Top Stories and Blog Review – 16th Sept
Asian markets dive Tuesday morning
Elsewhere
Lib Dems back Nick Clegg’s tax cut plans
Is Gordon Brown facing a 1989/90 moment?
Obama’s plan to woo women voters
Wall St turmoil sends stocks reeling
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Sorry this is somewhat late – I managed not to realise it was Tuesday.
Our Kingdom - Brown’s plans for an integrated database of citizens’ details isn’t unique; and opposition is just as vocal elsewhere.
Dave’s Part - does the left have an answer to the Credit Crunch?
Louise Doughty - on the rise of anti-Roma racism.
Green Ladywell - Are dogs the new knives?
The Daily (Maybe) - Just what are the Lib Dems these days?
The enemies of reason - Actuallly, Christmas hasn’t been banned.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 15th Sept
Elsewhere
Ministers fuel talk of anti-Brown challenge
Has Palin’s attacks on the media worked?
Lehman CEO Fuld’s hubris contributed to meltdown
Obama supporters ready for fight
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Lib Dem Conference Special!
There is something of a theme to today’s review, and house style has gone completely out of the window. Sorry Sunny. If you get me a media pass for next conference so I don’t have to spend 12 hour days stewarding to attend… 
The main event of Conference so far was obviously the blog awards, of which LDV has an audio recording. Alix Mortimer won pretty much everything, and deservedly so (creepcreepcrawl). She only just managed to make the awards, though, due to being caught up in the XL thing… I still say the Elephant wuz robbed.
Ros Scott’s presidential campaign continues unabated. Although not everybody is happy about it. Rumours that Lembit Opik is throwing his hat into the ring seem true, as he was handing out Ipik Opik stickers. Have run out of “I’m 4 Ros” badges…
There have been a series of blogger interviews, none of which I have attended because I have been working 12 hour days. Did I mention I have been working 12 hour days? James Graham didn’t get to attend one of them either.
Oh, and because we are an inclusive and liberal party, David Lammy and Charles Clarke have attended conference to speak. And not to defect. As I at first thought when they arrived at the Marriot with Proper Security and glared at me lest I dare ask them for passes. No, Sunny, I wasn’t MEAN to David Lammy. I gave him my best winsome smile.
You can follow the conference gossip on Lib Dem Blogs, or, more likely, Lib Dem Tweets.
And now I must go and stand on the door of the Marriot again. If yer name’s not down, yer not comin’ in. Sadly, Iain Dale’s name IS down…
Top Stories and Blog Review – 13th Sept
Elsewhere
Whip sacked for urging leadership contest
Warning: 30 airlines will go bust this year
McCain Grilled On “The View”
Hurricane Ike could be worse than Katrina for US
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Paul Theroux/CiF – How exactly does shooting a moose with a big-ass gun make you a rugged Republican megastar?
Political Betting – Was Biden a bad choice, and did Obama ‘force’ McCain to gamble on Palin?
Scribo Ergo Sum – Our Douglas reviews Sarah Palin’s first network TV performance. Verdict? Scary.
Hassan Akram – The recent histories of Chile and Britain share some common characteristics, so what can the British left learn from their Chilean comrades?
Paul Linford – Brown’s latest throw of the dice may be his last, but it could also be the play Labour supporters have been waiting for.
peezedtee – Should we change the National Anthem?
The enemies of reason – Play the Littlejohn drinking game.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 12th Sept
Elsewhere
‘A bigger liar and Bush’
Bill O’Reilly Defends Obama, Slams Smears
Bush: Osama Bin Laden no longer responsible for 9/11
Video: Matt Damon slams Palin
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Glenn Greenwald/Salon – As the war in Afghanistan begins to fragment, with special forces units being openly despatched into northern Pakistan, Greenwald looks at Fox News’ propagandistic coverage of a recent bombing raid, in which tens of civilians – inc. woman & children – were killed.
Tom Griffin/OurKingdom – As the long-awaited inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes nears, campaigners are deeply concerned over apparent evasion tactics by the Met – almost 50 officers are to be questioned under anonymity. Justice, huh?
Nuclear Reaction – Justin has a theory as to where all those out-of-work Cold War spies and propagandists ended up: the nuclear power industry of course.
Mr Eugenides – Intelligent commentary on the increasing media incursion into political private lives.
Liberal England – Jonathan is concerned by an apparent inconsistency in Lib Dem tax plans.
The Daily (Maybe) – Sarah Palin thinks that war with Russia is a go’er. Forget CERN, this really could be the end of the world!
