Top Stories and Blog Review – 16th February


by Jennie Rigg    
February 16, 2009 at 1:03 pm

BANK BONUSES BANNED

Nationwide
Anti-terror tactics ‘weaken law’ in UK & US
Angry factory scenes as BMW cuts 850 jobs
‘British jobs’ slogan splits the public
Asylum for lesbian on the run from Iran

International
Avast! Torrent site Pirate Bay goes on trial
Senior US soldiers in trial missing Iraqi billions
Chávez decisively wins bid to end term limits
Pakistan agrees to Islamic law in Swat region

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Debi “Innerbrat” Linton has feminist rage about the way the media reports teenage pregnancy.

Hans Nyberg has a 360o Panorama of a village in Gaza.

Rhodri Marsden is not happy about the way the net can mobilise in vigilante action.

Hagley Road to Ladywood is upset about the second class treatment of agency workers.

Matt Wardman has detailed highlights of the travesty that is the Criminal Defence Service Direct.

To cheer you up after all that doom and gloom, Charlie Brooker reviews the new flavours of Walkers’ crisps in his usual inimitable style (he is kinder than the pub regulars were about Fish ‘n’ Chips flavour, which was universally condemned as tasting like “dirty minge”)

And if you hanker after further linkage, the Britblog Roundup and Scottish Roundup are both now up.

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Reader comments

Labour finally join the party then, thank god for that. They’re such a doddering bunch of fools at times.

It’s not clear quite yet that bonuses have been “banned” except at board level.

And it is not clear why even “clerks” should be paid bonuses from public money when so many other people are taking pay cuts and (obviously) losing their jobs.

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