Best of the Blogs: 09/10/09

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Liberal Conspiracy: Sun forced into crushing apology over Prof. Nutt

Back in November the Sun decided that it was time to resort to the old tabloid trick of attacking someone by association when they couldn’t lay a finger on the target himself personally.

David Nutt, a senior adviser on drugs to the ACMD, had just been defenestrated by Alan Johnson for daring to argue again that cannabis isn’t as dangerous as either the government claims or its classification suggests.

So naturally it was time to go scouting around his children’s social networking pages to see if they could find any pay dirt.

Liberal Conspiracy: All the full lol-plot pics (32!), with new ‘Mandelkitteh’

Thanks to all of you who made these pics and sent them in (or tweeted them). I think this joke has run its course now, although ‘Mandelkitteh’ seems to have become a favourite for most of you.

Now doubt we’ll be seeing more of him in the future.

In the meantime here is the full collection. If you create any more please just link them from the comments section.

Liberal Conspiracy: Is David Miliband the biggest loser from attempted coup?

Steve Richards is right in saying there are only two options for Cabinet ministers in a coup: wholehearted declarations of support or insurrection. Miliband took so long, and the statement was so convoluted, that the charge of being a ‘ditherer’ like Brown is starting to stick.

38 Degrees: MAKE SURE TONY BLAIR FACES TOUGH QUESTIONS IN PUBLIC ON IRAQ

Early next year former Prime Minister Tony Blair will give evidence, in public, to the Chilcot Inquiry. Tony Blair made the decision to take us to war in Iraq: this is our chance to shine a light on the decisions and actions that led to his choice.

Blair might try and dodge answering difficult questions by claiming there are security issues: we need to make sure that doesn’t happen by demanding that he address questions to which we want the answers in public.

Channel 4: Extraordinary news from another northern rock

Iceland’s president has provoked a constitutional crisis by refusing to sign the bill that is supposed to compensate UK taxpayers for £2.3bn used to bail out British savers in the ill-fated Icesave.

Keen viewers will be aware that two years ago, Channel 4 News flew to Reykjavik to ask some tough questions to its central bank governor, David Oddsson, about billions of pounds of ordinary UK savers’ money that had been sucked up to Iceland by internet savings accounts.

The report is here It has won four major broadcast news awards.