Obsolete – On those “New Tories”. I had a dream last night where I actually voted Tory. Coincidence? I need to lie down…
Top Stories and Blog Review – 11th Sept
Elsewhere
Pollster sees decisive Obama win
Unions talk with Tories
Credit crunch halts boom in executive pay
Failed Afghan drug policy harming us, says Iran
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
Jennie got all excited about Big Bang Day, as did other bloggers, though Stephen Glenn isn’t so sure we’re past the danger yet.
Anders Hanson and Meral’s Musings pick up on the Lib Dem tax cut story and wonder why there is any criticism. Given cutting taxes seems to be on everyone’s agenda aside from the Tories my analysis is the LHC has indeed turned the world topsy turvy.
CiF/Francis Gilbert laments the fact that Labour have failed to deliver on their smaller class sizes pledge.
Jo Christie-Smith reviews the Lib Dem website and generally comes out in favour of the new work.
Amnesty International set out their stall for why they oppose the death penalty.
UK Liberty unearths a google map of civil liberties infringements, has there been a better use of the Google system yet?
A Liberal Dose looks forward enthusiastically to the future should more bands follow the route of abandoning the traditional model of the music industry.
The extended list will be on my blog this evening
Top Stories and Blog Review – 10th Sept
Elsewhere
Lehman shares suffer 45% plunge
Revealed: the truth about brothels
Sarah Palin, the pastor and the prophecy
Apple launches new iPods
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Unstrung - covers the Angolan elections. And their lack of polling stations.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Discordia - How are think-tanks shaping the political agenda on Muslims in Britain?
Liberal England - Telford Council goes more than a little mad.
Rupert’s Read - calls for Lib Dems to follow his lead, out of the party.
New Direction - on attitudes to the middle-class left.
Stumbling and Mumbling - Immigrations caps are unimaginitive and irrational.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 9th Sept
Elsewhere
Police crisis after jury rejects £10m terror case
Suicide videos: what they said
McCain the messiah
Palin makes gaffe on the economy
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Two Doctors - names a few famous community organisers. Take note, Sarah Palin.
Lee Griffin - discovers that Frank Field is, in fact, not a saint.
Tory Troll - on Boris’ Red Summer.
Quaequam Blog - wonders whether the Lib Dems should begin to worry about the Greens. (Answer: Yes.)
Gaian Economics - And just what is a Brumaire, anyway?
Top Stories and Blog Review – 8th Sept
Elsewhere
George Osborne: no Tory taxcuts
McCain’s honour is in shreds
‘We’re married, we just don’t have sex’
‘The biggest and costliest government bailout ever’
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah
Alas! A Blog – Reports on a report on Anti-Semitism.
Feministing – A guest-posting ‘bitch’ called Shark-Fu, explains what she would do if she got to spend a day with Sarah Palin.
Indigo Jo – Explains why small-town Americans vote Republican.
New Statesman – Immigration detention centres are No Place For Children.
Kanishk Tharoor/openUSA – Palin is not the Republican Obama
Shuggy’s Blog – Dogs? Man’s Best Friend? Shuggy thinks not.
Tariq Ali/CIF – Unlike me, Tariq Ali is not happy with Pakistan’s choice of President.
Sarah is an occasional writer of the blog review, she blogs at Same Difference.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 7th Sept
Elsewhere
Civil servants are to vote on strike action
Storms in the UK leave six dead
US mortgage lenders could get the “Northern Rock” treatment from the US Government
UN Climate chief wants people to consider eating less meat
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
Tim Ireland finally sees a response from the Daily Mail over “reporter” Julie Moult’s false claims about a “Googlebomb” on Hazel Blears. The funny ensues.
LDV/Stephen Tall reports on Michael Portillo lending some weight to Local Income Tax…just…uh…don’t mention that it’s been a Lib Dem policy for years. Ok?
Chicken Yoghurt muses on the idea of Jeremy Kyle’s involvement at a higher political level than unemployment TV.
LDV/Mark Park wonders why Yougov attracts a different political standard of women respondents. More to the point, does this make Yougov more or less accurate?
Neil Williams joins in on the hate on EA for their free petrol give-away stunt. Given the main complaints were from residents that couldn’t even get out of their driveways, shouldn’t irresponsible driving also take some of the blame though?
CiF/Leo Hickman waits for the end of the world, nice knowing you all.
Destructoid reports about a pair of teenagers banned from owning pets and playing video games because they microwaved their cat. Now what are they meant to do to pass the time? My vote is on terrorism.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 6th Sept
Weekend relief – Republican hypocrisy
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sunny
Septicle – Nobody screws more prostitutes than the government, says Septicle, criticising Harriet Harman’s attitude
Our Kingdom – Tom Griffin highlights that Gordon Brown is devolving fiscal powers to Scotland
The F Word – Red Chidgey reviews ‘Opening Up’, a book which lays open the potential for different kinds of relationships
LibdemVoice – The third party can conquer Wales! Or so says Bob Innes, with a bucket of optimism
Top Stories and Blog Review – 5th Sept
Elsewhere
Dow plunges after ‘financial tsunami’ warning
Pakistan protests against US attack
Sarah Palin sparks ‘culture war’
Obama turns to Clinton to counter Palin
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
The Spectator – Following Palin was always going to be tough, but even the Tory-press is giving McCain a lukewarm response.
