Best of the web 09/09/09

Hi and welcome to our new series of posts rounding up the best articles on the web each day courtesy of bloggerscircle.net

Liver and ice-cream
Douglas Carswell is an interesting figure. I admire his radicalism and his readiness to fight for reform. He is, according to his lights, a true friend of democratic reform. That?s the ice-cream. The liver is that I thoroughly disagree with his political starting-point - that “vile elites” of pro-European leftists have taken over the British state and need to be exterminated by the cleansing power of the referendum.
http://www.demsoc.org/blog/2009/09/09/liver-and-ice-cream/ debating http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/09/interview-with-douglas-carswell-mp.html

BSF and Waste.
The Building Schools for the Future programme has once again been accused of tremendous waste. Moving companies after 5 years experience of the programme, Joe Nutt offers a few reflections that might be of value to anyone serious about improving secondary schools.
http://joenutt.squarespace.com/educational-research-and-news/2009/9/9/bsf-and-waste.html

The Future of Newspapers
Mark Thompson predicts that Rupert Murdoch’s pay-wall plan will not work and tries to extrapolate what the future may hold for the “dead-tree press” in the digital future based on current trends:
http://markreckons.blogspot.com/2009/09/future-of-newspapers.html