Casting the net – Nails and Pot Noodles
Welcome to our daily review of blogs. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.
Politico – If a well-run campaign is a test of managerial competence, Hillary flunked.
e8voice – The PoliticsHome panel of “experts” are wrong. Framing Ken as a competent CEO will unravel
Left of Centrist – Could the US elect a crazy to the White House? (Hint: they’ve done it before)
Obsolete – It appears I’m alone in enjoying Ruth Fowler’s controversial piece yesterday. septicisle is particularly sardonic.
donpaskini – It’s a common misconception that young childless workers will be worse off for the budget.
Alix Mortimer - Needs nails, will get nostalgic.
The Golden Strawberry – A £30 Pot Noodle. Sold in Harrods. No, seriously.
Casting the net – The hypocritical correctionists
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Ruth Fowler – Pffffft!!! Liberals are hypocritical correctionists. I loved this article more than anything I have read this year.
Politalks – Gavin Whenman and Lee Griffin’s witty animations are back, this time they take on those randy politicians (NSFW).
NYT Books – Michiko Kakutani delivers a withering review of Martin Amis’ latest book on the GWOT.
Cerebral Black Hole – Wikileaks is in the news again. This time the site is being hounded by lawyers representing the Church of Scientology.
Obsolete – Brown’s administration has proven to be even more rightwing than could have been feared.
Crooked Timber – Sesame Street and Politics. This is why I write these reviews. Glorious.
The enemies of reason – More tabloid deconstruction from Anton Vowl.
Casting the net – It’s over Hillary, over I tells yer
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Michael Tomasky – The last wheel may just have come off the Hillary campaign wagon, as her chief strategist is dumped.
Westmonster – Would the selection of Condoleezza Rice as McCain’s Veep, throw the Dems into a flux? Black and a woman = Kerching!!!
Mr. Eugenides – In a predictably NSFW diatribe, Mr.E says pretty much everything that needs to be said about the pro-Tibet protests and the Olympics.
The Daily (Maybe) – Jim Jay rails against Cambridge’s latest cathedral of capitalism.
Indigo Jo Blogs – Maybe the verdict on Diana will silence the conspiracy theorists? Unlikely.
Paul Linford – From hero to zero: Linford on Peter Kilfoyle MP.
Sadie’s Tavern – Witty Sadie satirises BJ the Mayor Bear
Finally, Gracchi has penned this week’s britblog review.
Casting the net – Those toe-sucking Blairites
Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.
Penny Red - The student’s union has become “a finishing school for aspiring toe-sucking Blairite sycophants.”
Jock’s Place – Musing the question of an Olympic boycot.
Remembering the Ability in Disability – Rather than paying out compensation years later, what babies need is better care.
Norfolk Blogger – Oh my, Nich tears into Olympic touch bearer Konnie Huq.
Hang Bitch – Butlins: an experiment in racial integration and multiculturalism. Heh.
Sue Horton and Bjørn Lomborg – Sometimes it’s the simplest of measures that have the greatest impact on world hunger.
Stroppy Blog – On the passing of Greg Tucker.
Casting the net – Behind the bluster
Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments. Just a few links this morning.
Ministry of Truth – Oh no! It seems that the Tories may not have the online political sphere wrapped up after all.
Vanity Fair – In a lengthy essay, Phillippe Sands looks at how America became a proponent of institutional torture. via.
1820 – On Wendy Alexander’s latest attempt to salvage her leadership of the Scottish Labour Party.
Shiraz Socialist – Martin Luther King not only fought for race equality, he fought for the rights of all America’s poor.
donpaskini – The hidden poor are those without kids on low wages. The answer is tax-cuts.
RobertRouse – It’s true, only Obama can save America.
Chris Dillow – Dillow gets all highbrow in this critique of the left’s approach to religion.
Coffee House (pt. II) – Sexpot Nick Clegg answers more serious questions at the Speccie blog.
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