Anthony Painter – However, after a slow start, Anthony was quite impressed with McCain.
Maureen Dowd/NYT – From earlier in the week: Spinning a narrative around the Palin nomination, in the waspish style made famous by Dowd.
Earthpal – Getting to know Sarah Palin is not always heartening.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Discordia – As the media bandwagon moves on to the Presidential Debates, why not raid the liquor cabinet and play the Official 2008 Debate drinking game? When listening to Republicans lionise Ronald Reagan, I for one, always need a stiff drink.
Chris Huhne/LDV – Just because the Tories are expected to win big at the next general election, doesn’t mean that the Lib Dems can’t still increase their share of the vote and put more Liberal MP’s in Westminster. Labour beware!
The enemies of reason – Anton has some fun with the comments on a Daily Fail story about rainy Britain. Very funny. (NSFW)
Top Stories and Blog Review – 4th Sept
Elsewhere
Trouble in Thailand
Republicans caught criticising Palin
Tomasky: Its all about Sarah
Impact of climate change on Bangladesh
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Lee Griffin
Iain Dale has published the top 100 blogs list, liberal/left blogs make up 50% of the top 50 and more than 50% of the whole list.
Kerron Cross Thinks the personal attacks on Palin are going too far, as does Tom Harris and Janestheone.
Late night bohemians reports on an unacceptable arrest in Thailand.
Jon Worth notes that it’s about time somewhere in this country scrapped council tax.
EC1 Cruise Control has words of encouragement for Darling.
LDV muses on what it would be like to be Labour right now.
Liberal burblings revisits an exercise I did a few months ago in analysing swing states.
Extended list can be found on my blog
Top Stories and Blog review – 3rd Sept
2:45pm: McCain more likely to drop Palin, bookmakers
Elsewhere
Obama to upstage McCain by going on ‘O Reilly
Oil prices plunge again
India launches huge floods rescue effort
Palin hit by Alaskan independence past
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Back Towards the Locus - The Republicans don’t like flowers, it seems.
Harpymarx - Workfare doesn’t work and isn’t fair.
Iain Simons - Someone scrubbed Sarah Palin’s wiki profile just before her nomination – and so started a rather interesting debate about Wikipedia and online democracy.
Stroppyblog - on political rabbits in the headlights and young people.
Shuggy’s Blog - Have we all complletely misunderstood the US constitution, and indeed the nature of rationality?
New Direction - on Labour and fascism.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 2nd Sept
3:45pm: Tories to raise Inheritance Tax limit to £2m
3:30pm: BorisWatch – Mayor makes a sensible appt.
Elsewhere
How American blogs played Palin pregnancy
Hurricane: 90,000 houses in Cuba destroyed
Headteacher to stand in Glenrothes by-election
Google developing its own browser
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Caroline Lucas - explains her vision for the Green Party.
Splintered Sunrise - Is Sarah Palin a closet supporter of Alaskan Independence? Now, that should matter more than her daughter’s pregnancy…
Feministing - Although, that matters; insomuch as Palin clearly feels her daughter should have a choice, but not other women.
Sandy Rosenthal - New Orleanians are not afraid of Gustav. They fear the failure of the federal levees.
Huffington Post - Palin’s polls, meanwhile, do not look wonderful. Perhaps a natural consequence of appearing to pick a VP to break the DNC’s hold on headlines for a week rather than run the country.
Tory Troll - Boris talks whiff-whaff.
Tygerland - brings us the Ann Coulter song.
Tips in the comments, or to tips[at]liberalconspiracy.org
Top Stories and Blog Review – September 1st 2008
Elsewhere
Global warming: ‘extreme action’ required
2 million flee hurricane Gustav
Indian flood victims face food shortages
Russia claims sphere of influence
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Steph Ashley has news of a special offer from the Joseph Rowntree Trust: if you donate to No2ID, the trust will double your money.
GinaSketch, in the light of Gustav, blogs about how previous hurricanes have affected her and her loved ones.
Obsidian Wings reports that the Republicans didn’t vet Palin before selection. Hat tip: Amused Cynicism who has views; similar views eloquently expressed in graphic form by Dr. Beren (with extra points for BSG geekery).
