Casting the net – The audacity of hopelessness


by Aaron Murin-Heath    
March 26, 2008 at 11:14 am

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
freemania – Measuring inequality: a story with two ends
Statistic tart Tom Freeman is at it again. Personally I think that if you eat those hamburgers that come in a tin with gravy, you must be poor.

FlyingRodent – What I Thought When That Iraq War Invasion Thing Was Being Planned And How I Decided Not To Support It, Because It Was a Stupid Idea, And That
FR interviewing himself. It’s brutal, funny, and brilliant.

David Brooks/NYT – The Long Defeat
C’mon Hill. Enough is enough. How much more damage can you do to the party? Quote: “She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.”

A Very Public Sociologist – Socialist Strategy After the Third Way
Informed naval-gazing about the state of the Labour Party and centre-left parties on the continent. Interesting.

Elsewhere
Gavin Whenman – Politalks 8 [audio only this week]
Left of Centre – Mistaken or Lie? [hilarious photoshoping of HRC]
Cassilis – This weeks Think Tank Roundup…
Dave Cole – Edmund Burke on Nadine Dorries
Through The Scary Door – Big up the teachers
Remembering the Ability in Disability – Thank you very much, Channel 4!
Indigo Jo Blogs – Omar Bakri expresses dim view of Amir Khan
Question That – Ken vs Boris on the Issues (2): Crime
Love and Liberty – President Sarkozy Makes Sense

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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Reader comments


Cheers as always for the link :-)

That scary door is quite scary.

“That’s why Lindsay German’s campaign for mayor is so important.”

LOL!

“Statistic tart”? Please.

I prefer the term “number slut”.

Ta for the link!

Thanks for the link, once again.

I prefer the term “number slut”.

Whichever moniker suits!

Just joining in the fun. Thanks for the link!

And for those of you who enjoyed my post on Nadine, there’s another one up at davecole.org/blog. Oh yes.


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