It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for some Monty Python, but first the news.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
- Labour’s totally contradictory messages – in the same leaflet! Jonathan Wallace highlights the Labour leaflet that contradicts itself on successive pages
- Question Time Woking – Did I tell you I was there? 😉 Lisa Harding tells the tale
Spotted any other great posts in the last day from blogs that aren’t on the aggregator? Do post up a comment sharing them with us all.
2 Big Stories
Katyn touches another Polish generation
He died en route to the most sensitive mission possible — a visit to the place that has driven a wedge between Poles and Russians for three generations.
The death of Lech Kaczynski, Poland’s president and dozens of his high-level countrymen in a plane crash, and the purpose behind the journey, laid bare the deep divisions that remain between two nations still struggling to be more than uneasy neighbors who watch each other with skepticism and suspicion.
Saturday’s planned visit to the Katyn forest was somber in purpose but underscored his suspicious eye of the massive neighbor and former taskmaster to the east. The memorial service was to mark the 70th anniversary of the killing of thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet secret security during World War II. (AP)
Giving up climate treaty may unblock U.N. deal
The prospect of a global climate treaty is fading as the world’s top two carbon emitters, China and the United States, avoid legally binding action. Experts say a shift to a less ambitious goal might help.
Less focus on a new treaty might resolve a tangle of disputes over the legal framework and drive concrete action, for example to preserve rainforests or to help developing nations cope with droughts, heatwaves, floods or rising seas. (Reuters)
Sunday Bonus
How to perservere even if things go wrong during the making of a party political broadcast:
(Also on YouTube here)
One Comment
Thanks for the blog link guys. Much appreciated!
Lisa