links for 2010-07-26

• The Joy of Six: Breathtaking one-twos
  The beautiful game, in one-twos.
  (tags: football sport guardian)
• UK Film Council to be abolished
  (tags: cuts coalition government art film)
• MLA says ‘stormy seas call for cool heads and steady hands'
  (tags: cuts coalition art)
• Guest post: Voluntary sector, social care and the Big Society
  David Kane has kindly hosted on his excellent blog a guest post I've written about the potential implications for the Big Society on voluntary sector provision in social care.
  (tags: socialcare bigsociety NCVO voluntarysector)
• The Spirit Level: Spooking the right
  "The titles of the anti-egalitarian studies – which refer variously to The Spirit Level's "delusion", "illusion" and its "false prophesy" – reveal the polemical intent."
  (tags: equality books theobserver)
• This coalition has yet to show us what it believes in
  I don't think this should come as a surprise. I happen to think the coalition does have a very specific ideology – essentially it's whatever the Tories believe – but I think they're hiding it under narrative of the public debt.
  (tags: coalition guardian)
• Rape charge anonymity pledge dropped after protests by MPs
  About the only bit of good news I've read about the coalition for a while.
  (tags: coalition guardian news)

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