Liverpool on brink

Liverpool on the brink off being knocked out of the champions league, we can only hope, but knowing their luck in this competition, i won't be jumping up and down yet.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article2734158.ece

Bolton get their man. And it's Megson, and i can't believe it, he has a history of players not liking him and not playing for him. And this is the man they think is going to keep them up, i can see another Charlton athletic here, i wouldn't put money on them staying up anyway.
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2198594,00.html

Music
Cold war kids - Robbers and cowards : I liked this more than i was expecting to, good catchy indie rock/pop.
Explosions in the sky - All of a sudden i miss everyone :This was a slow burner for me, you would think i would love instrumentals dominated by electric guitar, but i don't always. They were compared to mogwai in the reviews i read but it's more prog rock to me, and thats not a dirty word to me.
Sean lennon - Friendly fire : There is one track that screams of his dad, but mostly he seems to have his own sound and pretty good it is too.
Lee scratch Perry and the upsetters - Super ape : excellent
Modest mouse - Good news for people who love bad news : I decided to give them a listen after johnny marr joined for their last album, but decided to listen to the album before he appeared with them first. An excellent album with some surprisingly catchy tunes on it, can't wait to listen to the next one.
Radiohead - In rainbows : I paid £3 for my download, and it was well worth it, whilst it doesn't match in bends or OK computer, what does, two of the best rock albums ever, it still delivers. It sounds like the quieter moments on the last album to me. I wonder if we will ever get back to something like OK computer from them or whether they have been there done that.

Books
Garribaldi and the thousand by GM Trevelyan
A terrific read, it's amazing how great historical events can make fiction redundant. This was a real victory or death escapade, 1000 volunteers from all over Italy versus twenty thousand Bourbon troops defending sicily, including some professional foreign legions who if they had been used in an even half competent manner would surely have destroyed the red shirts. And who knows then, would we even have a unified Italy. The one thing that appears in all the books about Italian history i have read recently are the regional differences, or should i say the way the north look down on the south. I knew that this was the case even today, but it is fascinating to see how it came about and find out that it was probably even stronger then.



A few articles on the world economy, two by Hamish McRae of the indie
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/hamish_mcrae/article3090294.ece
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article3093816.ece
an article on the reaction from financial journalists to her book on disaster capitalism by Naomi Klein
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2198483,00.html
And finally one from a liberal blog,
http://cicerossongs.blogspot.com/
The one thing i have noticed reading some of the lib dem blogs is that unfortunately they seem to have forgotten that Keynes was a Liberal, i am not saying that he is wrong though.

How long before this is made into a film, ghoulish i know, but it will be
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2198264,00.html

Changes at the observer,
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article3093790.ece
Back to a more liberal outlook lets hope, the supplements are pretty good, but the meat of the paper has been way too Blairite.