by Aaron
December 20, 2007 at 10:01 am
Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review.
Highlights
Clairwil - Having A Pop At Herion Addicts
A compelling, hard-line view on talking Britain’s addiction to hard drugs
Crooked Timber - Belgium: time out of the political crisis
A sticky plaster has been placed on the seething wound that is Belgian politics.
Nick Clegg - Together, we can build Britain’s liberal future
The newly elected Lib Dem leader sets out his stall.
Politicalbetting.com - How important is believing in God?
Paul Linford - Clegg says no to English Parliament (and God)
Bob Piper - God botherers
In the States it would make him a presidential dead-duck, but does Clegg’s atheism even matter?
donpaskini - Telling lies about poverty
The Tories claim to be progressives. Yeah, whatever.
John B/The Sharpener - Opposition to immigration is inherently immoral
Claiming the moral high-ground in defence of the indigenous poor doesn’t bear scrutiny.
Elsewhere
Andrew Brown - Facebook is like Hotel California, but you might want to leave Andrew Brown
Andrew Hinton - Lib-Connery
James Graham - Homeophobia? I am not a scientist but…
Wongablog - Rampant Homeophobia
Compass Youth - A new chapter? Forging a truly progressive response to the threat of terrorism
Michelle Goldberg/CiF - Mike Huckabee, conservative golem
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Interesting that you chose to link to Bob Piper’s piece slagging off me and Mike Smithson for having raised the issue of Clegg’s atheism rather than either of our original blog posts.
I’ve blogged about this over at Pickled Politics although not with the same hardline Piper angle. It simply makes no sense to rile people up into an us versus them situation over this issue.
Hi Paul,
These are certainly not endorsements of any position!
No offence intended. The link is to a controversial opinion, and people can follow the links included at Bob’s, and make their own opinion. I’ll retrospectively add the links myself, now.
It is, perhaps unintentionally, a very good answer for the Lib Dems at least in terms of publicity. It has clearly sparked a lot of talk without any one real feeling breaking through, at which Nick Clegg is the centre. Master stroke or happy coincidence?
I know a lot of atheists both in and out of the LDs who have been feeling increasingly disenfranchised by current politics; research also shows that About 70 of the UK is “ethnically CofE” but doesn’t actually believe in God (myself included). I think it’s a masterstroke, and I say that as a total non-Clegg-fan
Hi. Just to point out that I (Andrew Hinton) am the author of the post “Lib-Connery”, and indeed all of my blog, which takes its title from a quote from Lawrence Miles, who otherwise has nothing to do with my blog.
You managed to get my name right the other day!
Andrew,
Corrected. Apologies. I’m pretty rubbish some days. Just ask the Mrs.
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