Thursday, March 13, 2008

Gary Neville gets another 70 minutes

For the reserves as his comeback effort continues. They lost 1-0 at Sunderland
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={B4CEE8FA-9A47-47BC-B069-3F7A2F35DB70}&newsid=540493
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/7293596.stm

Giggs says experience vital as we enter crunch time in the seasons silverware hunt
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_united/s/1040589_old_heads_vital_to_reds_giggs

Corruption case hanging over UEFA, what a surprise
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/03/13/sfnbon113.xml

Reaction to Yesterday's budget seemed to coalesce around the view that if he gets i his forecasts wrong we are in for some very rough times.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/12/budget.economics.comment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mr-darling-and-his-box-of-tricks-794990.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/budget_2008/article3542850.ece

The markets are in free fall again as the credit crunch looks set to take down more victims
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article3544604.ece
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3542723.ece
It looks like we are now watching the end of the United States 20th century financial hegemony that hasn't lasted long into the 21st.

GMP's chief may have killed himself as colourful private life exposed
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-chief-may-have-killed-himself-over-exposed-affairs-795001.html
Great to know the man in charge of your cities law and order was threatening other people's physical well being, and is still supposedly worthy of our admiration.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1040574_revealed_todds_secret_affair?rss=yes
I don't think this is going to do her career a lot of good

Austria in denial over Anscluss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/anschluss-and-austrias-guilty-conscience-795016.html
I'm not sure why, all the evidence shows they were not just willing Nazis, but that they were even more enthusiastic Nazis than the Germans themselves.

Johann Hari on American Liberals awakening to the reality of the Clinton's
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-what-wouldnt-clinton-do-to-secure-power-794923.html
Of course Christopher Hitchens had warned them, i remember watching some late night election special in 92 that had Hitchens on. There were various liberals, democrats and republicans on, and i think they were all dumbfounded how much he tore into them. But he has been proved absolutely right. Pity he got the Iraq war so wrong.

No comments: