TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 5th October
Elsewhere
War on Taliban cannot be won, says army chief
Mandelson damned PM to top Tory
Power cuts feared in UK nuclear plants crisis
Palin makes Obama terrorist claim
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Smash Boredom has news of the Climate Rush protest in parliament square on the group blog Powerswitch.
Alas, a Blog! discusses Sarah Palin’s assertion that Obama hangs with terrorists.
Dave Hingsburger describes how a threatening phone message affects an activist.
I have some questions for the writers of the current Lib Dem party website.
Showbiz: Andrew K Lawston has a weekend of running into celebs.
Cookery: Junkfood Science takes a look at breakfast cereal.
Blame Maggie link of the week: Nich Starling blames the current economic crisis on Maggie
And, as always, if that’s not enough linkage for you, SepticIsle has more.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 4th October
Elsewhere
Bailout Plan Wins Approval
McCain Plans Fiercer Strategy Against Obama
Palin divides women of Florida
Record debt and no jobs for graduates
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Paul Linford – Brown played a devilishly good hand.
Though Cowards Flinch – The police don’t like political interference. But isn’t that what a democracy is about?
Left of Centrist – Robert dares to believe that Obama might actually win.
Solana Larsen/openUSA – The NY right-wing tabloids are calling the debate for Palin.
donpaskini – For all the talk of Palin’s background, it was Biden’s personal story that won the debate.
Stumbling and Mumbling – Chris on Cameron’s claim that his “character and judgment” trump Brown’s experience. Would you give slippery Dave a job?
TODAY’S TOP STORIES / 3rd October
Reactions
You betcha Sarah Palin can debate
Palin defies critics and delivers punchy performance
Palin and Biden spar in debate
Watch the election unfold on twitter
Elsewhere
Revealed: the Tory plot that forced out Met chief Blair
Anger erupts over Met chief’s resignation
Cruddas tipped for minister job in shuffle
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail
Angela Saini – Has been brainstorming the state of the world in 11 years’ time, with a little help from her friends.
Derek Wall – Is campaigning to Free Hugo Blanco, a human rights activist who’s been arrested in Peru.
Indigo Jo – On the million-dollar question: When was Eid-ul-Fitr 2008? (I celebrated on Tuesday. Eid Mubarak to all Muslim readers!).
Kanishk Tharoor/openUSA – Obama disappoints on foreign policy. So, what’s different about him then?
Natalie Bennett – Links to the 65th Carnival of Feminists.
New Humanist Blog – Lists the Ten Commandments of Blogging. Yes, really.
The Curvature – Cara on her visit to South Dakota Live Action Camp. WARNING: This post is long.
Though Cowards Flinch – Who cares what toilets are called, as long as they do their job?
Top Stories and Blog Review – 2nd Oct
Elsewhere
France seeks €300bn rescue fund for Europe
Fresh criticism and concerns over “42 days”
Cabinet reshuffle expected
House prices fall further
We’re all doomed.
No, really, we’re all doomed.
… Except Rick Astley.
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Chicken Yoghurt shows naked enthusiasm for Cameron’s conference speech.
Jonathan Calder has an urgent appeal from the Labour Prime Minister.
Alas, a Blog! examines what might be to blame for the financial crisis.
Sexual Intelligence has the answer – clearly it’s all the fault of PORN!
Septic Isle went to the Sun’s fringe events at Conference. He’s a braver man than I…
Mat Bowles has an interesting book meme.
Oh, and speaking of memes, The Supreme Court meme is doing the rounds on LiveJournal – see Nick Whyte’s post for an example – do feel free to join in.
DAILY BLOG REVIEW *EXTRA* / by Lee Griffin
CiF/Joanna Lumley I don’t think we can highlight enough how the Governments illegal actions are finally being overturned on the Gurkhas.
Obsolete wraps up the analysis of the Tory conference. In short, the Tories are certainly appearing to be the next party in power, even if they sound as shaky as ever.
Amnesty International UK Is Northern Ireland a sexists paradise? With figures like these we have to ask, is there a cultural problem here in urgent need of change?
TPM highlights the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign team, on the one hand trying to appear noble and above petty politics, but then also trying to blame Obama for everything that’s wrong in the world.
A week is a long time muses on the benefits of mistakes if you clear up the mess well
CiF/Colin Matthews Thinks that all this talk of “no third runway” at Heathrow is unrealistic.
Extended list will be on my blog later
Top Stories and Blog Review – 2nd Oct
US Senate injects new momentum to $700bn bail-out
Elsewhere
France seeks €300bn rescue fund for Europe
Fresh criticism and concerns over “42 days”
Cabinet reshuffle expected
House prices fall further
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
CiF/Joanna Lumley I don’t think we can highlight enough how the Governments illegal actions are finally being overturned on the Gurkhas.
Obsolete wraps up the analysis of the Tory conference. In short, the Tories are certainly appearing to be the next party in power, even if they sound as shaky as ever.
Amnesty International UK Is Northern Ireland a sexists paradise? With figures like these we have to ask, is there a cultural problem here in urgent need of change?
TPM highlights the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign team, on the one hand trying to appear noble and above petty politics, but then also trying to blame Obama for everything that’s wrong in the world.
A week is a long time muses on the benefits of mistakes if you clear up the mess well
CiF/Colin Matthews Thinks that all this talk of “no third runway” at Heathrow is unrealistic.
Extended list will be on my blog later
Top Stories and Blog Review – 1st Oct
Elsewhere
Cameron: It’s all about character
Lloyd TSB’s HBOS rescue in jeopardy
US senators to vote on bail-out
Nervous GOP urges McCain to attack
Bloomberg Called Ready to Announce Third-Term Bid
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
New Direction - manages to include Kinnock and Tony Benn in a list of Labour heroes.
Pickled Politics - Sunny reports from Kathmandu.
HarpyMarx - What’s happened to the pension funds?
The F-Word - Come to abortion rights public meeting on the 7th.
Tory Troll - How long can Boris live on fantasy island?
Back Towards the Locus - How Obama should respond to McCain’s latest ad.
Rupert’s Read - When does consensus become ideology?
Top Stories and Blog Review – 30th Sept
Elsewhere
Markets carnage after bailout rejected
Palin gaffes spook McCain team
Tories ‘to help have-a-go heroes’
‘Millions’ of UK young in poverty
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Pickled Politics - Ahmadinejad acknowledges Iran may have a “few” gays. Progress?
Shuggy’s Blog - Why does the left always underestimate the right?
The Daily (Maybe) - Why do unpopular religious leaders bother to attack works of popular fiction? It only makes them yet more unpopular…
Tygerland - carries Mike Huckabee’s response to the bailout. What do you make of a party whose senators reject a plan as socialism while other prominent figures reject it for encouraging greed amongst the rich?
Gaian Economics - The mutuals should never have demutualised.
Two Doctors - has some advice for Werner Faymann.
Ann Pettifor - thinks Keynes would have known what to do.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 29th Sept
Tories
City must share blame – Osborne
Brown’s had his boom, now he’s bust says Cameron
It’s not policies that the Tories need, but a bit of gravitas
Tories: £20bn 180mph rail link instead of 3rd H’row runway
Elsewhere
UK: Tests for drugs in tap water
Bailout bill day of reckoning
Banks rattled by rescue
Olmert: Israel must quit East Jerusalem and Golan
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Plenty of comment on the Bradford and Bingley situation: Stephen Glenn reports a conversation between Senor Bradford and Senor Bingley; Chicken Yoghurt has productive suggestions for buy-to-let landlords; Jonny Nexus has no sympathy for small shareholders; Nich Starling has some regulatory suggestions for Gordon; Anton Vowl comments in his usual, inimitable, style; even So Very Doomed have picked up on it…
RM, a native New Yorker, has an open letter to Sarah Palin, telling her to stop using 9/11 as a political football.
Jonathan Calder has some suggestions for the Tories on how to conduct their conference.
Charles Darwin, meanwhile, has been casting a rheumy Victorian eye over the Labour party conference.
Live Science points out scientific proof that immigration reduces crime rates. Commenters pick holes with anecdotal “evidence” and no sense of irony.
Amused Cynicism has a retort for those who think that whatever Labour do, the Tories will be worse.
Liberal Harpie muses on the lack of male primary school teachers.
Charlotte Gore, champion of the underdog, sticks up for smokers.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 28th Sept
Elsewhere
Vaz under pressure over 28-day query
Tories plan to create 5,000 new schools
Breakthrough Reached in Negotiations on Bailout
McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
James Graham has been to Labour Conference and found it wanting.
Liberal England discusses the picture of Ed Balls in Nazi uniform.
Junkfood Science reports on the “success” of BMI assessment of children. My own daughter took part in the UK pilot of this recently…
Peter Black is stunned to discover that some dodgy folk have been contributing to Tory coffers.
Showbiz: Chicken Yoghurt’s tribute to Paul Newman; and Spirit of 1976 has the trailer for the new biopic of Dubya.
Cookery: This Little Piggy Went To Market has been making cookies; and organic box company Farmaround has a fine selection of vegetarian recipes for you to choose from.
(if you’re wondering why we have a showbiz and cookery section now, click here)
And if that’s not enough links for you, Scepticisle has more.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 27th Sept
Watch the debate
CNN videos of debate – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
More Analysis
Grading the First Presidential Debate
Temperature of Debate? Lukewarm.
