Casting the net – Thatcher and the Feminists


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
March 10, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments

Highlights
Cassilis – A troubling lack of perspective…
Both the right and left are wrong on Thatcher. Liam Murray brings balance to one of politics’ most divisive and controversial characters. She was neither a messiah nor an ogre.

Crooked Timber – Taxes and the little people
Scrapping the non-domicile tax rule has split opinion, even FT writers can’t agree.

Penny Red – A Million Women Rose! (well, almost.)
Feminism is on the march! A – somewhat personal – dispatch from the Million Women Rise protest. Beautifully written, too.

OurKingdom – Motherland is a must
Motherland is a powerful play about an asylum detention centre in the UK. It’s a must see.

Clairwil – Can We Have a Revolvution Please?
Raging against nannyism in schools, Clairwil demands teachers concentrate on reading, writing, and arithmetic.

The Crown Prosecution Service – Free Expression and the Rule of Law (lecture)
Last week, Sir Ken Macdonald QC (Dir. of Public Prosecutions) delivered a “surprisingly liberal” speech at Birmingham University. via.

Elsewhere
Joe Otten/LDV – The issue is not faith schools but freedom of conscience
John’s Labour Blog – The 4 Johns, Eve & Gloria tackle the BNP
Anton Vowl – Femail oopsie
Blood and Treasure – Boris the Circassian
Stumbling and Mumbling – Osborne: obnoxious prat
Robin Lustig – Obama-Clinton? Or Clinton-Obama?
Mind the Gap – Femininity, sex and courtly love

If you would like your blog or site to be considered as source material for future reviews, drop me an email at aaronh [at] liberalconspiracy [dot] org with the relevant url. I can then enter it into my RSS reader and monitor it for suitable content to be included. Likewise, if you have a specific article/post you feel deserves a little more traffic, get in touch.


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Aaron Murin-Heath is an occasional contributor. He is a writer based in Newark-on-Trent and Tallinn, Estonia. He is both socially and economically liberal. Aaron blogs at tygerland.net.
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