This weeks Thursday casting the net is up now on Liberal Conspiracy

I'm about there now on the parliamentary and debate pieces, as I've decided to just write a bit about my views of party politics and its weaknesses in modern democracy. I'm also going to be posting about some ridiculous comments by Alex Hilton over at Recess Monkey, and also a bit of a review of the new youth site for promoting (haha!) the ID card scheme.

Now for the best of the rest...

Bristol Blogger - So congestion was dropping in Bristol from 2002 to 2006, now that Bristol has put shit loads of stupid traffic lights up who wants to be it's gone up and will be used as proof of need for C-Charging?
CiF/Matthew Taylor - Another look at David Cameron. Yes, he's a smooth talker right now, but is he electable?
Jock's Place - Another great view on the surveillance society.
Political Betting - Is there scope for Ken to make a comeback, PBC looks at the odds.
Dizzy Thinks - Beeond werds, how kan riteing like thes be rewerded?
Devil's Kitchen - Just how stupid do you have to be to try and pull this kind of stunt, pretending a 67 year old man is a 90 year old war veteran?

Did you know that every year 300 of us will die due to a fatal accident in the work place? How about that 400 of us die every year from domestic house fires, over half of which could have been prevented through use of a smoke alarm? What about the fact that almost 3,000 people die as a result of car accidents that at least a third could have been prevented by simply abiding by the law?

Perhaps most shocking of all, and I come to this subject cautiously given media (tabloid) involvement in it in the past, is that over 2,700 children under the age of 13 are raped every year and this figure is rising. Whether it's rising because (thankfully) reporting these crimes is becoming more common or because it's happening more is fairly inconsequential to the fact the problem is becoming more apparent.