Around the blogs

Saturday morning round up

A quick look around the blogosphere before nipping out to the shops (the afternoon needs to remain free to listen to Sunderland racking up a third consecutive win in their game at Fulham.)

• Iain Dale reveals that Gordon Brown has invoked the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to persuade Labour MPs not to rebel against the price of beer and the abolition of the 10p tax rate. Perhaps he doesn’t see how the abolition of the 10p rate has caused hardship to millions of low wage earners.
• Dizzy seems to share the same intuition over the Shannon Matthews case as Mrs. Curly
• Cranmer postulates that the Daily Mail may be deliberately stoking Islamophobia in article about an educational argument in Bristol.
• Ellee Seymour has some “nod and wink” tips for those who fancy a flutter on the Grand National
• Man in a Shed attacks the moronic pronouncement from the government yesterday that would require paedophiles to register their email addresses - what a pile! (You can get a temporary email address to log in to a website in less than five minutes.)
• Coffee House has two excellent videos to commemorate the 40th. anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.
• Justin at Chicken Yoghurt reckons Gordon Brown is driving everyone to drink!
• Oh, and The Northern Herald threatens to return next week after what must have been a very short election campaign for someone. (BTW, someone who tells me that they are far too busy to visit blogs during the hectic election campaigns still finds the odd few seconds to have a quick gander at his mate’s musings.)

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