BUDGET – NEW 50% TAX RATE

Nationwide
Opposition label Budget ‘fantasy’
MPs expenses plan rejected by Tories and Lib Dems
Ministers to announce CO2 plans
Campaigners call for regulation of Facebook racists

International
Hundreds of Sri Lankans killed in no-fire zone
Financier at centre of US mortgage crisis found hanged
ANC take lead in election count
Bush aides approved torture, says report

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Andrew Hickey

Mark Steel on institutionalised violence in the police.

Several people have posted about the Budget, including Darrel at the Social Liberal Forum who sees ‘Labour’s swansong’ as an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats, Charlotte Gore who considers it “tough on wealth, tough on the causes of wealth”, and Anton Vowl who has a budget-day drinking game.

Costigan Quist, on the ‘terror suspects’ who were uncharged but deported anyway.

On the same subject Septicisle thinks the Government, not the people, should be in terror.

Dorian at postmodernbarney on the conflict between wanting to denounce homophobia in the media and wanting to see good-looking men on TV.

And I have some very strong opinions about recent posts on this site.

And finally Basic Instructions tells us how to save the Earth, or browse through previous Netcasts

(ps. Apologies for the lateness of this netcast – I’ve been away from the internets. Aaron)

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