Top Stories and Blog Review - 15th Oct


by Newswire    
October 15, 2008 at 11:44 am

Obama ahead 14% in latest polls

And more…
Colour may not work against Obama
Convincing Jews to vote Obama
Novel on India takes Booker prize
World press praises Gordon Brown
Israeli papers shun pictures of upcoming woman PM
Royal Mail honours ‘Women of Distinction’
US unveils $250bn banking rescue
Storm over Big Brother database
Long sentences ‘overload prisons’

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Aaron Heath

Shami Chakrabarti/CiF - Somewhat enjoying the government’s defeat over 42-days. A victory for “common-sense”.

Paul Linford - If David Davis is “vindicated”, will Cameron bring him back as Shadow Home Secretary?

The Daily (Maybe) - On the scrapping of Key Stage 3 testing.

donpaskini - On the Dem’s most effective ad.

The Angry Black Woman - Racism - the worst kind - is threatening to destabilise this election.

Political Byline - As William F. Buckley’s son Chris comes out for Obama, will more principled conservatives finally say enough is enough, and take back their party?

TPM - Palin has failed in her first national security test: the Russians have invaded Alaska. Heh.

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at 11:52 am on October 15, 2008
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     John Band

“Racism - the worst kind”

As opposed to the good kind and the OK-ish kind, presumably?

at 1:30 pm on October 15, 2008
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     Aaron Heath

John,

Please. Don’t be a git.

There are lots of shades of racism. But I think the lynching kind is probably the worst.

at 2:23 pm on October 15, 2008
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     ukliberty

Shami Chakrabarti/CiF - Somewhat enjoying the government’s defeat over 42-days. A victory for “common-sense”.

Defeated but not beaten. There is already a new bill that will be introduced in an ‘emergency’.

at 2:30 pm on October 15, 2008
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     john b

Hmm. While obviously I see where you’re coming from, I thought it seemed like an ill-judged phrase in the context.

More pragmatically, it’s the sort of thing that will actually alienate moderate-ish people with mild racist leanings, rather than the kind of under-the-radar dog-whistle stuff that people can fool themselves is OK…

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