The Mac is back
Who Won The Debate? Reviews Go To Obama
McCain Takes It
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Daily Kos – Did McCain’s constant trashing of Obama’s experience and judgement lower voter expectation, to the Democrat’s advantage?
RCP – Tom Bevan is confident that McCain won, but does it really matter?
TPM – Why didn’t McCain make eye contact with Obama? Was it embarrassment, contempt, anger or maybe fear?
Oliver Willis – It’s an easy decision really: the cool cucumber or the furious tomato.
Michael Tomasky/CiF – The actual debate is over. Now let’s see how the campaigns spin it.
Paul Linford – Back to UK politics for the final couple of links, as Paul reflects on Brown’s speech and the huge amount of work ahead of him.
Sadie’s Tavern – When did Fraser Nelson become such a slimy Cameron acolyte?
Top Stories and Blog Review – 26th Sept
Elsewhere
Tempers flare as $700bn bailout stalls
Brown to meet Bush at White House
Tonight’s debate will make or break candidates
Israel asked US for green light to bomb Iran
Cabinet split on Kingsnorth power station
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail
Rahila Gupta/CIF – My favourite human rights campaigner raising awareness of an organisation that promotes diversity in the theatre.
Sonia Afroz – Examining Pickled Politics, the second-best blog on the net (after this one.)
1820 – What does John McCain have in common with Homer Simpson?
Angela Saini – If Palm Oil takes off as source of energy, it could be catastropic for the environment.
Bartholomew’s Notes – On the ‘Jihad Prevention Act.’
Bloggerheads – On the second-boldest liar in the blogosphere, our friend Naddine.
Blood and Treasure – A 300 year old ban has been lifted…
Obsolete – …Catholic heathens can now be king (or queen!).
tygerland – ID Cards are destined for disaster. Why doesn’t the government see it?
Top Stories and Blog Review – 25th Sept
Elsewhere
McCain and Obama at odds over “campaign suspension” stunt
Shake up of Monarchy rules planned
Labour announce free school meal trial
School defends putting hurdles in the way of health of young girls
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
New Model Army is one of the first to get out there and say he’s proud to be backing slightly strange Lembit Opik for the Lib Dem presidency. Can he do a Boris Johnson?
Political Betting urges caution around the 7% Labour poll boost. This always happens, and you shouldn’t get your hopes up.
Jock Coats analyses the inevitability of the political machine to grind on relentlessly, and what it means for “change”.
CiF, an anonymous writer discusses arranged marriages, and the exploitation within.
Current Vision thinks unity is over-rated…that’s being chummy, not the blogger.
Max Dunbar uses the book, Unjust Rewards, as a launch pad for a discussion on the gap in wealth.
Bristol Blogger uncovers the announcement for a Bristol Congestion charge in…Builder and Engineer magazine? Read for the ensuing comments.
Lanson Boy on why the Lib Dem’s should never setlle for the AV system of PR voting. Why exactly do the party continue to let Norman Lamb talk?
As usual, extended list up on my blog
Top Stories and Blog Review – 24th Sept
Elsewhere
House GOP rises up against Cheney
Brown gets up close and personal
Ruth Kelly set to quit
First Chinese to spacewalk on Friday
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Back Towards the Locus - produces a post which sums up my feelings towards Brown’s speech entirely.
Cruella Blog - Which century are we in again?
The F-Word - Is feminism reaching everyone it could?
Kerron Cross - reacts to Ruth Kelly’s resignation.
Pickled Politics - on Richard Barnbrook’s big day out. So big, in fact, that Barnbrook had to make some parts ups.
Rayyan Mirza - What can the Greens do in 100 months?
J. Arthur MacNumpty - has some advice for the Scottish Greens.
An Onymous Lefty – comments on the state of bigotry in Australia.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 23rd Sept
Elsewhere
The Palin effect falters
McCain camp tries to attack New York Times
Brown tries to face down rebels
Inquest hears on Charles De Menzes shooting
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
George F. Will/WashPo – Will brilliantly characterises the flip-flopping (and increasingly blustery) McCain, as The Queen of Hearts. Off with his head!
New Humanist Blog – Republican dirty tricks? You say they’re using Islamophobia to scare voters? Say it ain’t so!
Green Bristol Blog – A clerical error? Maybe, but one that promotes a Labour PPC to the rank of MP…
The enemies of reason – Anton loses it over a whiny Express cover. (NSFW)
Video – Ian Hislop hits out on The QT. Genuinely funny.
Lance Price/CiF – Everyone knows Miliband is manoeuvring himself to replace Brown, Price explains why he should very cautious. Labour isn’t ready.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 22nd Sept
Brown plans crackdown on world markets
British Airways suspends flights to Pakistan
Dems say they won’t get fooled again
Radical Shift for Goldman and Morgan
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
To Miss With Love has a rather discomfiting post on racism in schools.
