Casting the net – PM for a day
11:16 am - March 21st 2008
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Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments
Enough
Democracy Now! – Winter Soldier
En masse, veterans from the Afghan and Iraqi theatres speak out on the truth behind the propaganda.
Highlights
Blood & Treasure – as opposed to humans
What is it about the Hollywood cause célèbre, Tibet, that so animates the “liberal intelligentsia”?
The Daily (Maybe) – Jim Jay’s Political Power Act
You’ve just been elected PM with a stonking majority (elections? Pah! I always dreamed of a bloody coup). What would be the first law(s) you would introduce? Jim Jay indulges in the fantasy.
NHS Blog Doctor – Nadine Dorries – the “MP nurse-specialist”
Oh dear, even old Dr. Crippen is on Dorries’ case. Quote: “God knows, I am no fan of late abortions, and there is indeed a strong case to be made against them. But not like this. This is utter garbage.” Heh.
Chicken Yoghurt – Porcelain Gods
Despite being the all-powerful creator of everything, he’s a touchy bugger.
And finally, The Sun gets its knickers in a twist here and here. [warning: this involves the twin evils – see predictable tabloid outrage – of immigration and paedophilia].
Elsewhere
Sunder Katwala/CiF – Neocon tricks
Seumas Milne/CiF – Blowback all over again
Schneider Home – Russia’s 2nd Parliament
James Graham – Is Nick Harvey happy being the unacceptable face of Parliament?
Liberal England – Is the European project still internationalist?
The latest Realpolitik podcast is up.
If you would like your blog or site to be considered as source material for future reviews, drop me an email at aaronh [at] liberalconspiracy [dot] org with the relevant url. I can then enter it into my RSS reader and monitor it for suitable content to be included. Likewise, if you have a specific article/post you feel deserves a little more traffic, get in touch.
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Aaron Murin-Heath is an occasional contributor. He is a writer based in Newark-on-Trent and Tallinn, Estonia. He is both socially and economically liberal. Aaron blogs at tygerland.net.
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Reader comments
Thanks Aaron – two mentions in one casting the net, wow!
Aaron,
I respect what you do here. I am a little troubled at the Tibet bit above. It seems to me that the Chinese invasion of Tibet was, whoops a daisy, just a tiny bit imperial?
The article to which you link is a Chinese apologia, which is answered pretty well in it’s own comments.
Run this by me again? Are we supposed to know that you link to folk we would automatically disagree with? I think the folk of Auchtermuchty need a telling. (Old Express joke, you are all too young to get it.)
Hi Douglas,
I hope readers agree with some of the articles I link to, and disagree with others. I’m really just highlighting interesting posts. If some are controversial and spike a reaction, then great.
Also, I think it would be dangerous to assume that I have linked to posts I personally agree with. I don’t “endorse” any of the opinions recommended, unless I explicitly say so in the comments. I even linked to Ann Coulter on one occasion…
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