Link Loving 10.02.11

• A year at war – the story of three soldiers in Afghanistan, by Catrin Einhorn.
• Peter Grier asks whether Reagan was a good President.
• Jereme Roos warns us that Europe is in crisis. How can we break through?
• The first half of this piece on the Today Programme is wonderful. ‘It was the young people that created the revolution. We didn’t help them at first – we were too scared, but now we are all part of it’.
• Paul Mason has twenty reasons why protests are kicking off all around the world. Spot on.
• Proof that the human body is capable of just about anything.
• Dorian Lynskey ponders on the poshification of pop music, and looks at the relationship between privilege and protest music.
• Thomas Friedman finds three things changing the Middle East; China, 20-year olds, and Twitter.
• The Today Programme reveals some of the logistical things to think about in a changing climate. Like the idea of phone networks going down…
• Andy Summer on why inequality matters for poverty reducation, and how it’s come back on to the global agenda.