Welcome to the July 10th edition of casting the net. Contributions as usual to tips[at]liberalconspiracy[dot]org to let us know of the amazing works being posted around. This has been a quiet week, maybe it’s just the weather, but with a hilarious Harriet Harman performance in PMQs, a communities bill announcement, the G8 summit and (of course) the H&H by-election I expected more. Bad bloggers, must do better! As usual my extended round up will be up shortly on my blog.
The Register - OK, not a blog but Sunny will poke me with sharp, hot things if I post where I got this link from. Jacqui Smith and the government start a propaganda site to indoctrinate our children in to ID cards. Fails spectacularly.
Andreas’ Blog - Someone is a little critical of those calling themselves liberal these days.
A Lanson boy - Who do those liberals think they are, telling our children to be off our streets by 9pm?
Though Cowards Flinch - David is unimpressed with the politics of fear, especially the Tories hypocritical role in it.
Lib Dem Voice - Who said what now? Certainly it seems David Davis is in the clear despite many Lib Dem supporters anger.
CiF/Jenni Russell - 60 years on, not everything about the NHS is diamond.
Craig’s LGBT Blog - A bit of a round up from TUC LGBT Conference, including thoughts on the “blood ban”.
Casting back:
The New Yorker (2006) - America changes its stance on Iran, barely. With recent developments in Iran, this is some interesting background reading.
The Register is an excellent IT/tech news source, what with CCTV, ID cards, the government’s war on photography etc., it’s always there with scathing and informed comment.
BoingBoing always keeps a good eye out for people taking liberties too.
Yeah I often use it to get good IT news, and the fact it takes comments from the public makes it pretty much a blog anyway ;) Not seen BoingBoing, cheers.
Not seen BoingBoing, cheers.
Qué? Lee? It’s Boing Boing. Not reading it, I get, it’s very high traffic and I took it from my feeds about a year ago, but not aware of it? It’s Boing Boing. Top 5 global blog:
http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top
If you’re interested in online free speech, copyright infringement crap, blogging generally, etc it’s a pretty good source. Just don’t mention Violet Blue…
I dunno, young bloggers these days, I can remember a day when everyone read all the main blogs…
(I can’t recall what I did to relieve the boredom though…)
Meh, clearly never had the need to go find it is all :P
Am I the only one who wants to see Sunny poking you with hot sharp things? Just for the fun of it… ;)
thelocal.se is also a good source for Swedish news in English, which should be of interest to everyone at the moment as the ‘Moderate’ (Conservative) government just adopted the most draconian surveillance laws in Europe - and they’ve got the tech know-how to make it work too. Nu Labor must be salivating with envy.
Mind you, once all the tech companies have left Sweden there won’t be much left worth spying on any more.
- direct link -
BritSwedeGuy