Monday

• Philip Johnston at the Telegraph's Three Line Whip writes about the "dark side of internet...[because it] allows for indoctrination and radicalisation of vulnerable and impressionable young men in their bedrooms by faceless zealots." Yet, really, how different is this to any other form of mass communication? The internet is just a bit more accessible is all.
• Matt Wardman asks which ad agency you would trust to write your own blog slogan. Personally, I just prefer to make up my own.
• Watt Tyler at Burning Our Money demonstrates that Yvette Cooper is talking Balls when she says that nationalising Northern Rock has been "costless". There's no such thing as a free lunch - or nationalisation.

• Peter Cuthbertson at ConservativeHome's CentreRight says that Cuba's hospitals are as dirty as it's dictatorship. And that is very, very dirty. Even worse than an NHS hospital, even...
• Fraser Nelson at the Spectator's Coffee House remarks that the Lib Dems have returned to their traditional fence-sitting position. On the EU "Treaty" this time. As if we really expected anything like a principled stand from a Lib Dem, even Opik?!
• CityUnslicker at Capitalists@Work fisks the Left's defence of Darling's nationalisation of Northern Rock. Truly, they are excreable.

• Asp chews over what it means to be English and challenges anyone to justify how an English council can celebrate Chinese New Year and yet not mark St. George's Day at all. Can it be justified? I don't think so.
• Norfolk Blogger is praising a Tory MP. Surely some mistake?
• Gracchi at Westminster Wisdom writes about how student lifestyles are too career-focused nowadays. I don't recall it being massively career-centric, but then again there's a lot of those four years that I don't quite recall...

• Mike Smithson at Political Betting asks whether it's time to start betting on President Tony. Hopefully not.
• Paul Linford ponders the question of whether MPs who get voted out should ever go back. I suppose it all depends on the individual and what they can bring to Parliament. So yes and no.
• Mr Eugenides heralds the idea of blogging lessons in school. As he points out, learning can indeed be fun!

• Daniel Finkelstein at the Times' Comment Central proposes a British answer to beating Barack Obama. To be honest, to me it would seem idiotic of America to waste this opportunity to elect a President like Obama. He has what America needs.
• Guido Fawkes writes about the backfiring of the Tory's Auschwitz "gimmick" jibe. Whoever included that in the press release needs to real bollocking.

• Iain Dale thinks about who should be on the DNA database. Frankly, only those who have been convicted of a charge should definitely be kept on the database. But anyone who has been charged and taken to court over an offence such as murder or rape should probably be kept on as well.
• Madsen Pirie at the ASI keeps the "Common Errors" series going with a post debunking the myth that "the market cannot protect the environment". So much for it taking government control to protect the environment. [One thing I'd like to be able to see is this entire series in one list.]
  

• Benedict Brogan compares the predicament of Commons Speaker Michael Martin to the "Blair saga". There are certain similarities...
  
• Tim Worstall tells us why to never bother going north of the Watford Gap. He has a point...