Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

|| David Brooks on the mess conservatives are in || Report on violence in Iraq || Jim Hoagland on the spread of Islamic terrorism || Robert Gott says the US is undermining Venezuelan democracy || Bishakha De Sarkar on changing s*exual attitudes in India || Terence Kealey on bad science and childcare || Sean Gonzales uses modern cliches || MODERN MANNERS: Inside the men's room || Nicholas Hookway  on community and blogs || Report on the return of the push-rod engine    ||

"With best wishes for the future of the new Webdiary Community, The Daily Briefing will go on, resuming the life of the independent media service that it had previously. It would be great to have some of the Webdiary readers who have come to appreciate TDB join it as subscribers. If you go here you can sign up for a month's free trial of the daily email. Anyone who signs up for a free trial with some variation of the word "webdiary" as their password, or part of it, can have a three month free trial.Subscriptions cost $77 a year; or $55 if you supply another email address for someone who might also like a free trial. But anyone who uses a version of "webdiary" as their password can have a 12 months subscription for $44 - just sign up for 6 months at that price and your subscription will automatically be extended to 12 months." Wayne Sanderson

Whatever the future may hold for Webdiary and Margo, The Daily Briefing will go on, resuming the life of the independent media service that it had previously. Prior to entering into the agreement to publish TDB on Webdiary, it had been operating for 12 months on a subscription model, with subscribers receiving an email each morning.

It would be great to have some of the Webdiary readers who have come to appreciate TDB join it as subscribers. If you go here you can sign up for a month's free trial of the daily email. Anyone who signs up for a free trial with some variation of the word "webdiary" as their password, or part of it, can have a three month free trial.

Subscriptions cost $77 a year; or $55 if you supply another email address for someone who might also like a free trial. But anyone who uses a version of "webdiary" as their password can have a 12 months subscription for $44 - just sign up for 6 months at that price and your subscription will automatically be extended to 12 months.

The sudden demise of Webdiary has given cause for a few anxious moments over at TDB, so if you are interested to sign up, that would be much appreciated.

In the meantime, I have come to a loose arrangement with Hamish to continue to have a working relationship with Webdiary, if and when appropriate.

Wayne Sanderson

In today's TDB:
|| Steve Coll of the education of Osama bin Laden || David Crossland on Rice's failed European trip  || Report on the first climate change refugees || David Barash on C.P. Snow and two cultures || Carrie McLaren on advertising and subliminal seduction || MEDIA: Harper's after Lewis Lapham || Edward Wyatt on falling book sales || Gene Weingarten wonders 'what if ...?'    || Report on changing approaches to child rearing || THE REST: The spy who came back from the dead ||

|| Anne Perkins on new Tory leader, David Cameron    || George Monbiot says biodiesel is a problem, not a solution || Charlie Cooks on Bush's political dilemma  || Christopher Hitchens on buying favourable Iraq coverage  || Interview with George Packer re "The Assassins' Gate"  || Report on the pressure on traditional telcos  || Verlyn Klinkenborg on the season for lists || Calamity Jane, the Courtney Love of her day    || Katernine Seelye on making Wikipedia more accurate  || Anita Sethi confesses to being a Take That groupie  || Shane Warne on England's tour of Pakistan ||

|| Ellen Goodman on Vatican backsliding over gay priests  || Adam Cohen on the fight to commercialise Christmas || Zbigniew Brzezinski on linking communism and Islam  || MEDIA: Richard Beeston on bombing Aljazeera  || Camille Paglia on Madonna and disco critics || Jeremy Clarkson on the Bugatti Veyron  || JK Rowling on being down and out in Edinburgh || Catherine Seipp on the lack of modern manners  || "Bush was Right" ||

|| Ellen Goodman on Vatican backsliding over gay priests || Adam Cohen on the fight to commercialise Christmas || Zbigniew Brzezinski on linking communism and Islam || MEDIA: Richard Beeston on bombing Aljazeera || Camille Paglia on Madonna and disco critics || Jeremy Clarkson on the Bugatti Veyron || JK Rowling on being down and out in Edinburgh || Catherine Seipp on the lack of modern manners || "Bush was Right" ||

|| Ellen Goodman on Vatican backsliding over gay priests || Adam Cohen on the fight to commercialise Christmas || Zbigniew Brzezinski on linking communism and Islam || MEDIA: Richard Beeston on bombing Aljazeera || Camille Paglia on Madonna and disco critics || Jeremy Clarkson on the Bugatti Veyron || JK Rowling on being down and out in Edinburgh || Catherine Seipp on the lack of modern manners || "Bush was Right" ||

