Top Stories And Blog Review- Monday 6th April
Nationwide
Net tightens on insider trading
Military doubts fail to sink £20bn Trident
Town hall staff who earn more than the PM
Tories want innocent off DNA database
International
Massive ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
Pfizer to pay £50m after Nigerian deaths in trial
3 suicide attacks kill dozens in Pakistan
Experts: N Korean missile launch was a failure
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sarah Ismail
Rahila Gupta/CIF Most women in the sex industry are simply driven by desperation.
Clive Davis Had an Obama-ish moment in Botswana, during which he showed that he’s proud to be himself.
Robert Sharp was disappointed by responses to his first post at CIF.
Same Difference Sunday Times readers have hearts.
Stumbling And Mumbling Why aren’t all MPs crooks?
The F Word Jess McCabe rounds up the ‘sizzling G20 Wives.’
And finally… Ariane Sherine has some good advice for budding writers. If that’s not enough, you can browse through previous netcasts.
“Not only have we saved the world”*… it’s green hard-hat time
The circus has left town again. Obama, Hu, Lula and Sarkozy are moving on to their next diary dates, as are the black-clad Guerrigilieri Anomali. So what to make of the G20?
We had thousands of people in green hard hats out on the massive, peaceful march last Saturday — we’ve been teaming up with the unions and NGOs and bombarding officials and leaders with campaigns for weeks, we delivered our G20 campaigns in person to Number 10 and to Dominique Strauss-Kahn (“DSK”, who heads up the now-supersized IMF)… and I still wasn’t sure how much we were getting through the noise.
But when I look at the big picture, you know what?
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Top Stories – 6th April
Nationwide
Net tightens on insider trading
Military doubts fail to sink £20bn Trident
Town hall staff who earn more than the PM
Tories want innocent off DNA database
International
Massive ece bridge ruptures in Antarctic
Pfizer to pay £50m after Nigerian deaths in trial
3 suicide attacks kill dozens in Pakistan
Experts: N Korean missile launch was a failure
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / coming later
Can the Staggers return to its glory days?
I have had the strange experience of publishing an article in the New Statesman, once a familiar home. It’s a reply to Conor Gearty’s absurd attack on the Convention on Modern Liberty.
Does the Statesman have a future? If the question continues to be asked for as long as it HAS been asked, since the 60s in fact, that gives it another 50 years. I’ve not met the new editor Jason Cowley. His magazine faces three problems: socialism, the Labour Party and the Guardian. Historically, ie before the 1960s, the NS appealed to a broad liberal as well as left readership as well as enlightened Conservatives.
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Readers’ editor smacks down Nick Cohen
The Observer’s readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard steps into the recent row between Nick Cohen and Sunder Katwala:
It’s tempting to dismiss all this as just so much scrapping by a small clique, but let’s look a little closer at the detail. Shiraz Maher, Cohen’s “Muslim liberal”, is a former Islamist activist who associated with Glasgow bomber Bilal Abdulla, recently jailed for at least 32 years. Readers should have been told that.
Maher wrote in the Mail on Sunday last month about government ministers being unwilling to promote the idea of Britishness, yet the concept of what it is to be British is central to Gordon Brown’s government and has been a major Fabian theme. If Maher really is this out of touch with democratic public debate, it calls into question his credibility on the subject of think-tanks.
Katwala told me that Maher had never had any contact with the Fabians or the IPPR, but “his co-authored paper is quite good; it contains nothing we could not have published”, so it would appear that Maher and Cohen’s accusation of censorship is without foundation in this case.
No doubt Nick Cohen will see this as example of the ‘vast leftwing conspiracy’ in action. Nevertheless, it is a shame Nick cannot engage in a proper debate other than accuse the left of being blind just because “noted lefties” such as the Queen apparently appease Islamists, and then saying everyone is trying to censor him.
Top Stories and Blog Review Sunday 5th April
Nationwide
Geoff Hoon’s home expenses come under spotlight
‘Parents to blame’ for problems, say teachers
Archbishop Sentamu waves flag for England
UK torture collusion ‘widespread’, claims group
International
Roman police find sewer children
Scores of Tamil Tigers die in Sri Lanka clashes
Afghanistan to review ‘abhorrent’ sharia law
Large Antarctic ice shelf expected to break off
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg
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Adrian Sanders MP (Warning to anti-Murdoch folk: blog is on MySpace) gives us a breakdown of his expenses claim. He might be interested to know that his daily “food and incidentals” claim, while not on the face of it unreasonable, is my entire household’s current WEEKLY food budget…
Melengro talks about sex and gender. It’s nice to read this sort of thing from a guy.
Nicholas Whyte wants us to reclaim þorn.
Bad Conscience on why estate agents should be regulated if we want to avoid getting into this mess again.
Costigan Quist wonders if those behind the anti-terrorism posters are willfully misleading people, or just stupid.
Will Rhodes fisks the new Tory darling Daniel Hannan.
Hagley Road to Ladywood goes all Ben Goldacre on the Torygraph.
David Boyle points out that equality is not just, or even mainly, about money.
And if you still want more, scurry on over to Septicisle, or you can browse through previous Netcasts
The media and killing sprees
There’s now been at least six killings sprees in the space of less than a month .
For the most part I tend to be sceptical about claims of media influence, especially to the extent to which it might by itself trigger copycat behaviour or violence, but there does seem to be some reasonable evidence, at least where it comes to suicide, that sensationalistic coverage and especially emphasis on methods can lead to an increase in the number of attempts by those who already contemplating doing so or are otherwise depressed.
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Top Stories – 5th April
Nationwide
Geoff Hoon’s home expenses come under spotlight
‘Parents to blame’ for problems, say teachers
Archbishop Sentamu waves flag for England
UK torture collusion ‘widespread’, claims group
International
Roman police find sewer children
Scores of Tamil Tigers die in Sri Lanka clashes
Afghanistan to review ‘abhorrent’ sharia law
Large Antarctic ice shelf expected to break off
DAILY BLOG REVIEW / coming later…
A reader writes…
An LC reader wrote in with this email. She was happy for it to be published.
I am a “UNISON” shop steward. My landlords The Eltham Constituency Labour Party have just applied to Woolwich County Court for a Bailiff appointment to evict me from their property,
my home, of 26 years.
The response by my MP, Clive Efford, when I advised him of their actions:
CE ‘why are you telling me this?’
ACD ‘because you are my M…’
CE ‘well I’m a tenant too’ and away he hurried.
Yes, he is a tenant as regards his office, but not his home. They videoed their last inspection. The last time they [only] photographed an inspection, they threatened to publish the results. I’m thinking that’s what they will say and do this time. I expect the footage is on You Tube by now.
Dawn Butler, Tony McNulty, Jacqui Smith they have homes aplenty and expenses. Me? No home…and humiliation
Annie D
Top Stories – 4th April
Nationwide
Personal web data to be stored for a year
Obama scoops British book prize
Egg thrown at woman wearing hijab
UK to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan
International
Video of Taliban flogging rattles Pakistan
Charities paid for cash lost in Icelandic crash
Is Syria getting coming in from the cold?
China is in a Dollar trap it wants to escape
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