Best of the web 02/09/09

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Over the last year or so we have seen many episodes, ranging from Ross and Brand, to Sir Fred Goodwin, to MPs? expenses, in which the public has reacted against what it sees as unacceptable behaviour. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of what might be called the ?architecture? of moral choice.
http://www.matthewtaylorsblog.com/politics/eduardo-and-the-architecture-of-morality/

Putin’s take on WW2 reflects Russia’s difficult relationship with its history.
http://threethousandversts.blogspot.com/2009/09/putin-reflects-russias-take-on-world.html

The suggestion on one of the Coir posters that the minimum wage might come down to £1.84 is not an assertion per se (and Kenny was “helpful” enough to point out that it comes with a rhetorical question mark) as such, and therefore it is not quite grown up enough to be a full scale lie.
http://sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/comments/lisbon-not-all-facts-are-subject-to-individual-belief-or-1.84-and-all-that/

Former British Ambassador Charles Crawford examines closely Prime Minister Putin’s ‘long letter to Poland’ and wonders why so many gullible Western media outlets have said that he “condemned the immorality of the Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact” – when he carefully didn’t.
http://charlescrawford.biz/blog/NT6YGQ984141