|| National round-up early edition ||

|| Timothy Garton Ash on Ayaan Hirsi Ali and free speech || Christopher Hitchens on reasons not to leave Iraq || Maureen Dowd on Cheney and WP in the morning || Jonathan S. Landay on the US paying for good Iraq news || Aljazeera staff website || Thomas Woods on militarism and Robert Nisbet || Meera Nanda on the rise of religious nationalism || Quirin Schiermeier on climate change and the Gulf Stream || Report on aging and life expectancy || Megan Davis on Warren Mundine and indigenous issues || Alexander Jung on the box that drives globalisation || Elizabeth Svoboda on nature, nurture and intelligence || Short story by Alice Munro || Report on the Pete Doherty-Kate Moss bust up ||

|| National round-up early edition || No extended edition today II

|| Louis Menand on false predictions and the experts who make them    || Seymour Hersh on Bush's religious fervour and Iraq  || Richard Cohen on the mistake of saying Iraq was a mistake  || Mats Engström on Europe's secret anti-terror debate     || John Aglionby on Indonesia and West Papua     || Nicholas Kristof on how to stop the Darfur genocide    || Suzanna Andrews profiles Arianna Huffington    || Michel Gelobter on civil rights and environmentalism    || Judith Warner on obnoxious kids and their parents  || MUSIC: The origins of Led Zeppelin  || Report on Kazakhstan's NYTimes response to Borat || Report on adding sound to the air guitar ||

|| Emily Bell on the end of the Murdoch era  || William Rees-Mogg on Google and book publishing  || Report on climate change plan from rainforest nations  || Interview with Jacqueline Rose: psychoanalysing Israel || Paul Krugman on Drucker and the age of anxiety || Report on increasing violence in Afghanistan  || Ellen Willis on Russell Jacoby and utopia  || Paul Boutin reviews a book debunking string theory || Report on entries for bad s*x writing award || Beyond Chutzpah  ||

|| Simon Jenkins on Aljazeera and Iraq leaks || Frank Rich on the lies behind the Iraq invasion || Column calls for action on violence against women in India || Nicholas Kristof on the genocide in Darfur    || Martin Kettle on making the US sane again    || Report on how the nuclear war was to be fought || Jenni Russell on skewed child-adult relationships || Germaine Greer on the George Best she knew || Report on blogger accepting the corporate dollar || Belle de Jour on the good s*x writing award || THE REST: Simon Hoggart on messages from abroad ||

|| Peter Botsman on Labor, party democracy and Whitlam || Report on US forces in Europe || Boris Johnson on Bush and Aljazeera/Daily Telegraph || Rob Reiner says neoliberalism causes crime || Report on the clash of cultures within the EU || Mark Steyn in support of Conrad Black || Sean Carroll reviews books on space and hidden dimensions || AC Grayling on humanism and religion || Report on Buy Nothing Day ||

|| Peter Botsman on Labor, party democracy and Whitlam || Report on US forces in Europe  || Boris Johnson on Bush and Aljazeera/Daily Telegraph || Rob Reiner says neoliberalism causes crime    || Report on the clash of cultures within the EU    || Mark Steyn in support of Conrad Black || Sean Carroll reviews books on space and hidden dimensions  || AC Grayling on humanism and religion    || Report on Buy Nothing Day    ||

|| Jonathan Freedland on stopping the growth in inequality || David Boyle on private affluence and public squalor || Magnus Linklatter says nuclear energy is no answer || Nicholas Kristof on Darfur  || Murray Waas says Bush knew no Saddam-Osama link  || Christopher Hitchens and the Iraq debate || David Bell on Voltaire, Rouseau and the enlightenment  || Nigel Bowen on the politics of post-boomer generations  || Report on a bio-recovery business    ||

|| Alan Kohler on gold and the crunch to come || Eugene Robinson on the mess Bush is in || George Monbiot on the illegal use of White Phosphorous || Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes inside Baghdad's hospitals || Investigation into the faulty evidence used for Iraq || Patrick Goldstein on end of mass movie going || Jack Shafer sees an ugly future for Google || Report on the affects of hypnosis on the brain || MUSIC: Sasha Frere-Jones on Damon Albarn  || The depiction of UFOs and aliens in cartoons ||

|| Laura Secor on Iran and its political dissidents || Josie Appleton on romantic lefties and Latin America  || Lee Epstein & Jeffrey Segal on how courts sway judges    || Report says UK will turn to nuclear power    || Michelle Goldberg on Christmas and the culture wars    || Pegoraro on buying a new computer  || Report on the fairies and the developer    || BOOKS: Brooklyn Follies By Paul Auster  ||

