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
OurKingdom – White season for racism
Vron Ware’s controversial critique of the Beeb’s “White Season” shouldn’t be missed. Even if you disagree.

Cassilis – A tale of two pastors…
America’s volatile religiosity makes for a messy kind of politics. And not just for Obama.

Dave Cole – Media mendacity
Newspapers such as the Express and Star like to drape themselves in the Union flag, but what sort of nation is their gossipy journalism actually creating?

Jock’s Place – Protection or Free Trade – Tories debate
For all their rhetoric, the Tories have a lot to learn about free-trade.

Anne Applebaum – Boycott Beijing
The Olympics is political by its very nature. So the games are the perfect place to protest. And don’t forget the corporate sponsors whose cash the event relies on. My comment: Then again, our economy is so intertwined with China’s, wouldn’t a protest be merely superficial?

Elsewhere
donpaskini – Wisdom of the Crowds: Iraqi special
Question That – Smokers Are Voters Too
Obsolete – Take me out to the crucifixion.
feeding the fish – The amazing hypocrisy of Theo Hobson
Shiraz Socialist – The Fertilisation Bill: the rational counter-attack
e8voice – Compulsory voting? Electoral reform?

UPDATE: (this – just under the wire – should be included) New Humanist blog – Aaronovitch and Toynbee on religion and the Embryology Bill

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