Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section. Today’s links could care less what you do with them once they’re dead. Why? Because they’d be dead.
Organ Grinding
Watch out for Dizzy “Thinks” accusing Justin of writing an “intellectually vapid piece”. Apparently, Justin now refuses to come out of his room until Dizzy apologises.
Justin McKeating - Monkeys and the organ minder
Cassilis - After death there is no ‘you’…
Polly Toynbee/CiF - Living people matter. When you’re dead, you’re dead
Bob Piper - Mouth… organs
Libby Purves/Times - Whose body is it anyway?
Dizzy Thinks - Lots of nonsense on organ donations from Liberal Conspiracy and elsewhere
Iain Dale - Brown Wants to Nationalise Our Bodies
The Diary of Chris K - The Organ Grinder…
The Yorksher Gob - Organ Donation
Sim-O’s Random Thoughts - What to do with the offal?
Thomas Sutcliffe - Have a heart and sign up to organ donation
Tony’s Blog - Much offal
Vino S - In favour of an ‘opt-out’ system of organ donation
So, how about this: we let the Tories win this one, and the dead are burned and buried, complete with all their gooey bits. Oh, and more people die. What a result, eh?
Elsewhere
Though Cowards Flinch - The Role of the State
Seema Malhotra/Compass - Westminster’s democratic deficit shames political system
Jon Worth - British press and the EU: yesterday numberplates, today sausages
Mike Allen/Politico - Clinton, Obama seek truce on race row
Chicken Backup - The Profligate Peter Hain
Skipper - Peter Hain Looks Like ‘Toast’
DM Andy’s blog - It’s election day… in Barbados
yourfriendinthenorth - Ware did it all go wrong?
Westminster Wisdom - The Political Theory of Reservoir Dogs
Mike Rouse - News at Ten Returns
Dave Cole - Stop the War Coalition and Channel Four
Also, check out the New Statesman, which is running a series of pieces on “Life After Bush.”
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