Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily blog review. No time for commentary today, so just a selection of links from the weekend’s blogs.

Highlights
Cassilis - Hoist on their own petard: If there’s a moral high ground in party funding then it’s been a helluva long time since any of the three main parties paid a visit.

Rupa Huq’s home on the web - Morrissey: he speaks, he sues (and if he seems little dotty that’s because he is): Morrissey is not exactly Nick Griffin. He’s more pop’s equivalent of Tony Benn: a chap of longevity whose current status is loveable eccentric, still capable of voicing controversial views.

TMP - JRF: Government’s anti-poverty strategy needs major rethink: Half of all children in poverty are in working families – this is similar to a decade ago. Low wages therefore continue to be an issue.

The Diary of Chris K - Party Funding: Anyone got a spare £100,000?: We have got ourselves into a situation where the press and many people assume that anyone who gives large sums of money to political parties is trying to get some kind of favour in return. By and large I don’t think that’s accurate. The people who give lots of money are motivated by the same things which motivate people who give the odd ten quid - the desire to support the party they most agree with.

Love and Garbage - The decline of the Scottish political scandal: If one examines the political scandals that have given the greatest amount of pleasure to the British public, the scandals whose story is known in general outline to almost everyone and which are rehashed over and over again in the Sunday papers, one finds a fairly strong family resemblance running through the greater number of them. It’s sex.

Jock’s Place - Labour “Guinness Four” moment?: I have news for the four thousand or so politicians and their hangers on at Westminster - not one of you is indispensable.

Elsewhere
The Nether-World - The Truth About the ‘Special Relationship’ With The Empire
Pickled Politics/Rumbold - Vincemania, and the reality?
openDemocracy/50.50 - HIV/Aids: More than numbers (part 1)
Clairwil - Is this a phase?
The Spade - Parisian French not acceptable in Québec
And Philobiblon has the latest Britblog Roundup (no. 146).

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