Casting the net - Policy Exchange caught with their trousers down?


by Aaron Heath    
December 14, 2007 at 12:27 pm

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review.

Godson reacts sans humility
Policy Exchange are accused of fabricating a report on literature available in British Mosques. The blogosphere has more…

Obsolete - Policy Exchange rumbled by Newsnight.
The Green Ribbon - Newsnight on the Godson Approach to Political Warfare
Ministry of Truth - Can I have a receipt for that?
Big Sticks and Small Carrots - Predetermined Outcomes, Part 2

Highlights
PoliticalBetting.com - Were these the front pages Gord wanted to avoid?
Gordon Brown yesterday played imperfect politics. Arriving late to sign the Lisbon Treaty, he offended cosignatories and Europhobes alike.

John’s Labour Blog - George Galloway: My part in his downfall
Did John Gray really bring down everyone’s favourite pussycat?

Robin Lustig - Playing happy families in the Kremlin
Will Putin be the humble PM to a new President? Nah, Lustig doesn’t think so either. [unstable link? try here]

Polly Toynbee/CiF - The state is not public enemy number one
Finally, a defender of the government’s record on Civil Liberties. Right! Get her boys.

Greg Anrig/CiF - The real test the US keeps flunking
America must address the race-based inequalities in its education system, or suffer a further comparative decline.

Love and Liberty - A Vote For Chris (featuring Chris’ answer to a nasty question you’ve probably seen elsewhere)
The election for the LibDem leadership closes tomorrow, Lib Dem’r Alex Wilcock gives a lengthy explanation as to why last-minute voters should back Chris Huhne.

Love and Liberty - A Vote For Nick (featuring Nick’s ‘EXCLUSIVE’ answer to a nasty question)
The election for the LibDem leadership closes tomorrow, Lib Dem’r Alex Wilcock gives a lengthy explanation as to why last-minute voters should back Nick Clegg.

Very Clever. I see what you did there, Alex.

Pluggage
As UN troops prepare for deployment in Darfur they still lack essential helicopters. blogolob is petitioning the Premier to lead by example - by sending a handful of British choppers, hopefully shaming the international community into action. Sign it here.

Elsewhere
Al Gore/Independent - The world can’t wait for George Bush
Freemania - Blame where credit’s not due
New Humanist - Is the Pope Catholic? The religious views of the new England manager
Adam Boulton - Brown In Brussels
Cicero’s Songs - The Last Trump for Salmond
Murad Qureshi AM/TMP - We need to get out and vote in London
The Whiskey Priest - Realpolitik 7: Wiiii! (the latest episode of this promising political podcast)
The Labour Humanist Group - Labour Humanists debate faith based welfare

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at 2:20 pm on December 14, 2007
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1.  comment by
     DonaldS

Apart from Melanie Phillips, obviously, that Polly Toynbee article is the most deluded, ill-informed gobbledegook I’ve ever had the misfortune to waste 5 minutes of my life reading. It doesn’t even make sense in its own terms, never mind chime with the outside world.

at 5:23 pm on December 14, 2007
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2.  comment by
     Steve M

Thanks for the link.

I find it astonishing that not one country has managed to contribute a single helicopter to the UN’s Peacekeeping force for Darfur. Hence the petition .

Other actions are planned as I feel that we must pressure our governments to act to try to end the rapes and massacres.

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