Tory lead cut to 1%

Nationwide
State should help children communicate
Straw launches the ‘vests of shame’
Shoppers leave Tesco for rivals
Officials who failed Baby P are forced out

International
Obama unveils his new team
Europe hesitant, divided over Congo force
The ordinary heroes of Mumbai’s terror
Berlusconi sues his journalist critics

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron

Charlie Brooker isn’t impressed with new “Community Payback” bibs for criminals sentenced to Community Service: an ill-conceived compromise between wonkish newspeak and a tabloid sound bite.

Chicken Yoghurt. Justin agrees it’s a crap idea. Mind you Just, it ticks all the right boxes (gimmicky, pointless, gimmicky, rightwing, gimmicky, cheap, gimmicky, short-sighted, gimmicky, idiotic, and let’s not forget – gimmicky).

Andrew R glances over the Green-affair and concludes that a lot of people are making themselves look very silly. Indeed, we don’t know jack, yet various blowhards on both sides continue to gush hyperbole and claptrap. [/imho]

Head of Legal takes a lawyerly approach the Green affair. Naturally.

Craig Murray pours cool water over the outrage. After all, what’s a few leaked policy docs when compared to a “Dirty Dossier” that fooled parliament into war? A measure of perspective, perhaps?

Daily Kos. “Plutonium Page” mulls over the “manufactured drama” after the appointment of Hillary C.

Dave Osler argues that the terror-attacks in Mumbai are a reminder that a settlement over Kashmir is long-overdue.