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. Just time for some *really quite excellent* quick links today, as I’m very busy.
Politalks
The latest video (NSFW) from Lee Griffin and Gavin Whenman: –
Script here. Special thanks to Lee for helping select today’s links.
Highlights
OurKingdom – Britain’s Strange Fruit
The Sound of Gunfire – A sober debate on booze culture
Brian Barder’s website – Prison over-crowding: fewer prisoners or more prisons? Wrong, as usual
David Thompson – Territory
Freemania – Is democracy dying of consumption?
publicansdecoy – Consistency and lines in the sand
Obsolete – Scum-watch: A lesson in attempting to puncture its own emotional balloon.
Redemption Blues has the latest Britblog review.
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Obsolete’s blog suggests (correctly as I understand it) that 60% of voters support the reintroduction of the death penalty.
Are they all scum?
Of course the proponents of abolition, and of replacement with life imprisonment, did not envisage murderers being released after just 10 years or so.
I would say that the majority are wrong.
Empowering the state to kill its own… tut tut
This by Tim Ireland really is gold dust:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2008/02/joseph_chikelue_obi.asp
As I understand it only 49% of people actually support capital punishment, and is on a downward trend. Yougov poll IIRC
cjcjcj: The Scum-watch refers to the paper as being scum, not the readers. I’m also not referring to those who favour capital punishment as scum. The 60% poll I quoted was conducted a number of years ago, and views may well have changed.
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