Ferguson confident young charges can shine in Eternal City - Independent Online Edition > European

Ferguson confident young charges can shine in Eternal City - Independent Online Edition > European
It will be interesting to see how this goes, and very interesting to see how Rooney performs as captain. If he can curb his temper to a degree, not altogether, he definitely seems like captaincy material to me.

Led Zeppelin the reviews
http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article3229376.ece
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/livereviews/story/0,,2225612,00.html
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3031550.ece
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601364/led_zeppelin_the_full_report_from_david_fricke?source=music_news_rssfeed
It sounds like they have still got it

Billy Bragg has his say on the Morrissey-NME row
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2226081,00.htm
It sounds like he is not entirely convinced by Morrisey. I don't think he said anything racist, but i can't argue against Bragg when he accuses him off tyring to stifle free speech.

Jack Straw auditions for Jackanory
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/henry_porter/2007/12/what_jack_straw_forgot_to_mention.html
Some people seem to think he goes over the top over our civil liberties, i don't think you can ever be complacent regarding what were our ancestors hard won gift to us, which we seem to be so complacent about. There have been a couple of articles about people not voting, acting rationally over the last couple of days. This from Daniel Finkelstein was one
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article3036903.ece
And whilst i don't believe voting should be made compulsory. It is a pity people who don't vote, don't then have to spend a week, month or year even in a country where you are not allowed to vote. Of course our rotten system where too many votes do not count helps to spread the apathy that they are all the same. Another positive argument for proportional representation.

The Ukraine, a country where people won the right to vote, but the politicians seem to be trying their best to bring their trade into disrepute.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tomas_valasek/2007/12/its_orange_but_is_it_bright.html
I know there is an east west and Russian orthodox and catholic Ukrainian split, but a lot of the arguments over the last year seem to be more to do with oligarchs, money and ego's.

Things seem to be slowly but surely going downhill in the Lebanon
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3040575.ece
There are definitely no easy answers to this lands problems

Mortgages to take the strain says Hamish McRae in the indy
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/hamish_mcrae/article3244680.ece