German savings pledge raises stakes for Gordon Brown

Elsewhere
42-day detention maybe not dropped as unworkable
McCain team gets personal
The £2trillion question: Will Brown guarantee deposits?
Va. GOP fears McCain could lose the state
Stocks fall. Everyone dies.

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Senator Stuart Svyret has some exclusive and shocking updates on the Jersey child abuse scandal (hat-tip: Jonathan Calder)

Charlie Stross wonders how we’re all going to cope with the first recession of the internet age.

Lib Dem Voice is giving a platform to all three presidential candidates. Two of the three have so far posted articles. At the risk of sounding like James Graham: where’s Lemby?

Political Betting wishes a very happy first birthday to Gordon Brown’s biggest cock-up.

Anton Vowl has discovered that not content with nicking stuff from Beau Bo, the Fail are now stealing from Fox News.

Laariii posts on the reason why even though women are breaking into male-dominated workplaces, men are not rushing to female-dominated jobs in the Bad Feminists group blog.

I’m still picking on the party’s public stance on equality (or lack thereof)

Amused Cynicism is chronicling the continuing assault on our civil liberties.

Ryan Cullen has created a special new version of Digg especially for Lib Dem members, although apparently anyone can look, so if you want to go see what excites geeky Lib Dems, knock yourself out. I don’t see the point of it myself, but James Graham likes it, so it MUST be useful… ;)

And amid all these tales of woe there’s one little beardy ray of sunshine, and it’s the Honourable Lady Mark Valladares, who has found recycling provision in Devon to be mightily impressive.