Top Stories and Blog Review – 12th Dec

Nationwide
Barclay brothers dislike democracy in action
UK blocking European Congo force
Fresh calls for Iraq war inquiry
Fall in stabbings after knife crackdown
International
Auto bailout dies in U.S. Senate
Germans seek to buy British out of Eurostar
Island nations slam slow progress on climate
Iraq bomb kills 48 in volatile north
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail
Angela Saini: Darwin would have been 200 now. But what would he say about the state of the world today?
Bartholomew’s Notes: Evolution has been removed from the school curriculum in Romania.
Clive Davis: Dave Chappelle on chicken and watermelon. Friday Fun No 1.
Feministing: Courtney reflects on Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy.
Hagley Road to Ladywood: Claude today analyses Purnell’s “shake-up”, the use of lie detectors and the issue of whether they’re going to be used on the right people.
Liberal England: Johnahan’s Eight Wishes for 2008. How many came true? Friday Fun No 2.
MediaWatchWatch: 250 Christian activists protested at a poetry reading. After reading the poem, I’m not surprised.
OurKingdom: On the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights.
Robert Sharp: What should the First Lady wear to the inauguration? Friday Fun No 3.
Sunny Hundal/Pickled Politics: I couldn’t decide between these two posts at Pickled Politics, both by Sunny, so you can have them both. The first’s on Obama, the second’s on Banaz Mahmod.
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If you want to know what Darwin would say today, he does have a blog. So does Gladstone…
The jury at the inquest of Jean Charles de Menezes have returned an open verdict.
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