Not what the doctor ordered

With Hargreaves out for a month, now we have lost Carrick for a month,
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2183265,00.html

The FA : Piss up in a brewery springs to mind

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PQMNPCHLBMWWHQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/sport/2007/10/04/sfnins104.xml


Interesting piece about Manchester by Tristram Hunt, whose BBC 4 series the protestant revolution finished yesterday. I agreed with the thesis he put forward in that series, that the reformation heralded the onset of secularism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,2183046,00.html

An interview with Armando Ianucci in the guardian. I have usually loved the stuff he has done that he has wrote or directed, whilst the stuff he has presented has usually been ok but nothing out of the ordinary.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,,2183127,00.html

One of the musical greats, Neil Young

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,,2183127,00.html

Good piece by Timothy Garton Ash, taking the tories to task over there Euro sceptic hypocricy, although to be fair Gordon Brown seems to be infused with it too, in fact even the lib dems have a sprinkling now apparently. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2182978,00.html