Article - 1081 - Inacity Sell Manchester Tower Plan To Ballymore

Article - 1081 - Inacity Sell Manchester Tower Plan To Ballymore

Does this mean Manchester will regain the tallest tower outside of London once Leeds have overtaken Beetham tower. In other words is it going to get built now.

A good article in the independent about the Armenian genocide of 1915 by Robert Fisk, a veteran middle east journalist. I read his book about the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon of 1982, years ago now, but it tempered the sympathy I had at the time for Israel. The Armenian article didn't really tell me anything I didn't know, it was just interesting to read about it now, as Norman Stone the tory historian who now resides and works in Turkey was giving an interview a while back saying he thought it was arguable that it wasn't genocide.
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2901136.ece

After 9/11 nobody seemed to begrudge the yanks invading Afghanistan to try and crush Bin Laden and his Taliban protectors, but I was never so sure. Once a country is invaded, when do the occupiers leave and what are their objectives for going in anyway. I mean does anybody really believe the neocons invaded Iraq for anything other than oil. I am not totally against foreign intervention, I supported the intervention in the Balkans, because for me that was in our back yard, it could have spread and we understood the nationalities involved. Saying that it is still not totally resolved, Kossovo could still reignite at any time, especially with the Russians new found assertiveness in foreign affairs. The consensus seems to be Iraq, bad war, and we should get out, Afghanistan, good war, send the rest of our troops there. But is that really so, Simon Jenkins is one of an increasing number who think not.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2158005,00.html
When you think of all the wars the British empire fought there in the last century and then the disastrous Soviet invasion in 1979 and now add in to the brew, warlords actually having a rich natural resource (heroin) to fight for, and protect, I am not sure our presence will do any good in the long run unless we are going to pump billions into their economy to wean them off the poppy crop. And pigs might fly.

As we hear stories of another Russian oligarch probably landing on these shores after escaping from Putin's Russia, an article about accountants, and how they are yet another cog in the wheel as the rich get richer, and they don't come much richer than Russian ex oligarchs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2158599,00.html