I’ve decided to start posting the Missing Link Daily Twitter production here as a daily digest. Note that I cover “alternative media” (non-MSM fairly loosely defined) as well as blogs. Feedback welcome. Anyway I’ll be suspending it for Christmas in a couple of days.
- Crikey roundup of Xmas Island sinking tragedy coverage; Ken Parish on bastardry from both extremes
- Clare Sambrook focuses on Britain’s punitive asylum seeker detention policies
- Khalid Koser: Responding to Boat Arrivals in Australia: Time for a Reality Check (Lowy Inst)
- Richard Farmer: Rudd’s conduct of foreign affairs is revenge served cold
- David Alexander argues Australia has found politically viable way of keeping the state both fair and relatively small
- Juan Cole: Fox News ordered journos to spin global warming; Fox also makes you stupid
- Alex White: Essential climate graphs for dealing with your denialist uncle at Xmas lunch
- Brendan O’Neill focuses on watering down of the criminal law double jeopardy rule in Britain
- Overlawyered: Maccas subject of California class action over Happy Meals with toys
- Wagner et al on tender-based alternative to emissions trading or carbon taxation
- December edition of feminist blogging carnival (links to lots of feminist posts)
- Kevin Donnelly on latest PISA international comparisons of literacy, numeracy of oz 15 year olds
- Lucía Atehortúa: Farming in cities could help feed the world
- Simon Grove: Forestry still getting a bum rap
- Joshua Hammer: Nelson Mandela combined greatness with pettiness, compassion with coldness, altruism with selfishness