The Support Hicham Yezza Blog reports on the consequences for academic freedom of Hich’s plight.
Peter Black AM reports on something that those of us with postgraduate degrees who work in pubs are already fully aware of.
Anton Vowl is pleasantly surprised by comments on the Daily Mail website. No, honestly, he is.
And finally, Scans Daily has a 1970s Incredible Hulk story which might be of interest to the feminists among us. I LOLed.
Top Stories and Blog Review – 31st August
Elsewhere
Will Palin draw women’s allegiance?
Storm may delay Republican convention
Darling gaffe stirs Labour turmoil
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
Peter Black AM reports on Gordon Brown’s vandalism. Somebody give that man an ASBO!
Alas, a Blog! discusses the Olympics, and their impact on sexism/racism/ablism etc.
Brad Hicks knows why McCain picked Palin. Best post I have seen on this so far.
Moments of Clarity has a brilliant article about Faith Schools.
The Yorkshire Guidon is amused by Tory embarrassment with being Tory in Leeds.
And finally, Mark Pack has an amusing typo on Lib Dem voice (which the Greens among us might find slightly less amusing than me)
Top Stories and Daily Blog review – 30th August
American politics
The story behind the Palin surprise
With Pick, McCain Reclaims His Maverick Image
Palin: You’re no Hillary Clinton
Michael Tomasky [video]: ‘An insane choice’
Palin Probe Could Mean Election-Eve Trouble for McCain
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Short ‘n’ sweet today…
Secret Diary of a Cub Leader – The Daily Mail: even its own copy contradicts its headlines.
Anthony Painter – Welcoming the appointment of Sarah Palin.
Left of Centre – Robert has some fun with the aged McCain and his, ahem, running mate. [photo]
Friendly Atheist – Some illustrated Bible stories that you’re unlikely to find in Sunday School. via.
Political Betting – Is the Brown-Darling relationship souring?
Obsolete – Reviews the ongoing stalemate in the Caucuses.
Top Stories and Daily Blog review – 29th August
American politics
Obama takes aim at McCain
How television played it
McCain struggling to fill 12,000 seater
Full text of Obama’s speech
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
The Quail – Demonstrating their commitment to breaking the biggest stories, Daily Mail hacks risk having their innards comically turned inside-out as they dabble in time travel. Admirable.
The People’s Republic of Mortimer – Alix wants the Lib Dem tax policy to get the credit and profile it deserves. She also warns the party against “family-speak” vote-grubbing.
Pickled Politics – Shariq focuses on *that* speech from the final day of the Democratic Convention.
Demos – Has McCain finally come to his senses?
Tim Worstall – We should all eat organic, right? What we need though, to bring prices down, is a return to peasantry.
The Daily (Maybe) – Green Party deputy leader hopeful, Adrian Ramsay, is under the spot-light.
Enemies of Reason – Anton argues for greater press controls, as self-regulation is a joke. Oh, and don’t get him started on online newspaper comment threads.
tips[at]liberalconspiracy[dot]org
Top Stories and Blog review – 28th August
American politics
It’s turnout versus the news cycle
New media at the convention
Self made man
Bill Clinton bonds with Obama
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath
Chicken Yoghurt – Justin claims that Grant Wilkinson, the one-man Heckler & Koch who sold converted SMG’s to gangland scallywags, merely lacked ambition.
Freemania – Tom runs over the rule over the Tories’ latest anything but regulation! policy to stem obesity. He isn’t surprised businesses are delighted to welcome “responsibility deals”. Say what you like about the Tories, but never say they haven’t learned anything from New Labour.
Obsolete – septicisle, also considering the Tory theme of obesity, is more concerned with Andrew Lansley and David Cameron’s tone towards the working class. Maybe Cameron ought to aim his barbs at some of his more rotund backbenchers?
Left of Centrist – Bill Clinton delivers the perfect speech (to Barack Obama’s campaign).
Dreaming of Simplicity – Joe Biden delivers the perfect punch (to John McCain’s kidneys).
Same Difference – The Paralympic Games start next week. Can someone remind the MSM?
Harry’s Place – Is back.
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Top stories and blog review – 27th August
Elsewhere
Hillary Clinton calls for unity
Pelosi stands by abortion comments
Europe’s changing populations
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Douglas Johnson
Our Kingdom - Alex Salmond’s comments on Thatcher’s legacy show mainstream politicians are as united in their private acceptance of her policies as they are in public condemnation.
Dave’s Part - The American left is too weak to assert itself any more.
James Grieves - Has the music industry found an acceptable compromise?
Obselete - on that “Gordon Brown is insane” meme.
The Daily (Maybe) - hosts the Carnival of Socialism.
Two Doctors - Just, don’t eat tuna.
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