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Cassilis is No More: A Paean to his Thoughtful Posting
According to cassilis.co.uk, Liam has hung up his keyboard.
If he has gone, it is a piccolo tragedy, as Cassilis was a distinctive and thoughtful voice in the blogosphere, and his Think Tank Roundup was one of the two or three most innovative initiatives of the last 12 months. It was also probably the only one that penetrated the big media space as elegantly as a knife in hot butter.
I’m hoping I’m wrong, but I’m not feeling optimistic.
A nagging voice says that he deserves to have been hired by the MSM. I wish him well.
Cassilis’ Think Tank Roundup … Friday 4th July 2008
A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Even although I’m now having to leave out as much as I’m putting in (see below) I’m conscious this is still quite a lengthy read (certainly by the standard of most blog posts). So each week I’ll flag a ‘must read’ item for those who don’t have the time to read the full post let alone the content it highlights - an entirely subjective choice on my part of course but I’ll endeavour to be as fair and non-partisan about that choice as I can. This week it has to be the Joseph Rowntree paper “A minimum income standard for Britain: What people think”, touching as it does on issues of relative v’s absolute poverty and making judgements about income levels needed to ‘participate in society’…
