Top Stories and Blog Review - 23rd Nov


by Jennie Rigg    
November 23, 2008 at 11:24 am

VAT cut planned for Christmas

Nationwide
Tories attack Boris’s immigrant amnesty
Popular science myths to be smashed
Police to get 10,000 taser guns
BNP members held over leafleting

International
Big earthquake strikes off Indonesian coast
Muslim leaders denounce Obama slur
Top scientist rails against Bush hirings
India shocked by discovery of first Hindu terror cell

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Anton Vowl dissects news coverage of the death of Rashid Rauf.

Simon Titley on Lib Dem Voice discusses what lessons the Lib Dems can learn from the leaking of the BNP membership list.

Political Betting discusses Obama’s cabinet choices.

Andy Wainwright is annoyed that the media don’t give better coverage to the Greens and Lib Dems.

Alex Wilcock is celebrating Doctor Who’s forty-fifth anniversary (as am I! Happy Whoday, everyone!)

Junkfood Science is unsurprised at what happened when doctors were shown pictures of overweight and obese children - only 29% of them were correctly categorised.

The Honourable Lady Mark Valladares spots a disturbing centralising trend in the Lib Dems English Candidates committee.

Costigan Quist extrapolates from the news that children in rear-facing buggies grow into more rounded individuals, and ties together several strands of Liberal thought.

And, as always, Septicisle has more.

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