Common Endeavour

• The Today Programme this morning had a wonderful piece of juxtaposition: the BMA chairman teetering on the brink of howling that the reason for the data sharing proposed in the Coroners and Justice Bill was down to the evil machinations of the police state, followed afterwards by a report that local authorities are having difficulty recruiting social workers following Baby P, where the lack of communication between agencies resulted in tragic consequences. Why, one might almost say the two stories are connected, eh?

• The Gord heads stateside to meet with St Barack;
• John Mann on LabourList explores the latest twists and turns in the ongoing saga that is Fred the Shred's pension entitlement (via Chris Paul);
• Don Paskini has two examples of Proper Labour;
• Conor's Commentary asks why a pad in a leafy suburb right next to a desirable school's gates is a fairer determinant of whether the child contained therein should get in than, well, a lottery;
• The ComRes poll for the Independent has us a mere 16 points behind the Bullingdon Massif. A mere 16 points!
• ... and the Daily Quail reports on the worrying news that red wine both causes and cures cancer. Dangerous times, comrades, dangerous times.

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