Chicken Yoghurt agrees with Jack Straw. No, really. Click it, honest, he does.
Peter Black discusses public attitudes to the Welsh Assembly.
A Lanson Boy has been “recycling” old cars.
Caron is joining a fair tips campaign. As a barmaid (whose boss is shocked and disgusted that anyone would even think of taking tips from the staff) I applaud this.
And for those of you who still need one, Duncan Borrowman has updated the code for the “I’m 4 Ros” blog button.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 21st Sept
Labour conference schedule
I will do better, Brown pledges
Brown’s stock rises as voters endorse handling of crisis
Labour rebellion spreads as Brown pleads for unity
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Sam Coates/TRB – Could the ‘collapse of capitalism’ save Labour?
Will Hutton/Observer – Like the Americans, we need to be decisive in the face of the financial crisis.
The Wardman Wire – Garbo thinks that it’s Rowling’s money, so it’s her prerogative.
Kerron Cross – It’s Cameron’s election to lose, which leaves Brown nothing to fear. Be bold!
John’s Labour blog – On the massive pay hikes for housing chiefs.
Charlotte Gore – Watching the conference from afar. Pass the bucket.
Harpymarx – Photos from the anti-war demo in Manchester.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 20th Sept
City bounces back
The panic is over… possibly
‘Best man for job’ asserts Brown
Wall Street woes benefit Obama candidacy
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Patrick J. Buchanan – Yeah I know, Buchanan is hardly the usual fodder for progressives, but he is one of the few conservative commentators who is actually chronicling America’s economic decline.
Alix Mortimer – Quality navel-gazing from the Lib Dem’s premier blogger™.
anticant’s arena – Anticant sheds a tear for our desperately poor former PM.
Jock’s Place – The banking system is – and has always been – a fixed system.
James Graham – Consumed by political negativity, James considers his options.
Polly Toynbee/CiF – Having split with Gordon, Polly looks to define his replacement.
Jay Stevens/CiF US – America’s unlikely saviour: environmentalism.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 19th Sept
Elsewhere
Brown’s make or break week
Morgan Stanley in talks with Chinese
Palin disinvited from Iran rally
The Obama Ground Game
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Robin Lustig/BBC – Chill out people! It’s just an economic downturn. Things were pretty dire in the seventies and eighties too. I think Robin has a point, but I’d mention that personal indebtedness is much more severe this time.
Eugene Robinson/WashPo – John McCain is “dangerously clueless” on the economy.
Chicken Yoghurt – There is no Sunday School for atheists, neither are they a gang.
Freemania – The credit crunch in layman’s terms.
Obsolete – The field looks perfect for the Lib Dems, so why aren’t they doing better?
Also, our Jennie, and James at Scribo Ergo Sum, have a disagreement on the relative strength of the Liberal Democrats.
Andy Worthington – Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, spends yet another birthday in Guantánamo. He was just 15 when he was seized.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 18th Sept
Elsewhere
MRSA reduction targets being met
Uk unemployment in worst situation in a decade
Nick Clegg: “We’re headed for Government”
Alan Milburn increases Labour tensions
LHC back on collision course
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
CiF/Lara posts about her experience in the sex industry, by and large the comments are supportive and/or constructive and well worth a read.
Septicisle, and myself, think the paralympic effort this year was great on behalf of the athletes, but on behalf of the media it’s been woefully lacking.
UK Liberty reports on yet more instances of people being subjected to layer after layer of scrutiny to keep the children safe. God forbid you ever get accused of something but never trialled for it though.
Forceful and Moderate has a three part explanation of our economic situation. Parts 2 and 3 are also up.
CiF/James Graham reports on the Lib Dem Conference.
CiF/Libby Brooks looks at the film “Eden Lake” and how it reflects on our societies inability to engage with youth.
CiF/Naomi Alderman wants you to know that there are lives to be lived outside of the City.
As usual, see my extended list on my blog
Top Stories and Blog Review – 17th Sept
Elsewhere
Fed bails out AIG by buying it
Economists overwhelmingly prefer Obama
Russian stockmarkets dive 17%
Palin linked electoral success to Kenyan witchhunter
Israel’s ruling party to pick woman leader
Pelosi orders wide Wall Street probe
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Rizwaan Sabir - on six days of state-sanctioned abduction.
Obselete - Labour rebels need to find a figurehead.
Kubatana - Will the power-sharing deal beteen Mugabe and Tsvingirai actually work?
This is Zimbabwe - The Zimbabwean Human Rights NGO Forum is, meanwhile, cautiously optimistic.
Cruella Blog - on sex and the Tories.
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