Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section. There will be no NetCast tomorrow, so I’ll return on Monday. Have a nice weekend.

Shooting Hillary

Why not have a game of Presidential Paintball over at Mike Power’s gaff?

Breaking News
Peter Hain has resigned from the cabinet.

Highlights
Quaequam Blog – Pigs 1, Goths 0 (UPDATE)
It seems our own James Graham has created something of a firestorm with his post about a couple of Goths thrown off a bus.

The Yorksher Gob – Still picking on James Graham
Yeah, Jennie’s especially pissed off.

The Daily (Maybe) – Weird news rash
Jim Jay also lays down his thoughts on Gothgate (sorry, couldn’t resist… I’ll stop now).

Obsolete – Scum and Mail-watch: “Cult“ suicides and idiotic sensationalism.
Septicisle at his best, tearing into the tabloid media.

John’s Labour blog – Explaining Tory “Dog Whistle” Politics in London
Michael Howard’s Tories experimented with nasty “dog-whistle” politics, and look where it got them. It seems they’re back trying them in London.

PoliticalBetting.Com – Is the “Gordon’s a weirdo” tag a deliberate strategy?
Mike Smithson follows up Paul Linford’s “This not so charming man” post .

Stephen Tall/LDV – PMQs: Nick sticks it to Gordon on Northern Rock
Stephen has the low down on yesterday’s tête-à-tête between Clegg and Brown.

Shiraz Socialist – Fanatics, bores and sceptic tanks
We need a referendum on Lisbon, because the the argument must be won.

Elsewhere
Robert Sharp – BNP are shit
OurKingdom – Labour’s approach on rights, duties and values
donpaskini – Red Ken and the trots
Robin Lustig/BBC – The values debate
Larry Elliot/CiF – Davos 08: The shifting global balance
Skipper – Intellectual Ideas Motivating Blair and Bush’s Invasion of Iraq
Ephems by Brian Barder – The Americans and us: nought for our or their comfort

Apologies to Jonathan at Liberal England, whose BritBlog Roundup I forgot to plug on Tuesday.

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