|| Scott McConnell on Rupert Murdoch's Iraq war || Frank Rich  says Iraq is lost and terrorism is winning    || Greg Sheridan's love letter to Donald Rumsfeld    || Guy Rundle on the terrorism beat-up    || Mahathir bin Mohamad on Islam's failings  || Nicholas Kristof on our collective responsibility for Darfur  || David Rieff on Bolivia's leftist leader, Evo Morales  || Robin McKie on climate changes in the Himalayas || Emily Bell on newspapers and the net    || William Boyd on the tale behind Shakespeare's sonnets || Helene Cooper on appreciating Bruce || ODDITIES: What people do in coffee shops ||

|| Timothy Garton Ash on the end of freedom in the West  || Frederick Kagan on the terrorism-communism connection  || David Brooks says Israel now ignores Palestinians  || George Will slams Bush and the Republicans  || Rami Khouri on religion in the Arab world || Jonathan Chait on changing political sides  || Michael Massing on the end of news  || Report say US will retain control of the net || Mary Ann Sieghart on the Christian pagans of Mexico  || Adam Gopnick on the life of CS Lewis || Catherine Bennett on her fight with Cherie Blair || One woman against Coke, triumphant || Town sells itself for satellite TV service ||

|| Ross Gittins responds to The Daily Briefing || Helene Cooper on the lot of Africa's women || Kevin Drum on Iran and Bush's credibility gap || Report on the use of white phosphorous in Fallujah || Dan Balz on the tide turning against Bush & Iraq || Matt Steinglass on the Zen response to terrorism || Ishtiaq Ahmed wonders if humans are united or estranged || Jack Shafer on how we'll know the boomers have moved on || Jon Pareles on Springsteen's 'Born to Run' box-set || 

|| Ross Gittins on vested interests and the terrorism scare || George Monbiot says the US used chemical weapons in Fallujah || Report on the increasingly deadly war in Afghanistan  || David Aaronovitch on Islamophobes and Paris burning || Report on the relocation of Burma's capital || Peter Singer on factory farming and avian flu || David Gessner on the environmental lessons of a simple life || David Vise on better understanding Google || Julie Burchill on marriage, children and castration || Daniel Radosh on Borat and the truth about Kazakhstan || Report on the renewed interest in 60's clssic rock ||

|| Gregg Bloche &  Jonathan Marks on the US and torture || David Corn on Ahmad Chalabi and Christopher Hitchens || Jonah Goldberg on the French riots || Margaret Drabble on Guantanamo Bay and tourism || Andrew Sorkin on the (possible) end of the buy-out bubble || Joseph Nocera on the impact of TimesSelect || MUSIC: William Dalrymple goes to Fes for music and Sufism || AC Grayling on libertines and the Earl of Rochester || Profile of Roger McGeough, a truly useless poet || BOOKS: John Banville's Booker-winning 'The Sea' ||

|| Bruce Lawrence on the writings of Osama bin Laden || Andrew Sullivan on freedom and terror || Christina Lamb on the murder of Afghani poet Nadia Anjuman || Salman Rushdie calls for action in Kashmir || Report on the drought and agricultural failure in Malawi || Transcript of Rove's speech to The Federalist Society || Daniel Callahan on health costs and facing death || Report on reaction to Fox News global warming report || Jonathon Jones on Dada and the truth about the 20th century ||

|| Boris Johnson on terror laws, the police and trumped-up charges    || Interview with Martin Shaw  || Reuel Marc Gerecht talks down the Plame affair    || David Gelln on Philip Rieff and the new barbarism    || Graham Stewart on the myth of Murdoch the dictator    || Mark Dowie on conservation's indigenous refugees    || Dana Millbank on big oil and influence    || Christopher Buckley on teaching ethics at the White House    || Juan Goytisolo  on his new autobiographical novel  || TECH: How to Google your dinner || Remembering the dismissal ||

|| Report on Western responses to terrorism  || Editorial says world can't afford a president this bad || George Monbiot says media hides Iraq war crimes || Robert Scheer on lies and Iraq war intelligence  || Christopher Hitchens on the failure to deal with Darfur || Report on subsidies and record US corn harvest  || Marc Kaufman on the Dalai Lama and science  || Germaine Greer says the Aboriginal art bubble has burst  || McKibben on the world's best city, Curitiba || Satire: John Kenny uncovers more letters from Harriet to George  ||