Welcome to our daily blog review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.

This is Zimbabwe – Zanu PF’s violent retaliation continues. (warning: pictures of beatings may be NSFW)
The Yorkshire Ranter – Just how unstable can a regime be, and still be a “regime”?
Freemania – The roots of Labour’s problems predate Gordon Brown, and he was the never the right man to weed them out.
Anton Vowl – A mail columnist has claimed that being judgemental has a positive effect on people. Vowl documents the treatment of Mark Speight and proves otherwise.
Clairwil – People can be so stupid sometimes. Particularly parents.
William Kristol – In a calculated attack, Kristol claims Barack Obama is “disdainful of small-town America — one might say, of bourgeois America.”
My Left Wing – Might Obama’s running mate be a woman? (pssst. no, not her)