Weekend links.
No overall theme again this weekend, so let's just get straight into it. On the blogs, there's my gun control/school shootings post mirrored on Lib Con, where there's an informative and interesting debate in the comments, Blairwatch notes that Iraq is set to execute 128 prisoners, as well as sentencing show throwers to three years in prison, 5cc on Mail Watch highlights the Mail's continuing emphasis on immigration, Craig Murray lets us know how the JCHR treated the email campaign that he launched, Shiraz Socialist looks at the link between the Revolutionary Communist Party, that band of libertarians and their influence on current Tory thinking re: multiculturalism, rhetorically speaking, Anton Vowl and Daily Quail tackle the continuing fallout from the Luton demonstrations, Laurie Penny mirrors her Red Pepper article on Britney Spears and Alix Mortimer looks at the cynicism behind David Cameron's apology over his party's economic policy.
In the papers, Matthew Parris tries to find out what the Conservatives' foreign policy is and fails, Janice Turner, riffing on the blackmailed BMW heir, suggests that empowered women have few qualms about paying for sex, Deborah Orr says that apologies change nothing, Howard Jacobson amusingly as always talks of the boredom of existence, Christina Patterson, noting the bizarre current fascination with Ayn Rand says she's the last role model we need right now, Tristam Hunt attacks the Mail over their own assaults on Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, and Jeremy Clarkson (yep, Jeremy Clarkson) pisses all over his fellow Sun columnist's efforts with an actually rather good piece on "common sense".
As for worst tabloid article of the weekend, you can make your own decision. You can either go with the Sun's attack on the BBC for daring to broadcast an interview with Binyam Mohamed, when they certainly didn't go after the Mail on Sunday in a similar way who got there first, or with the horror of yet another fucking article in the Times by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal about his split from the equally loathsome Liz Jones, via the fact that Jake Myerson obviously wasn't treated as badly as he was.
In the papers, Matthew Parris tries to find out what the Conservatives' foreign policy is and fails, Janice Turner, riffing on the blackmailed BMW heir, suggests that empowered women have few qualms about paying for sex, Deborah Orr says that apologies change nothing, Howard Jacobson amusingly as always talks of the boredom of existence, Christina Patterson, noting the bizarre current fascination with Ayn Rand says she's the last role model we need right now, Tristam Hunt attacks the Mail over their own assaults on Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, and Jeremy Clarkson (yep, Jeremy Clarkson) pisses all over his fellow Sun columnist's efforts with an actually rather good piece on "common sense".
As for worst tabloid article of the weekend, you can make your own decision. You can either go with the Sun's attack on the BBC for daring to broadcast an interview with Binyam Mohamed, when they certainly didn't go after the Mail on Sunday in a similar way who got there first, or with the horror of yet another fucking article in the Times by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal about his split from the equally loathsome Liz Jones, via the fact that Jake Myerson obviously wasn't treated as badly as he was.
Labels: weekend, weekend links, weekend round-up
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