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.

Highlights
Alex Hilton – Daily Mail’s True Colours
An email by a Daily Mail writer illustrates how the paper looks for its stories on immigrants.

The Golden Strawberry – Food for Thought
There is a global food shortage, people are starving, so please, don’t bitch about the price of bread.

Political Betting – Will the plagiarism charge hurt Barack?
Call it a tribute, dude. Anyway, IMO, it makes Hillary look desperate.

The Daily (Maybe) – Ed Rooksby: The Global ‘Credit Crunch’ and the Media
Fancy a vitriolic left-wing tirade against capitalism? Then look no further.

Bloggerheads – A poor show from the Guardian
As poor gap-year blogger Max Gogerty begins his travels in a foul teenage sulk, Tim Ireland turns attention on those who put him up to be shot down.

Steve Richards/Independent – British politics will never be the same again
There is a bigger story behind NR: reckless deregulation of the banking sector.

Christopher Buckley/NYT – The Manchurian Conservative
Wonderfully written defence of McCain’s conservative honour.

Elsewhere
Tom Miller – The Government is right on Northern Rock
Paul Linford – The least worst option
Jonathan Calder/Liberal England – Disappointing Virgin
Vince Cable/LDV – Opinion: non-domiciles and tax
Mark Mardell’s Euroblog/BBC – Kosovo’s Serbs on the march
Liberal Burblings – Northern Rock nationalisation v the Tory “alternative“ – spot the difference
yourfriendinthenorth – “North Korean men know all the tricks of the trade” [video]
Don’t trip up – Greenshirts?

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