Rooney back for Fulham

Good news, he has been missed
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=511880

Kaka to pip Ronaldo as Europe's best
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/12/01/sfnkak101.xml
Strange how it is assumed to be between Kaka and Ronaldo, but Messi would be right up there with them for me. Some of the goals he has scored for Barca over the last season have been sensational.

Blair's explosive legacy
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article3213028.ece
Whilst i do think much of this stems from the blairites shady way with party funding, it has gone way past that now. The whole upper echelons of the party are beginning to look rotten to the core. And incompetent as well as useless according to Matthew Parris
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article2980338.ece
And Paul Linfords take on the matter
http://linfordunlimited.blogspot.com/2007/12/curse-of-north.html

Vince Cable - cult leader
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article3213033.ece
I prefer politicians with hinterland as Denis Healey used to call it.

Meanwhile in the rest of the world the Chinese show why the Neo cons aren't the only funny farm candidates liberals should be looking over there shoulder at.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2980250.ece

And Russian liberals pin some of the blame for Putin on western double standards
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/anna_matveeva/2007/11/how_putin_will_manage.html
That's fair enough, when you look at the oligarchs roaming around the world with their ill gotten gains. They were definitely helped to get where they are today, by the atrocious advice the newly democratic Russia was given by the west, that saw it become a capitalist wild west in the nineties

Morrissey and the NME
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/11/jonze_nme_morrissey.html
Whilst you can totally disagree with his views on immigration, those views are not racist as far i am concerned. And i am not surprised he is not a happy bunny.

The Neocons begin to worry about Pakistan and it's nuclear capability
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2220126,00.html