Shire Network News is the podcast of Silent Running , an Anglospheric group blog. You can contact the presenter, “Tom Paine”, here.

The feature interview this week is with Danish blogger Mikkels, who writes the blog Enough. He tells us what it’s like to be at the ground zero of a campaign of violent intimidation aimed at destroying the western right of free speech.

Andrew Ian Dodge in London has the latest on the bizzare stories swirling around the Lib-Dems, who used to be known as the party of beards and sandals, but lately as the party of beards and scandals.

Laurence Simon takes on the increasingly sclerotic and past-obsessed US civil rights movement, and makes me think of a Cadbury’s commercial. Uh, just listen, you’ll see why.

In Blog News, it’s all Danish cartoons, all the time!

Kathy Shaidle suggests a much more realistic name for the international Muslim Day of Anger, while Zombie discovers that the alleged “blasphemy” of depicting Mohammed may not be quite the offence it’s being portrayed as.

Samizdata suggests a “Buy-cott” of Danish goods, Judith Apter Klinghoffer shows us where we can buy Danish, and Silent Running has your “Support Denmark” t-shirst right here baby! You know you want one.

View from the Core is organising a Mohammed cartoon blogburst, with assistance from Michelle Malkin. A Muslim cleric who was given political asylum by Norway declares war on the country, regardless of whether he gets an apology, and CNN acts like a big girls blouse about showing the cartoons. They say it’s because they “respect” Islam. Like they show such respect, admiration and sensitivity towards Christianity?

And finally, Laurence Simon changes my mind, and I join calls for a full apology to Muslims for our western intolerance. The key to my change of heart? Let’s just say, location, location, location.