The last days of a losing campaign…

No words, just pathetic…

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Sir Alex should mind his language sometimes

Sir Alex Ferguson is still at it on the Cristiano Ronaldo- Real Madrid case. Today he gave an interview to The Times in which he was simply out of order and if he had some decency left in him he should be apologising for his remarks.
Here is the quote I am talking about:
“What made it [...]

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Have a prejudice against asylum seekers? think again…

The tabloid press has been waging a campaign against asylum seekers in Britain for quite a while now. They might say that it isn’t against “genuine” asylum seekers it is aimed at, but nevertheless they have helped inhibit British society from what it is for most of these people a painful and certainly life-threatening experience.
News [...]

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Iceland: from boom to bust

The blog La moqueta verde has a very interesting post on the boom and bust of the Icelandic financial market.
The graph shows the sharp rise and sudden fall of the Icelandic OMX15 index, it’s just brutal.
From happiest nation in the world according to the UN just a year ago to a country shattered accepting a [...]

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Osborne’s big big mistake

For many inside the Westminster bubble the fact that there has been no resignation or institutional investigation in the Osborne/Deripaska affair meant the end of the story. Many think Osborne has been shaken and the Tories will actually be better off now that he has learnt a valuable lesson, never to get too cocky.
But those [...]

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What’s the point of the economic summit? Anyone?

The White House today announced the celebration of the economic summit in New York in mid-November. The G-20 countries are meeting up to design a new structure for capitalism. It definitely sounds glamorous, it sounds like a 21st century Bretton Woods.
But there are two key reasons  why this economic summit is complete rubbish.
The first reason [...]

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A redistributive Labour

The far left criticised New Labour for being too liberal, Cameron cannot stop repeating his ‘broken society’ soundbite…but today the OECD has published a report that shows that since 2000 the UK has reduced income inequality and poverty more than any other member of the organisation.
Needless to say there is still a long way to [...]

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With players like these…why doesn’t England have a basketball league?

Check out this video. NBA player Devin Harris ( he plays as point guard for the Nets) one of the rising stars of the game got humiliated at a London playground by British street player, Stuart Tanner.
Watch minute 1:32 just to see what the kid can do.

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More Forgesian Thinking on the BBC

If last week there was a quote from this blog in the BBC News website on the Labour conference, this week is on Cameron’s speech to the Tory one. You can read it here at 14.51.

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On the cabinet reshuffle

Gordon Brown has certainly regained the political initiative with today’s announcement of the return of Peter Mandelson to British politics. Wait for this weekend’s papers, one is going to feel like is back to 1998. So far surprise is the only feeling everyone can agree on the return of our very own ‘comeback kid’.
But moving [...]

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