Stephen Tall

Here’s today’s hand-picked selection that caught my interest…

• David Davies, Conservative MP: ‘I may well be wrong’ | Politics | The Guardian
  All you need to do is quote Tory MP David Davies really. As Decca Aitkenhead quite brilliantly shows http://bit.ly/Ukfdu1
• Sell: Cable, Umunna, IDS; Buy: sensible backbench Tories
  “The outlook for next year is hardly less gloomy.” @RafaelBehr keenly anticipates the 2013 political year http://buff.ly/Uk4hg5
• How the Olympics killed the killjoys | Tim Black| spiked
  ‘How the Olympics killed the killjoys’ | Tim Black http://buff.ly/VVYRUL OR how the Brits can do stuff when we really try (& spend LOADS)
• In 2013, can we call off the Culture Wars? | Brendan O’Neill| spiked
  If you don’t read Spiked you shd. If you agree with it all I’d worry. But still read it> 2013:call off the Culture Wars http://buff.ly/VVYsBD
• The timely death of The Killing | David Bowden| spiked
  I loved #forbrydelsen as much as the next guy, but @ThatDaveBowden has a point > The timely death of The Killing http://buff.ly/VVYfOQ
• Tim Harford — Article — A gift for the season that keeps on giving
  An economist writes: “it is not the gift but the act of giving that matters” http://buff.ly/VVX02g Gawd bless you @TimHarford this Xmas.
• Was 2012 the best year to be alive? | Rob Lyons| spiked
  Season cheer from Spiked (a unlikely source I realise) > Was 2012 the best year to be alive? http://bit.ly/VVV4GV
• BBC News – Christmas round-robin letters: The revenge
  Lynne Truss’s antidote to Xmas round-robin letters http://bbc.in/T9EcSc I think 6 variations on the theme was pushing it.