My version of casting the net went up yesterday and got a lot of lovely comments so big thumbs up for that. As usual you can head over and see it at Liberal Conspiracy.

Just to inform you, I've been extremely busy recently with various work and meetings, but I've got a backlog of stories that you can expect to see here over the next week. I'll be backing up Unity's outrage at Christianity in reference to abortion law, questioning the relevance of school expulsion figures, wondering a bit more about the future for 42 day campaigning, reflecting on the last 12 months of Brown as well as the usual stories that tend to pop up, so keep checking back regularly!

Here is the review as posted over at the other site...

Welcome to the Thursday casting the net. It's Henley by-election today so exciting times for 24 hours and I'm sure a wealth of links fo Aaron tomorrow. Yesterday was the blog nation event, and this week has provided great material to blog on, so here are the links. Feel free to post up your favourite links in the comments, especially thoughts on last night's Lib Con event. As always please send lovely tips to tips[at]liberalconspiracy[dot]org!

Brian Barder - What Jacqui Smith said yesterday regarding Homosexuality and Iran is completely unacceptable and it certain seems to have irked a fair number of us out there.
Max Dunbar - A thoroughly interesting and, from my perspective, spot on analysis of a recent occurrence on Big Brother. With so much tension around, the actions of the few muslims and immigrants in the house are bound to be under scrutiny.
Beeblebear/ukpolitics - If you're brown and muslim then the moment the police break in to your house to arrest you you're targeted by the media immediately. Kiddy fiddling, fascist, white terrorist? Well you'll make the paper only when charged.
Neil Harding - He doesn't like Labour MPs unless they've got a spine.
Harpymarx - Harpymarx is turning the screw on recent news about homosexual discrimination, Smith...Heinz...it's all part of a bigger problem.
Remembering the ability in Disability - An interesting perspective on the toy world and the ideals they perhaps unwittingly bestow upon us.
Program your own mind - And here is a shameless self-link, with my review of the blog nation event last night.

Casting back:

SJ Howard - Tories a year ago were feeling a bit sore over a defection. I wonder who's crying now?

Below is a list of blogs I've liked from the last 24 hours for the extended casting the net, with Thursday evening/Friday morning much more interesting than Thursday morning was across the blogosphere! You can of course click to continue reading at the bottom of the post and see the whole list on this site.

MatGB - A reflection on Labour's last decade or so sparked this post by Mat.
Obsolete - Septicisle looks in to the Haltemprice by election and the candidates running.
Political Betting - Talking of those candidates, is this the dark horse to watch?
Gavin's Gaily Gigest - Gavin is back from his hols and tries to head off the usual analysis of by elections at the pass.
Bristol Blogger - Looking at the Bristol situation of increasing living costs, an interesting excerpt details the danger of how we oppose Bristol congestion charging.