The Wardman Wire

To mention it once again, I continue not to link to the Independent - since the hyperlinks which they broke when they redesigned their website continue to be broken, and I have received no response to requests for them to sort it out. I have added this paragraph to the Daily Roundup template.

Here is today’s roundup of stories.

Comment

Nick Cohen (Comment is Free) - The awful squeal of fundamentalism
Authoritarians seeking to extend repression have always drawn innocents into manufactured crises. None was more innocent than Jacques Barrot, who, in 2005, helped trigger a wave of death when he entered the Frrench annual pig squealing contest at the Pyrenean village of Trie-sur-Baïse.

Economist (Economist) - New Russia president - The name is Dmitry
His record is more mixed. A lawyer from St Petersburg, Mr Medvedev has been by Mr Putin’s side for most of his professional life, even running his presidential campaign. In 2000, when Mr Putin became president, his protégé became his deputy chief of staff, and later a deputy prime minister.

NYT (NYT) - The Office as Architectural Touchstone
How much longer can any of these postwar corporate centers — perfect embodiments of a moment in history when cities began to feel pestilential, when suburban flight grew easier on the interstates and when faith in America’s corporate power was unshakable — maintain the architecture and landscaping that made them such landmarks?

Telegraph (Telegraph) - St David’s Day: Top 10 Welsh links
Damian Noonan trawls the web for the best links into the red dragon’s lair

News

Gaby Hinscliff (Guardian) - Cameron vow on women ministers
Tory leader risks wrath of his MPs by pledging to give a third of senior government jobs to females

Dominic O’Connell (Times Online) - Pentagon tanker order brings British aerospace boom
BRITISH aerospace firms were celebrating an order bonanza this weekend, after EADS, the parent company of Airbus, won a $35 billion (£18 billion) Pentagon contract for tanker aircraft.

Times Online (Times Online) - Barnstorming Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet
As he jets across two key states whipping up the support that could finish off Hillary Clinton this week, the Democratic frontrunner is already mapping out a government of all the talents. Our writer joins him aboard Obama One

Scotland

John Knox (BBC) - Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble
The ancient art of witch-pricking is enjoying a revival in Holyrood.

BBC (BBC) - Adverts target organ donor rise
A TV advertising and poster campaign aimed at encouraging more people to donate their organs is to be launched by the Scottish Government.

BBC (BBC) - Smith rejects UK gun laws review
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has rejected Scottish Government calls for a review of firearms laws.

BBC (BBC) - Stephen makes partner plea to SNP
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Nicol Stephen has urged the Scottish Government to work with his party to scrap council tax.

Economist (Economist)

- From geeks to greens
Executives are switching in droves from the computer industry to clean-technology firms. Do they have what it takes to succeed?

Sport

David Walsh Chief sports writer (Times Online) - The Big Interview: Jonny Wilkinson
England’s star stand-off has cast off the demons that drove him to the top of the game – and to the depths of despair

Wales

BBC (BBC) - Tories celebrate their success
Do not expect any big policy announcements from the Welsh Conservatives at their conference in Llandudno this week - as they “celebrate their success”, as they like to put it.

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