of it myself, but James Graham likes it, so it MUST be useful… ;)

And amid all these tales of woe there’s one little beardy ray of sunshine, and it’s the Honourable Lady Mark Valladares, who has found recycling provision in Devon to be mightily impressive.

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